Lisa Burlingame walks for her late husband, she walks for her family, and she walks for you.

“I felt so alone my entire life, and I don’t want anybody else to ever feel like that," she said. “If it means I have to relive and rehash my own story, then I will, because that could help someone recognize they don’t have to live alone, because that’s when the (bad) thoughts take over.

"If I can pull people out, I will pull them out,” the Covington resident said.

Burlingame and her family have signed up to do the NAMI Southeast Louisiana Mental Health Awareness Walk in Audubon Park Oct. 4. The walk helps provide funds to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, commonly called NAMI, to run programming that helps people with mental health needs.

“Too many people in our community are struggling

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