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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
Damon Cronshaw

More than 100,000 in Hunter in distress: mental health epidemic

NSW Mental Health Minister Rose Jackson. Picture by Simone De Peak

About 120,000 people in the Hunter region live with "high levels of psychological distress", a new mental health report shows.

Furthermore, about 18,000 people in the region aged 25 to 64 live with a severe mental illness.

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