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"When mental illness gets in the way of someone's ability to go about not just their day-to-day activities, but to actually do their job, it is as life-threatening and as severe as untreated diabetes [and] uncontrolled high blood pressure," Dr Jen Ashton, an American health correspondent, told Good Morning America in reaction to the news.