WHEREAS, severe mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, severe anxiety disorders, borderline personality disorder, and post traumatic stress disorders affect one in every five families annually; and

        WHEREAS, severe mental illnesses are more common than cancer, diabetes and heart disease and are the number one reason for hospital admissions nationwide; and

        WHEREAS, scientific research is producing tremendous breakthroughs in the understanding of mental illnesses, resulting in more effective treatments that allow people to reclaim full and productive lives;

        NOW THEREFORE, I, JAMES E. RISCH, Governor of the State of Idaho, do hereby proclaim October 6, 2006, to be

MENTAL ILLNESS AWARENESS DAY

in Idaho.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Idaho at the Capitol in Boise on this 6^th day of October in the year of our Lord two-thousand and six and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred thirty-first and of the Statehood of Idaho the one hundred seventeenth.

BEN YSURSA
SECRETARY OF STATE