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5/18/10

Embracing Diversity by Wallace Malay


In this article, written for Vancouver Island University's the Nav, Wallace Malay shares his experience as a post-secondary student with bipolar disorder (manic depressive).

“Suddenly I came to the realization that I am not ashamed of who I am, and that others were accepting of who I was also.”

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Wallace Malay is one of this year's Online Faces of Mental Illness.

1 comment:

  1. For diversity programs to be effective, we really need to push the benefits of diversity in order for people to fully embrace it. Awareness along is not enough.

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