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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. &#; A new partnership has formed across the aisle with the goal of ending the stigma that surrounds mental health problems like depression.

Reps. Genise Montecillo, D-St. Louis, and Keith Frederick, R-Rolla, announced their plan last week. Both Frederick and Montecillo have personal backgrounds dealing with these issues. Frederick, an orthopedic surgeon, has sought to highlight the struggles of medical students and teenagers at risk of committing suicide.

On the first day of the session, Montecillo spoke to the entire body about her own suicide attempt which happened last summer.

&#;It was extremely difficult,&#; she says of the experience. &#;If you had asked me six months ago, six weeks, or six days before I did it, I would have told you that I wouldn&#;t do it.&#;

However, she expressed her gratitude for a House that was all too ready to welcome her just after her attempt.

&#;I cannot emphasize enough how my colleagues&#; support has helped me,&#; Montecillo says. She adds that while she was still in the hospital that among family and friends she began to hear from her fellow representatives. &#;My son with tears streamed down his face, he just read the stories and letters and emails and calls from my colleagues and my constituents.&#;

She said well-wishes and prayers from the majority party also left a deep impact on her. The people she had done battle with on the House floor told her they wanted her back on the floor at veto session, and some sent multiple cards a week just to tell her she was in their prayers.

Frederick himself notes that this issue has no basis in partisanship and that he was looking forward to proposing legislation to raise awareness for mental health problems. Frederick is currently working on one bill called the &#;Show-Me Compassionate Medical Education Act,&#; which seeks to reduce the suicide rate and treat depression for medical students across the state.

&#;I believe the fact that Representative Montec

Missouri Rep. Genise Montecillo, D-Affton, has been on a singular mission for months to restrict access to certain police records, not because it’s in the public’s best interests but because it fits her personal agenda.

She wants the entire public kept in the dark whenever anyone in Missouri commits or attempts suicide. It’s a private matter and simply not the public’s business, she suggests. Except that it actually is the public’s business, especially when a person who attempts suicide is an elected official like Montecillo.

We don’t want to appear callous regarding the history of childhood abuse that contributed to Montecillo’s suicide attempt last year. But for her to assert that the public had no interest and no right to know about the near death of a state legislator is absurd. Continue&#;

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