April 16, 2024

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| 7/27/2016

" They say you can’t solve a problem by throwing money at it. But yes, you can. Look at AIDS. "

-- Dr. Charles B. Nemeroff, chairman of the psychiatry department at UHealth — University of Miami Health System

With seven suicides in her family — including those of her writer grandfather Ernest and her supermodel sister Margaux — Mariel Hemingway hasn’t just been affected by depression and suicide. She has been besieged by it.

This history is why the actress, the youngest daughter of Ernest Hemingway’s son Jack and famous for such films as “Manhattan,” “Personal Best,” “Star 80” and “The Mean Season,” has spent the last several years speaking as a mental health and wellness advocate.

“I started to realize I had a great understanding of the whole space,” says Hemingway, who was in South Florida recently to speak at State of Recovery 2016, a conference held at the Diplomat Resort & Spa in Hollywood on behavioral health care.

Read more at the Miami Herald.

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