The price of mental health: 'I'd rather be sad'

After a childhood filled with periods of intense therapy, Alex, a 27-year-old New Yorker with a career in theatre, doesn’t expect to go back

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By the time Alex turned 18, he couldn’t remember a time when he hadn’t been on medication or in therapy.