i received my certification from the alliance of mental illness to become an arts antistigma peer to peer [speaker not understood] voice spokesperson. i received my certification two weeks ago for that. however, this is a family seat and the reason i'm here is not because of my battles with depression and my trying to deal with disability and all those issues. those actually brought to light my realization of how my family had not been dealing well with mental health issues. my father had bladder cancer for five years. after being basically told he was cured, a year later a spot showed up. two more years or somewhere around there of heavy duty of experimental key moe, 71 years old my father was angry and depressed, hated fighting and he finally gave up and i know he had a few more years in him if he he had gotten the right help ~. my mother, after she lost her husband of 50 years, went down hill very fast. she got very depressed. a lot of denial in my family about her situation. she died recently at 87 years old with severe dementia and depression. my younger sister, the first child,