David Romano is a graduate of the College of St. Scholastica, a social worker at Amberwing, and a person with depression. He says opening up conversations about mental illness might have made a difference to the Germanwings pilot who may have deliberately crashed a passenger plane last week. Plus he says his bike ride across America will be scary and difficult - much like mental illness itself.
3/31 Cross country bike ride "a metaphor for mental illness"
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