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People with mental illness help each other

How can mentally ill people find work more easily or find the courage to take another step on the road to recovery? One answer is if they have the support of people who have been through something similar. The disability insurance office in Chur is the first in Switzerland to employ people to help in this way, those in the role are known as peers (SRF/swissinfo.ch).

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