With a little help from Baltimore?s Dorothy Hamill and actress Mariette Hartley, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine is trying to shed more light on mood disorders and bring them out of the closet.

Hamill and Hartley offered frank, often dramatic testimonies of their battles with depression, alcoholism and bipolar disorder during the 22nd Annual Mood Disorder Symposium on Tuesday.

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