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She picked the wrong guy. He beat her. She wanted to run but her boyfriend’s links to organized crime meant that nowhere in her country was safe. In desperation she fled to Canada and applied for refugee status. But while the abuse is behind her, the effects haunt her still.
A woman pleads with the judge as she is ushered into the prisoner’s box in courtroom 8. 
Sean Liliani, Centretown News Courtroom 8 at the Elgin Street courthouse opened in early 2007 and runs three days a week. It has offered mental health services and rehabilitation to those in need who pass through the justice system.
Lewis Perelmutter spent close to a decade brimming with anger and frustration as he struggled to care for his ailing wife. It wasn’t until after she died that he realized the stress almost killed him, too. 
Radka ZÃtková, Centretown News Lewis Perelmutter looks at his late wife in a family picture. Perelmutter struggled with stress and exhaustion from caring for his wife, who became depressed while living with Parkinson's disease.
Mental illness among seniors is often misunderstood by family and friends, but it’s also under-diagnosed by doctors, says one expert.