Pocono Medical Center is offering several opportunities for those who are suffering from mental or behavioral health issues to find help during Mental Health Week, this week.

Several screenings and events are scheduled.Behavioral health professionals will be available to help combat the disease and provide resources to those who are so dearly in need.Thursday is National Depression Screening Day.Ask yourself: Are you sad? Do you feel empty? Do you have sleeping problems? Weight problems? Do you find you don't enjoy anything anymore? Are you irritable and restless? You can't concentrate? Have no energy? Feel you can't go on?If you answer "yes" to these questions, consider going to one of PMC's 15-20 minute free depression screenings with a behavioral health professional:Today, 1-6 p.m., Pocono Community Church, 1050 Memorial Blvd., Tobyhanna; 1-6 p.m. Wednesday, Western Pocono Community Library, 2000 Pilgrim Way, Brodheadsville; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday, PMC Stroud and Brodhead, 206 East Brown St., East Stroudsburg; 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Friday Dingmans Medical, 1592 Route 739 Suite 1, Dingman's Ferry.Appointments are suggested but walk-ins are welcome.To

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events@poconomedicalcenter.org.At 7 p.m., Wednesday, Oct 15, Pete Earley, journalist and author of "Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness" will be at the Niedbala Auditorium in the Hoeffner Science and Technology Center at East Stroudsburg University.There will be a free movie showing of the "Reign Over Me," 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Pocono Community Theater, 88 S. Courtland St., East Stroudsburg.A discussion and Q & A will follow the movies. To

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events@poconomedicalcenter.org.