LIBERTY TWP., Ohio — Jannah Gilbert calls her sister to ask for old family pictures. The woman on the other end of the phone immediately asks why, and when Gilbert tells her she’s doing a television interview about mental health there’s an audible sigh.

“Girl bye,” her sister says.

Gilbert hangs up and looks at me.

“See what I’m saying?”

Gilbert said she's been trying to get some of her family to seek help. She tells us she needed mental health guidance years before asking for it.

A few minutes later, she pulls out her phone and opens a text message. It's a family photo. Gilbert’s mother was white, barely tall enough to come up to her shoulders. Her dad was Black. The family grew up in Texas, and Gilbert tells me she was always asked if she was adopted.

That compounded the tough lo

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