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November 15, 2005

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Cognitive style in bipolar disorder
British Journal of Psychiatry (subscription) - UK
... bham.ac.uk. Background Abnormalities of cognitive style in bipolar disorder are of both clinical and theoretical importance. Aims To ...

Lithium Placental Passage and Obstetrical Outcome: Implications ...
Am J Psychiatry (subscription) - USA
... The management of bipolar disorder during pregnancy remains one of the most daunting challenges of psychiatric practice. Although ...

Woman a minister after bipolar bout
Tri-Valley Herald - Pleasanton,CA,USA
... Although she had no idea at the time, it was the beginning of an eight-year struggle with bipolar disorder, a psychological condition that causes extreme ...

Staying Vigilant, When Troubles Run in the Family
New York Times Fri, 11 Nov 2005 5:48 PM PST
Sally Kilkenny said awareness is necessary to help prevent more tragedies like those she has endured.

Portrait of a troubled man emerges as border shooting inquest nears <
Great Falls Tribune Sat, 12 Nov 2005 4:09 AM PST
The mother of the Illinois man killed last month by U.S. border agents north of Cut Bank said she's frustrated by the lack of public information about her son's death.

Men's depression often overlooked
Salinas Californian Sat, 12 Nov 2005 5:12 AM PST
You might call it melancholy on steroids - a muscular mixture of fast-driving, heavy drinking, hard-charging cussedness. For perhaps 3 million American men yearly, that's the plotline for depression.

Program addresses danger of prescription drug abuse
Wisconsin State Journal Fri, 11 Nov 2005 11:17 PM PST
"There is no single profile of someone who abuses prescription drugs. There is no set stereotype." And Catherine Zdeblick should know.

Mental Health Patients May Lose Housing Options
RedNova Fri, 11 Nov 2005 10:59 AM PST
By Benjamin Shors, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. Nov.

Bipolar is not a punchline
Lancaster Online Sat, 12 Nov 2005 8:52 PM PST
Mike Sanchez openly bills himself as the bipolar comic. It's his way of
battling the stigma he believes is still attached to mental illness.

Letting out the demons
Seattle Times Sun, 13 Nov 2005 0:20 AM PST
You might call it melancholy on steroids - a muscular mixture of fast-driving, heavy drinking, hard-charging cussedness. For perhaps 3
million...

Mental illness, drug abuse common 
Honolulu Advertiser Sun, 13 Nov 2005 6:31 AM PST
A shirtless young man wearing long basketball shorts darts into the
intersection of Kamehameha Highway and Waimano Home Road.

The science of happiness
Orlando Sentinel Sun, 13 Nov 2005 1:20 AM PST
One of the happiest people you'll ever meet is 20-year-old Yara Zamora, the daughter of a Mexican immigrant who works in the plant nurseries of Apopka. She lives with her parents, older sister and her sister's three children; has autoimmune hepatitis and lupus; and in February was diagnosed with kidney failure.

When a Family Matter Turns Into a Business
KTLA 5 Sun, 13 Nov 2005 0:39 AM PST
Conservators are supposed to protect the elderly and infirm. But some neglect their clients, isolate them -- even plunder their assets.

Positive aspects of bipolar disorder
News-Medical-Net Mon, 14 Nov 2005 0:38 AM PST
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have shown for the first time that a sample of children who either have or are at high risk for bipolar disorder score higher on a creativity index than healthy children.

Bright light therapy may aid patients with depressive and bipolar disorders
News-Medical-Net Mon, 14 Nov 2005 0:53 AM PST
A report in the November Cell Metabolism reveals powerful effects of light on the adrenal glands, a finding that might explain the broad benefits of bright light therapy for a variety of conditions, including sleep and depressive disorders, according to researchers.

Bill Would Add Therapists to Medicare 
AP via Yahoo! News Sun, 13 Nov 2005 11:01 PM PST
In rural states, older residents often have a hard time finding care for mental health problems. Wyoming, for instance, has 200 square miles forevery Medicare provider eligible to treat mental illness.

The healing path from mental illness
http://local.lancasteronline.com/4/18594
Lancaster Online Mon, 14 Nov 2005 6:53 AM PST
Seventeen years ago, Bob Forrey really couldn't tell if the police officers who had just arrested him for starting a fire in the Griest building were angels or demons. He was pretty sure he was dead, though, and in hell afterthrowing himself off a building.

Texas woman receives 20 years for fatal beating
Orlando Sentinel Tue, 15 Nov 2005 5:03 AM PST
A 20-year-old Texas woman was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison for her role in the 2003 robbery and beating death of a 36-year-old Holly Hill man.

'Cool Mom' Gets 30 Years In Prison
The Jackson Channel Tue, 15 Nov 2005 5:20 AM PST
An Arvada mother who said she wanted to be a 'cool mom' was sentenced Monday for providing sex and alcohol to minors.

Jail suicide policies defended
Cincinnati Enquirer Tue, 15 Nov 2005 2:42 AM PST
LEBANON - Investigations into two suicides within days at the Warren County Jail in September concluded that corrections officers followed proper safeguards. Neither inmate showed any obvious signs that they intended to harm themselves, a sheriff's report said.

Valerie's story: Life with Schizoaffective Disorder
Fort Frances Times Tue, 15 Nov 2005 7:24 AM PST
The story you are about to read is true, the name has been changed to protect the privacy of those involved. Valerie, a 43-year-old woman from Fort Frances, agreed to be interviewed for the purpose of sharing her story of life with schizoaffective disorder.

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TAKE ACTION!

I received an email from a person the other day. She asked me why so many great successful people, leaders, business people, etc. have Bipolar Disorder. I have long had a theory (but I don't have any kind of study to point to which would prove my theory). Here's what I think, though:

In order for you to start something, whatever it is: open a daycare center, write a book, build a website, go to college, discover the cure for cancer, create world peace – you have to do something really important. Know what it is?

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Violence and Bipolar Disorder

Never forget that violence is many times associated with a bipolar manic episode, so if your loved one is showing signs of violence, you need to be prepared.

Kay Redfield Jamison writes of the "dark, fierce and damaging energy" of mania, and those with bipolar depression may threaten suicide or even carry through with it.

If your loved one has what the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Illnesses (DSM-IV), (the "psychiatric bible" put out by the American Psychiatric Association), calls "suicidal ideologies – one of the symptoms of bipolar disorder – get them help immediately.

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