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December 7, 2005

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Researchers identify bipolar disorder in preschoolers
News from Washington University in St. Louis - Saint Louis,Washington,USA
... Louis have identified a small group of preschoolers who appear to suffer from bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness. ...

Family Sues Over Man Shot by Police
The Ledger - Lakeland,FL,USA
... lawsuit, filed last week in US District Court, seeks unspecified damages stemming from the March 13 shooting of 31-year-old Cesar Rada, who had bipolar disorder ...

Psychosocial Disability Fluctuates in Parallel with Bipolar Symptom Changes
Kansas City InfoZine Wed, 07 Dec 2005 4:11 AM PST
With every increase or decrease in depressive symptom severity, there is a corresponding significant and stepwise increase or decrease in psychosocial disability among patients with bipolar disorder, according to a study in the December issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

Abbott's Depakote(R) ER (Divalproex Sodium Extended-Release Tablets) Approved for Acute Manic or Mixed Episodes <http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/051207/nyw052.html?.v=34>
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance Wed, 07 Dec 2005 5:45 AM PST Abbott announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new indication for DepakoteR ER for the treatment of acute manic or mixed episodes associated with bipolar disorder, with or without psychotic features.

Mother files lawsuit over suicide in county prison
York Daily Record Wed, 07 Dec 2005 5:36 AM PST
A mother claims her son, 19, did not receive appropriate medical care. Dec 7, 2005 - A woman whose son, Michael Herman, 19, committed suicide in a solitary-confinement cell at York County Prison on Jan. 6, 2004, has filed a wrongful death and discrimination lawsuit in federal court.

Investigators detail scene of slayings
Brandenton.com Wed, 07 Dec 2005 5:17 AM PST
Editor's note: This report contains graphic details from the criminal investigation and may be offensive to some. The evidence collected suggests the brutality of the slayings.

UR student killed by ex-boyfriend
Richmond Times-Dispatch Tue, 06 Dec 2005 10:34 PM PST
"I am living in fear and I want it to end." De'Nora Hill's desperate plea came in a criminal complaint she filed a week before the person she most feared, former boyfriend Joe Casuccio, gunned her down Monday night.

DEBO TESTIFIES: A NORMAL DAY AND THEN...
Palladium Times Wed, 07 Dec 2005 3:05 AM PST
When Theresa Debo came back from walking her dogs the night she shot Richard Moore he started screaming at her, she testified Tuesday right before court adjourned for the day.

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Being the Ultimate Perfectionist

                                                           By Michele Soloway Sexton

I am the ultimate perfectionist.  Yes, me.  I even got a fortune cookie one time that said, "You have a yearning for perfection," do you believe that?"  Even Confucius knows it!

But it's a real battle for me.  I expect things from myself that I would never expect from anyone else, and it really messes with my bipolar disorder, because, well, no one's perfect, and no one can live with that kind of stress.

So I was talking to someone about it lately, and they told me, "It's ok to strive for perfection, as long as you don't expect to arrive at perfection."

It's ok to make mistakes.  That's what I've been learning.  If you don't learn that, you'll be bound up in fear (another thing that's bad for our bipolar disorder). 

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