Bipolar News for April 12, 2006

Bipolar News

April 12, 2006

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Bipolar Woman Sues Walgreens Over Pregnancy
CBS 4 - Miami,FL,USA
LAUDERDALE A woman who claims she got pregnant because a Walgreens pharmacy did not warn her that her bipolar medication decreases the effectiveness of her ...

Drug companies pushing anti-depressants
Life Style Extra - UK
... Prof Healy said: "No drug company is going to be interested in bipolar disorder, unless the prevalence of the disorder can be greatly increased. ...

Woman drowns in swimming pool
Miami Herald
A 64-year-old woman was found dead in a swimming pool behind a group home in Miramar on Saturday afternoon. Police haven't released the name of the woman who was in the group home at 8755 W. Long Acre Dr., with a caretaker and another resident at the time.

Fisher preaches responsibility, recovery
The Edmond Sun
EDMOND - A wild and comedic Carrie Fisher, a.k.a. Princess Leia to many middle-aged men, showed up Saturday at Sellers Event Center as the guest speaker for the Women's Health and Wellness Symposium, sponsored by Edmond Medical Center.

Unruly passengers are a sky-high pain
The Columbus Dispatch
Turbulence isn't always about the conditions outside an airplane. Last month, a plane was diverted to Port Columbus after a passenger attacked an offduty crew member during a flight from Cleveland to Cincinnati,
authorities said.

Walking out of darkness to help fight suicide
Inside Bay Area
LOOKING BACK, Jessica Little says she had felt sad and listless - in short, depressed - for years before the day she opened a bulk-size bottle of Advil and popped every little brown pill.

Family ponders prevention after son's suicide
Billings Gazette
The Jan. 19 obituary in The Billings Gazette for 15-year-old Austin Jay Hammer refers to his life as a "constant adventure" filled with miracles. But there weren't enough miracles to convince him not to kill himself two
days earlier after a particular ...

Program to explore manic depression
The News Journal
Andy Behrman's life was once a dizzying whirl of frenetic activity, followed by periods of deep depression.

College Can Complicate Bipolar Disorder
The Village Voice
College Can Complicate Bipolar Disorder (By John Giuffo)

Our crazy mental health system
Salon.com
A crusading journalist with a bipolar son says jails have become warehouses for the mad -- and argues for forced commitment.

Drug firms encourage manic depression, says academic
NewsWales
Drug companies are in danger of creating an epidemic of bipolar disorder (manic depressive illness) in order to boost sales of mood stabiliser drugs, an academic from Cardiff University will argue at a conference this week.

Group homes get stiffer rules
The Charlotte Observer
Some of North Carolina's most vulnerable children will receive safer homes and better mental health treatment, thanks to the correction of a nearly five-year-old mistake that placed them at risk and cost the state millions.

Behavioral therapy helps mentally ill drug addicts
Reuters via Yahoo! News
Drug-addicted patients with severe, persistent mental illness respond well to a new behavioral approach that involves social skills training and motivational interviewing, as well as mandatory urine checks, research
suggests.

Experts urge you to take charge of your meds
NorthJersey.com
Your medicine cabinet is full of prescription drugs (new and old), bottles of painkillers, cold medicines and that natural herb remedy you tried during your hippie days.

This Week's Bipolar News

Most important things we can give: love, time
BizJournals
Dr. Paul Keck Jr. is president and CEO of the $28 million, 64-bed Lindner Center of Hope in Mason and executive vice chairman and Lindner Professor of Psychiatry & Neuroscience in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. A graduate of Dartmouth College and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Keck is an expert in bipolar disorder and has published more ...

Discrimination at Work
About - News Issues
... is really disturbing that an employer could be so crass. Have you told your employer about having bipolar disorder? What has your experience been with this?

Bipolar mom is too much for hard-pressed couple
The Standard-Times
Dear Annie: Three months ago, my husband and I accompanied my 71-year-old mother to our home in California. She was released to my care because the authorities in Pennsylvania felt she could no longer manage on her own. She has a history of mental...

Man gets 30 years for murdering mother
Naperville Sun
Cliff Newcomer suffers from bipolar disorder, the release said. The mangled body of Marilyn Newcomer, 55, was discovered about 11:45 pm on Jan. ...

Many Famous People Suffer With Bipolar Disorder
Corsavoo.com
Writers have been some of the most famous people with bipolar disorder. Mark Twain was one such writer. He, like many other writers, was highly functional ...

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Why People with Bipolar Disorder
Don't Take Their Medications

The word used to describe not taking your medications is called "noncompliance." When you are noncompliant with your medications, you could be causing great danger to yourself (and possibly others), and it could even be fatal.

Studies show that roughly 25 percent of medications are not taken as prescribed. As far as psychiatric medications, this number is doubled. With bipolar disorder, one in two patients will stop their medication in the first 12 months of treatment; usually because they will experiment with their dosage and/or go off their medication altogether (many because they enjoy their manic "highs"). Click here to read the entire article.

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