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Fighting the demons
Deseret Morning News
"My name is Jacob Short and I am 19 years old. I come from a great
family with a mom, dad, three sisters, three brothers, two
brothers-in-law, five nieces and a dog, Murfy. We are a close family and
do a lot together. I love to travel, camp, boat, water ski, and play
basketball and softball. I do everything all 19-year-olds do . . . and I
am bipolar."
What's Holding Up the Sandman?
New York Times
Millions of people are now taking sleeping pills without first exploring
the reasons for their sleep problems and possible nondrug routes to cure
them.
Patient's long-term denial delays treatment
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The Cincinnati Enquirer
Sometimes I feel like an evangelist selling a belief in the treatment of
mental illness as a way to salvation. Last week I felt like that when I
saw a man who first came to me 12 years ago.
Emma Brockes talks to photographer David LaChapelle
Guardian Unlimited
Photography: He is famous for taking pictures of half-naked celebrities
in surreal settings, but David LaChapelle insists his work is about
'creating a new reality'. He tells Emma Brockes about materialism,
bipolar disorder and
why cowl-necked sweaters should be banished.
About Teen Suicide
KidsHealth.org via Yahoo! News
When a teen commits suicide, everyone is affected. Family members,
friends, teammates, neighbors, and sometimes even those who didn't know
the person well may experience feelings of grief, confusion, guilt - and
the sense that if only they had done something differently, the suicide
could have been prevented. The reasons behind a teen's suicide or
attempted suicide are often complex.
Being Treated for Depression? Another State Bar Wants to Know
Law.com via Yahoo! Finance
Connecticut's Bar Examining Committee has re-introduced depression on
that state's bar application, which last sported the condition in 2000,
until public outcry led to its removal.
Being Treated for Depression? Another State Bar Wants to Know
Law.com
If Abraham Lincoln were alive, he would encounter several difficulties
gaining admittance to the Connecticut Bar -- assuming he deserved his
reputation both for honesty and for 'melancholia.'
Forum to highlight child illnesses
San Antonio Express News
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, depression and bipolar illness
will be explored.
Brainwave 'Music' May Soothe a Troubled Psyche
Fox News
If you suffer from depression, anxiety or insomnia, a new kind of
therapy that uses your own brainwaves could soothe your psyche.
Military offers online mental-health self-assessment
Stars and Stripes
WASHINGTON - Troops or family members who think they may have a stress
disorder, drinking problem or some other behavioral health issue can use
a new online tool to find advice.
DWI driver gets 50 years: Judge says a stiff term is needed in a
fatality to protect the world from a likely repeater.
News & Observer (Raleigh, NC); 4/25/2006
Byline: Eric Ferreri
Apr. 25--DURHAM -- He's not a ruthless, plotting criminal, but
Kenneth Wayne Maready is still too dangerous ever to go free, a Superior
Court judge said Monday in sentencing the convicted murderer to more
than 50 years in prison. A Durham County jury found Maready guilty last
week of second-degree murder, drunken driving and a large number of
other charges in the February 2005 death of Kay Stokes, 61. It was
Maready's seventh DWI conviction, and Judge Abraham Jones said he was
giving Maready, 42, a stiff sentence to protect the world from him.
"If he's ever released, there's a chance -- and not a small chance, a
big chance -- that he'll do this again," Jones said. "I don't think
there's a way to protect the public and not put him away." About 14
months ago, a drunken Maready stole a car, fled deputies and careened up
a country road at 70 mph before slamming into Stokes' pickup truck,
killing her. His blood alcohol content was 0.14, nearly twice the legal
limit. Maready's sentence carried a minimum of about 50 years to a more
than 60 years in prison. He didn't testify during his trial. In his only
public statement, Maready, who has hepatitis C, said Monday he expects
to die in prison. "I'll be lucky if I live five years anyway," he said.
Maready's criminal record stretches for pages, with previous felony
convictions for drugs, hit and run, and breaking and entering. Those
convictions were enough that the jury last week deemed him a "habitual
felon," a classification that opened the door for an unusually long
sentence. Maready, however, isn't the first Durham motorist to receive a
lengthy sentence stemming from a motor vehicle accident. In 2002, a
Durham Superior Court jury found Timothy Blackwell guilty of
second-degree murder and a number of other charges related to the crash
that killed 4-year-old Megan Elizabeth Dail in February 1997. He also
was sentenced to 50 years in prison. Blackwell had been convicted of
first-degree murder in 1998 and sentenced to life in prison. But in
December 2000, the state Supreme Court ruled that prosecutors couldn't
try drunken drivers for first-degree murder in fatal wrecks. Like
Maready, Blackwell had a long criminal record.
Monday, in pleading for leniency, Maready's attorney, Woody Vann,
entered several testimonials and other reports that shed some light on
Maready's life. Maready was born and raised in Durham. His father left
when Maready was a baby, and the resulting void has dogged Maready to
this day, his sister, Victoria, said in a statement submitted to the
court. He struggled with drugs and alcohol from an early age, suffered
from depression and bipolar disorder and was in and out of mental health
treatment. He dropped out of school in the eighth grade but earned his
high school equivalency degree while in prison, testified Gwen Johnson,
a mitigation specialist with Durham Sentencing Services, who has
interviewed Maready. He has done odd jobs, painting, plumbing and
carpentry, and most recently worked for his brother-in-law installing
Nextel phones, Johnson said. But he was never able to shake his problems
with drugs, alcohol and depression, problems Johnson attributed to his
lost relationship with his father. "While some people are able to shake
the hurts of their past and move on, it does not appear that Mr. Maready
is one of them," Johnson wrote in a report submitted to the court. Vann
cited Maready's troubled personal history in asking the court for
leniency in sentencing. "You have people who have seen the good in him,"
Vann said, urging Jones to allow Maready a "glimmer of hope" for
rehabilitation later in life. But Jones sided with prosecutor David
Saacks, who had asked the judge to impose a harsh penalty. In issuing
his sentence, Jones said Maready should continue substance abuse and
mental health counseling while in prison. "Sometimes people deserve life
[in prison] because they are mean and psychotic," Jones said. "This man
deserves life because he can't control himself."
Kay Stokes was Calvin Parrott's sister and, he recalled last week,
his best friend. Parrott, who attended every day of the trial, said
Maready's sentence, while appropriate, won't bring his sister back.
"It's a bittersweet verdict," he said. "Things will never be the
same."
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