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May 19, 2006

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Black Dog Institute launches bipolar disorder website
ABC Online - Australia
A new Internet-based educational program has become available to help the thousands of Australians who suffer from bipolar disorder. ...

Mental health issues coming ‘out of shadows’
ChronicleHerald.ca - Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada
... health problem over the course of their lifetime and three per cent of Canadians are living with serious mental illnesses like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder ...

Bristol-Myers posts Abilify mania study
BusinessWeek - USA
... relapse. In a 161-person study, patients with Bipolar I Disorder were given either Abilify or a placebo for at least six weeks. ...

I Battle Bipolar Disorder
ChristianityToday.com - Carol Stream,IL,USA
... After all, wasn'tI one of the success stories? Diagnosed with bipolar disorder when I was 29, I'd weathered every mood swing without hospitalization. ...

I'm Bipolar Journal: December 2005-January 2006
About - News & Issues - New York,NY,USA
by Marcia Purse. Between December 9th and the 31st I raised my Seroquel dose in 25 to 50 mg increments from 50 to 200 mg, then dropped it back to 175. ...

Help for bipolar disorder sufferers
Hermanus Times - Hermanus,South Africa
Bipolar disorder (BD) is a debilitating disease that affects around 1 in 100 people, as well as their friends and families. If your ...

Protesters say budget plan hurts the poor
The Sacramento
Over the past few years, Leilani Luia's 11-year-old daughter has been diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Luia's daughter receives $672 in Supplementary Security Income each month. Luia receives an additional $555 from CalWORKs and $50 of child support.

Low-income residents battle governor over plan to stall cost-of-living bump to benefits
Contra Costa Times
Over the past few years, Leilani Luia's 11-year-old daughter has been diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Luia's daughter receives $672 in Supplementary Security Income each month. Luia receives an additional $555 from CalWORKs and $50 of child support.

Hospitalized husband says wife shredded his privates
Philadelphia Daily News
WITH THEIR wedding anniversary less than two weeks away, Howard Randolph was thinking romance. He hoped to take his wife, Monica, out for an intimate dinner and maybe an oldies-but-goodies show to celebrate 11 years of matrimony.

NAMI Warns Congress on NIMH Budget Cuts; Research 'Vitally Important' to Third-Generation Medicines and Recovery
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
The president of the National Alliance on Mental Illness today warned Congress that President Bush's proposed $9 million cut in the National Institute of Mental Health budget will erode progress in finding new treatments for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depression -- condemning millions of Americans to chronic disability.

Mentally ill forced to fight
Detroit News
In the 17 months after their son, Eddie, announced he was heading off to fight the war on terror, Margaret and Edward Brabazon of Bensalem, Pa., had held their breath.

Damage Control
Psychiatric Times
"Depression is the inability to construct a future." I spent the winter weekends of 2006 preparing 2 new series of lectures for our fourth-year psychiatry residents. One set of talks covered advanced psychopharmacology and the other set, humanities and psychiatry.

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'Bipolar Boy' tops awareness week
The Patriot-News - PennLive.com
A program by a comedian with bipolar disorder headlines the Mental Health Association of Lebanon County's observance of Mental Illness Awareness Week. ...

Treatment of Bipolar Illness: A Casebook for Clinicians and Patients
Am J Psychiatry (subscription)
Part III, "Pharmacology and Neurobiology of Bipolar Illness," is a review of fundamental issues on psychopharmacology and the causes and mechanisms of the ...

No free assessment for fraudster
Independent Online
A Western Cape fraudster failed on Wednesday to have himself sent to a State psychiatric hospital for free assessment for a bipolar mood disorder. ...

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