Bipolar News for May 22, 2006

Bipolar News

May 22, 2006

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Heart disease, bipolar link surprises docs
Toronto Sun - Canada
Cardiovascular disease, not suicide, is the leading factor in cutting short life expectancy of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder sufferers by five to 15 years ...

Hunt breaks down on air
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... would stand by him. She revealed she suffers from bipolar, which had placed pressure on the couple's relationship. Hunt said today ...

Support groups: how to make the most of them
Elmira Star-Gazette - Elmira,NY,USA
... In a bipolar support group, people freely talk about the medications they are taking, the side effects they experience, and the benefits or lack thereof. ...

Man held in woman's plunge at CHA faces assault charges
Chicago Tribune
Parolee allegedly says he watched her jump The last man seen with a California woman who plunged from the seventh floor of a CHA high-rise early last week was charged Friday with attacking and restraining her.

Borderline Personality Disorder: An Overview
Psychiatric Times
By John M. Oldham, M.D. Although the term borderline has been in clinical use since the late 1930s, it only became an official Axis II diagnosis in 1980 with the publication of DSM-III . Currently, DSM-IV-TR emphasizes that patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) show a "instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity beginning by early

ASSESSING THE PSYCHIATRIC HEALTH OF U.S. PRESIDENTS
David Shribman via Yahoo! News
James Madison, John Quincy Adams and Franklin Pierce all suffered from major depressive disorders. Theodore Roosevelt was bipolar. So, too, was Lyndon Johnson. Woodrow Wilson suffered from a generalized anxiety disorder. If only we knew then what we think we know now.

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.

Study identifies predictors of bipolar disorder risk
EurekAlert!
Toronto, Canada, May 22, 2006 - A new study presented today at the 159th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in Toronto, Canada identified five predictors for bipolar disorder risk in patients who have been unsuccessfully treated with antidepressants.

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Mental-health resource centre saluted
The Province
Nine years ago, when her then-10-year-old son became suicidal and was eventually diagnosed with bipolar disorder, Anderson said she would spend the greater ...

Unique Collaborative Alliance Prepares to Launch a Performance ...
RedOrbit
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Institute for Johns Hopkins Nursing, the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA), ...

'Voices' arsonist gets prison
Albany Times Union
Schenectady man faces up to 16- year term in torching of two buildings SCHENECTADY -- A city man whose attorney said he struggled with voices commanding him to set fires will spend up to 16 years in state prison for a pair of arsons. Justin Swint, 19, acknowledged to Schenectady County Judge Karen Drago during sentencing Tuesday morning that he is on medication for being bipolar and ...

Months after teen's suicide, 'Yolanda's Law' advances
Boston Globe
Nicknamed "Yolanda's Law" after a Plymouth teenager who eloquently testified before legislators about her struggles with bipolar disorder, a bill aimed at improving mental health care for an estimated 100,000 Massachusetts children now awaits Governor Deval Patrick's signature.

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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:

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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 â€“ one of the symptoms of bipolar disorder â€“ get them help immediately.

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