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July 5, 2006

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Exposure to obstetric complications and subsequent development of ...
British Journal of Psychiatry (subscription) - UK
Email: j.scott{at}iop.kcl.ac.uk. Background Research has suggested an association between obstetric complications and bipolar disorder. ...

Pilot program shows PROMISE
NorthJersey.com
I hadn't heard from Don in eight months. But, whenever Don gets into trouble, he calls. Don, who suffers from bipolar disorder, was in the Bergen County Jail in Hackensack again. For a while, it looked like Don was going to turn things around. He had a job. He had friends. He was off drugs.

If you go
Wausau Daily Herald
Demolition derbies are not for the meek, but for veteran driver Steven Babcock, it helps to have an angel on your side. Babcock's niece, Gabrielle "Gabie" Malliett, died in January of a drug overdose suffered while she self-medicated for bipolar disorder, a manic-depressive illness.

Man sentenced to 30 years in woman's death
Daytona Beach News-Journal
DAYTONA BEACH -- A Deltona man who says he suffers from a bipolar illness was sentenced to 30 years in prison Monday for running over a prostitute.

A Prejudice That Kills
Washington Post
Lost at sea, an apparent suicide. The death of Philip Merrill, 72, should shake us out of our complacent stupor in the face of this leading killer. Because of his stature as a publisher and former diplomat, Merrill's disappearance and death dominated the news. How could this happen to a man known,...

House Subcommittee Hearing Discusses Research, Funding Parity For Mental Illness
Medical News TodayT
The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health on Wednesday held a hearing to discuss mental illness, its costs and the state of research into the issue, CQ HealthBeat reports. According to subcommittee Chair Rep. Nathan Deal (R-Ga).

Is the label worse than the illness?
Daily Telegraph
Just the diagnosis of manic depression can be a shattering event, one sufferer tells Cassandra Jardine.

Club owner acquitted in sexual assault case
Honolulu Advertiser
A Circuit Court jury needed less than 10 minutes yesterday to acquit nightclub owner Jack Law of charges that he gave a man a date-rape drug and sexually assaulted him at Law's home atop Sierra Drive last year.

Jury acquits Hula's Bar owner of rape charge
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
A Circuit Court jury took less than an hour yesterday to find local club owner Jack Law not guilty of charges he raped a 31-year-old acquaintance.

Bipolar Disorder Is Life-Altering Diagnosis
The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register
WHEELING - A life-changing illness has become a Wheeling woman's path to empowerment through helping others. Wheeling resident Penny Stenger, 58, has been coping with bipolar disorder for most of her life.

Can Kennedy crush stigma of mental illness?
The Cincinnati Enquirer PDT
Since his automobile crash in May, Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., revealed that he has bipolar disorder, the mental illness formerly known as manic depression.

Obesity Raises Risk Of Psychiatric Disorders
Medical News Today
People who are obese have a 25% higher risk of developing psychiatric disorders, such as depression, bipolar disorder and panic disorder, say researchers from Group Health Center for Health Studies, USA.

Feeling blue?Take the red pill
New York Daily News
Woke up this morning feeling chipper as Flipper, till I noticed a little quiz in an ad in Oprah magazine.

Sunnyvale woman trades in career to be foster parent
Contra Costa Times
Dawn Haddaway works around the clock taking care of other people's abused, abandoned and emotionally disturbed children. She comforts crack babies who cry all day and all night. She looks after kids who have violent outbursts, who cannot be left alone for a minute.

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There are many ways that I’ve tried to cope with having bipolar disorder, as I’m sure you have as well.

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