Bipolar News for August 8, 2006

Bipolar News

August 8, 2006

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How It Feels to Have Bipolar Disorder
About - News & Issues - New York,NY,USA
Just the other day, I was waiting for test results to come back for a test I had taken. However, they did not come back immediately like they were supposed to. ...

Bipolar Blues
About - News & Issues - New York,NY,USA
... I mean, don't they know that those of us with bipolar disorder who take no less than two mood stabilizers have tried everything short of carving off the weight ...

A brief and troubled life
The Columbian - Vancouver,WA,USA
... toy store. They lunched at McDonald's. And they stopped at the pharmacy for medications to treat his bipolar disorder. A growing ...

Death by disproportion
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... statement," but the world couldn't be less interested in his statement, not compared to his lawyer's statement that he's suffering from "bipolar disorder." And ...

Brain's "gambling Circuitry" Identified
Medical News Today (press release) - UK
... and experimental method could help in understanding and perhaps treating aberrant risk-taking in disorders including gambling addiction, bipolar disorders, and ...

Accelerating the hunt for bipolar disorder genes:
WebWire (press release) - Atlanta,GA,USA
August 7, 2006, ANN ARBOR, MI – For the 5.7 million Americans who have bipolar disorder, the manic “highs” and the deep depressed “lows” they ...

Loving Someone With Bipolar Disorder
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Fast, a health writer diagnosed with bipolar illness and clinical psychologist Preston are ideal companions. Their innovative ideas ...

Driving away the demons
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
The words had been forming in her mouth for years, but Jane Novak had never been able to speak them. Maybe it was denial. Maybe it was because people didn’t broach the subject, not in those days.

Home genetic test for schizophrenia
Philly.com
Nearly 1 percent of all Americans, 2.4 million people, have schizophrenia. An estimated 5.7 million have bipolar disorder. And 2.2 million adults have obsessive-compulsive disorder.

A brief and troubled life
The Columbian
RIDGEFIELD -- Six-year-old Bailey Schlentz spent his last day alive trying to be a good boy. His mother, Holly, took him to spend his tooth fairy money at a toy store. They lunched at McDonald's. And they stopped at the pharmacy for medications to treat his bipolar disorder.

New Venture Will Accelerate the Hunt for Bipolar Disorder Genes
Newswise
The search for the genetic underpinnings of bipolar disorder is accelerating, with a new joint project at the Univ. of Michigan and Johns Hopkins U. Funded by a donor who lost her husband to suicide after a long struggle with bipolar, the project will combine existing DNA repositories and seek more genetic samples from patients and their families.

Fat Chance
Washington Post
The Finding Obesity appears to increase the risk for some mental illnesses, including mood disorders (such as depression and bipolar disorder) and anxiety disorders (such as panic and generalized anxiety disorder), finds a study in last month's Archives of General Psychiatry. But it may decrease the...

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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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