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October 12, 2006

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Man Enters Insanity Plea In Mother's Death
CBS 5 - Green Bay - WI
... Prosecutors have said Lee was on medication for bipolar disorder at the time of his arrest, and he told investigators he spilled his medication on the floor ...

Sample Jet's new album, 'Shine On'
The Spartan Daily - San Jose,CA,USA
... But delve deeper and you suddenly find yourself at the mercy of an album that has symptoms similar to that of a person with bipolar disorder. ...

Diary of a bipolar survivor
NorthJersey.com - Hackensack,NJ,USA
... testimonial -- full title, "Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania" -- does something that's rarely accomplished in film: Depict people with bipolar, schizophrenia and ...

Mastering the voices inside his head
Stuff
"You led me into sin," spits the Catholic priest. "You deserve to burn in hell." The voice continues to accuse, jabbing the finger of blame at the man he repeatedly sexually abused as a youngster.

Singer brings message of mental health
Athens Review Online
BY KEVIN PURDY NIAGARA GAZETTE (NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y.) NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. - Judy Eron is not afraid to talk about the moments in her life that most people would probably spend a lifetime trying to avoid discussing.

Group Supports People Dealing With Depression, Bipolar Disorder
RedNova
By Sonya Padgett By SONYA PADGETT REVIEW-JOURNAL When Cheryl Murphy's daughter was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at the age of 10, she looked in vain for community support.

Diary of a bipolar survivor
NorthJersey.com T
A few years ago, Hollywood wouldn't film a story about mental illness or electroshock therapy that didn't draw a chuckle or a feeling of fear from the audience.

Experts want to rename schizophrenia
Reuters via Yahoo! News
Mental health experts called on Monday for the term schizophrenia to be dropped, saying it has no scientific validity, is imprecise and stigmatizing.

SUICIDE ATTEMPTS DROVE MY FAMILY TO DESPAIR
Daily Record
SOCIAL care worker Eleanor Trebilcock became depressed when her first marriage ended. It wasn't long before she tried to take her life. She said: "My marriage had been quite physically and mentally challenging and I was left with really low self-esteem and a huge lack of self-confidence.

Working Out Too Much Leads to Disease for U. Minnesota Student

From: U-WIRE | Date: October 10, 2006
U-WIRE

By Elizabeth Cook
Minnesota Daily ( U. Minnesota )

(U-WIRE) MINNEAPOLIS -- For Dan Glapa, it started in seventh grade. At first it was just an interest in working out and eating healthfully, said the genetics, cell biology and development sophomore. Soon, working out and restrictive eating spiraled out of control. By high school, Dan spent four to six hours a day working out. According to the National Eating Disorder Information Centre, compulsive exercising, also known as anorexia athletica, is a condition in which someone overexercises because they think it will control the way their body looks and give them a sense of power and self-respect. Although the University of Minnesota doesn't have long-term facilities to treat eating disorders, campus medical professionals offer resources and send students to local treatment centers. From seventh grade to his junior year of high school, Dan went from wanting to be healthy to not eating at all. He would binge and purge while exercising hours a day. Dan, who always had good grades, said that by his junior year, the gym was more important than school. "Now I was skipping classes so I could go to the gym," he said. Dan said he would arrive at the YMCA at 5:30 a.m. and spend up to two and a half hours on an elliptical machine. Then he would go to school, sometimes late, and work out on the wrestlers' equipment while the other students ate lunch. After school he would go back to the gym and work out for two more hours. Dan said other days he would call in sick to school just so he could do his workout routine. Around this same time, gym staff members became concerned by his constant presence and contacted his parents to make sure they knew, he said. Lisa Lemler, assistant director for programs at the University recreation center, said dealing with eating disorders, specifically anorexia athletica, is difficult. One of the biggest barriers preventing interjection is privacy, Lemler said. It's also hard to know exactly why a student would enter the building twice in a day, because the center includes a deli and study area, she said. Lemler said there have been concerns about excessive exercising. When this happens, center employees work with Boynton Health Service and the Services for Teenagers at Risk Center, which has a program for weight management and eating disorders in the McNamara Alumni Center. "We try to address it with the networks on campus," she said. Staff members at the recreation center also are trained in nutrition and signs of eating disorders, she said. When Dan was obsessed with working out, he once received a speeding ticket because he was in such a rush to get to the gym and school. High school officials also noticed a problem and had a social worker contact his family. Treatment at the Waukesha Memorial Hospital in Waukesha, Wis., didn't work because Dan was suspended from school for stealing food while he was still in the outpatient program, he said. After the treatment failed, his family sent Dan to a reform school in the Dominican Republic from March 2004 to July 2005. This treatment program was not designed to deal specifically with eating disorders, so Dan spent his time with "rapists, hardened criminals and murderers" dealing with "culture shock," he said. Dan said the program was intensely structured to teach participants to accept authority and take care of "internal" issues. If someone didn't listen to the rules, corporal punishment -- swatting or being locked in a quiet room for hours or days -- was used, he said. For Dan, binging, purging and writing letters were reasons for punishment. Dan also endured manual labor on a daily basis, including cutting grass with a machete. While Dan was in treatment, he said his parents sent applications for colleges, even to schools he didn't want to attend. He was accepted to Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa, and said he agreed to go because he was afraid his parents would never let him leave the Dominican Republic if he didn't. When he came back to the States, his struggles resurfaced. Dan didn't have a roommate in college, so he was able to hide his eating disorder, he said. After being caught binging and purging, he said he decided to reapply to the University, and started classes in January. "I came here with a lot of hope," he said. When at the University, he started slipping back into some old patterns, but wanted to independently find treatment at Boynton Health Service. But, Boynton "couldn't provide me with resources," he said. "I had just been trapped in the Dominican Republic for over a year; I wanted this independence to deal with this." Boynton referred Dan to the STAR Center, which referred him to Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park. STAR Center Director Kerri Boutelle said eating disorders are more common if a person plays sports, but it isn't a determining factor. Boutelle said one of the common misconceptions among athletes is that it's normal for a woman to miss her period. University women's track coach Gary Wilson said he knows missed periods are not normal and is something that would arouse suspicion if a runner already shows other signs of an eating disorder. He said the female runners at the University never are weighed, because body fat percentage and being nutritionally fit are most important. "Weight is not the answer," he said. Wilson said the track team takes a proactive stance by having its nutritionist discuss eating disorders from the beginning. Despite multiple treatments, Dan said he still struggles with eating. It often resembles having bipolar disorder, he said, because of the drastic change in his sense of control. "One little thing goes wrong and you just let it dominate your life," Dan said.

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