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March 15, 2007

Mother: Shooter stopped taking medications for bipolar disorder
Detroit News
MIDLAND -- The 17-year-old who shot his ex-girlfriend outside her school before killing himself had bipolar disorder and recently had stopped taking his medications, his mother said.

Stalker followed school shooting victim
AP via Yahoo! News
A 17-year-old who survived being shot four times by an ex-boyfriend who then killed himself had transferred to the school where she was wounded to get away from him, a relative said Friday.

Mother: Mich. shooter stopped meds
USA Today
A teenager who shot his ex-girlfriend outside her school before killing himself had struggled with anger and depression and recently had stopped taking his medication, his mother said.

Bipolar disorder an integral part of his creations
The Columbus Dispatch
About 5.7 million Americans, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, suffer bipolar disorder, which causes unusual shifts in mood, energy
and functioning.

Are Kids Given Antipsychotics Too Often?
CBS News
The death of a 4-year-old due to an overdose of psychiatric drugs has focused attention on whether too many parents ? and doctors ? are using
drugs to control young children's behavior. Kelly Wallace reports.

Patrick's wife treated for depression
Boston Globe
Diane Patrick, the wife of Governor Deval Patrick, is being treated for exhaustion and depression, the governor's office announced last night in a
statement.

Missing Little Rock Woman Suffers from Mental Disorders
KARK Little Rock
Linaya Johnson is 25-years old, and police say she multiple mental conditions, including bi-polar disorder. Johnson was last seen on March 5th. And because of her mental state, officers believe she could be in trouble.

Merger Raises Many Issues: Looming Changes in Mental-Health System Rock Clients, Agencies and Counties
RedNova
By Marcie Young, The Charlotte Observer, N.C. Mar. 11--MORGANTON -- In 2002, Robert Cox was released from Broughton Hospital after spending 21/2 years recovering from an addiction to crack cocaine and receiving treatment for
bi-polar disorder.

British troops in Iraq face risk of mental illness
Kavkaz Center
Thousands of British troops are facing permanent psychological damage after fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, a mental health charity has warned,
reports the Sunday Telegraph.

Letter: Children & Psychiatric Drugs? You Might as well Give Them ...
Centre View - VA,USA
Bipolar disorder is characterized by mood swings, but what 2-year-old child doesn't have mood swings? Last time I checked, there was something called the ...

Father who killed children while wife was away jailed for 35 years
Guardian Unlimited
Perry Samuel, 35, who suffers from bipolar disorder, killed Caitlin, five and Aiden, three, at the family home in Bodelwyddan, north Wales, in November last ...

Battling depression
Times-Standard - Eureka,CA,USA
The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance lists the following signs of
depression: prolonged sadness or unexplained crying spells; significant changes in ...

Bipolar disorder an integral part of his creations
Columbus Dispatch
About 5.7 million Americans, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, suffer bipolar disorder, which causes unusual shifts in mood, ...

Curidium Confirms in Second Brain Study Significantly Different Patient Subgroups in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Curidium Medica plc, today announced that it has confirmed the existence of four unique and statistically significantly different subgroups of schizophrenia/bipolar disorder patients in a second study of post-mortem brain samples.

Woman says she bought car under influence of bipolar disorder, sues dealer
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune T
TROY, Mich. She went in for an oil change, but came out with a brand-new car.

Britney spears bulimic and bipolar?
WENN via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News
Troubled pop star Britney Spears has been suffering from bulimia since she was 16 years old, according to US reports.

Dealer sued over impulse buy
Detroit News
TROY -- A woman with a bipolar mental disorder claims a Troy auto dealer took advantage of her "impulsivity and difficulty in decision making" to
sell her a new $32,000 car when all she wanted was an oil change.

Lawsuit: Detroit-area dealer wrongly sold car to disabled woman
WRIC 8 News Richmond
TROY, Mich. She went in for an oil change, but came out with a brand-new car. Now a Michigan woman is suing the auto dealer, saying it took advantage of her bipolar...

Bipolar buyer not entitled to grace period unless contract specifies it, AG office says
Detroit News
TROY -- Contrary to popular belief, Michigan consumers are not entitled to any specific grace period to cancel a transaction without penalty unless specified in a contract, an official with the state attorney general's office said Tuesday.

African American Families and Mental Health: What You Need to Know
U.S. Newswire via Yahoo! News
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has released A Family Guide to Mental Health: What You Need to Know, oriented especially to African-American families affected by serious medical illnesses such as major depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

Lawsuit: Detroit-area dealer wrongly sold car to disabled woman
KHQ Spokane
TROY, Mich. She went in for an oil change, but came out with a brand-new car. Now a Michigan woman is suing the auto dealer, saying it took advantage of her bipolar...

Toward a test for detecting in childhood the risk of developing bipolar disorder and schizophrenia
EurekAlert!
Quebec City, March 14, 2007—A team from Centre de recherche Université Laval Robert-Giffard (CRULRG) has made significant progress toward finding a way to determine whether a child is likely to one day suffer from bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.

Children's Cognitive Performance: A Potential Indicator Of Bipolar Disorder And Schizophrenia
Science Daily
Scientists have made progress toward finding a way to determine whether a child is likely to one day suffer from bipolar disorder or schizophrenia. A battery of neurological tests revealed that certain high-risk children performed much more poorly than a control group in memory tasks and executive functioning (planning, classifying, and interpreting information).

Call parents or police about runaway teens
Lebanon Express
Regarding the article “Not every teen has someplace to call home” in the March 8 Democrat Herald edition, I have a few thoughts. Being the mother of a girl, age 14, who is bipolar and ADHD, I can tell you that teens do not always run from bad situations.

Inmate says suspect admitted rape
Chicago Sun-Times
The man charged with raping a woman before she plunged from a seventh-floor window of a public housing building has confessed to another jail inmate, according to court papers.

Father Needs Help Finding Mentally Ill Son
KOIN News 6 Portland
SALEM, Ore. - A California father is asking for your help in locating his missing mentally ill son who was last seen last month at a friend's house in Salem.

Mentally ill man drowns in river
BBC News T
Questions remain unanswered about how a man got into a river after leaving a mental health ward, a coroner says.

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Harvard Psychiatrist Must Suspend Clinical Trials Over Conflicts
InjuryBoard.com
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Featured Article:

Being the Ultimate Perfectionist

                                                           By Michele Soloway Sexton

I am the ultimate perfectionist.  Yes, me.  I even got a fortune cookie one time that said, "You have a yearning for perfection," do you believe that?"  Even Confucius knows it!

But it's a real battle for me.  I expect things from myself that I would never expect from anyone else, and it really messes with my bipolar disorder, because, well, no one's perfect, and no one can live with that kind of stress.

So I was talking to someone about it lately, and they told me, "It's ok to strive for perfection, as long as you don't expect to arrive at perfection."

It's ok to make mistakes.  That's what I've been learning.  If you don't learn that, you'll be bound up in fear (another thing that's bad for our bipolar disorder). 

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