Bipolar News
April 27, 2007
Experts:
Tape shows shooter's warped reality
Pioneer Press
A persecution complex. Paranoid schizophrenia. Psychotic depression,
with both homicidal and suicidal characteristics. Severe bipolar
disorder.
Moms of imperfect children offer hope
Wisconsin State Journal
"Perfect" is a dirty word in the world of two Massachusetts moms whose
car magnets read "My bipolar kid loves me AND hates me" and "This car
wants to drive off Mt. Washington."
Kristin Hersh
Washington City Paper
In 1986, when a teenage, bipolar, and hallucinating Kristin Hersh
screamed the words 'I only love pieces of things that I hate,' on
Throwing Muses' 'Vicky's Box,' there probably weren't a lot of people
who imagined she would still be kicking come 2007. Back then, even her
biggest fans must have thought she was only minutes away from burnout,
meltdown, or spontaneous combustion.
Barbara Ehrenreich: Our Broken Mental Health System
HuffingtonPost
Leaving aside the issue of WMM (Weapons of Mass Murder, aka guns), the
massacre at Virginia Tech has something to teach us about the American
mental health system. It's farcically easy for an American to be
diagnosed as mentally ill: All you have to do is squirm in your fourth
grade seat and you're likely to be hit with the label of A.D.D. and a
prescription for Ritalin. But when a genuine ...
Experts
Shy From Instant Diagnoses of Gunman's Mental Illness, but Hints Abound
New York Times
The video that Cho Seung-Hui mailed to NBC offers a compelling peek into
the troubles that shaped a gunman, experts in forensic psychology say.
Mentally ill youth posing challenge for TYC
Houston Chronicle
Texas Youth Commission staff have to watch for more than just poor
behavior when looking after Zachariah Tarver ? they have to ensure he's
not hanging himself, slicing his veins, writing on the walls with his
blood or drinking cleaning fluid. Now, as state leaders work to overhaul
TYC, many are asking: Are juvenile prisons the best settings for
mentally ill youths like Tarver?
Former
police chief sentenced in theft of horse from auction
The Times-Reporter
CANTON ? Jackson Township's first police chief is now a convicted horse
thief. Canton resident Dennis L. Meeks found himself in a Holmes County
courthouse last week, where he admitted stealing a horse from an auction
last year.
Counseling a fine line for colleges: Schools such as Emory face red
tape, legal landmines when trying to help students ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Three weeks ago, an Emory University graduate student stood in the
campus quad wearing a black hood, his face covered with a blood-red
spattered white rag. "I'm [expletive] going to get you. You knew this
was coming," he yelled, frightening a fellow student, according to the
campus newspaper. He said it was an attempt to show the wrongs of the
Iraq war. He called it an artistic demonstration. She ...
Beating stigma of mental illness
Sheffield Today
MYRA Wilson has lived with manic depression for most of her adult life.
'Bipolar princess' tells her story in 'Crazy'
The News Journal
What's a bipolar princess look like?
Advocates for mentally ill say restrictions on voting unfair
Boston Globe
John Sarro and William Sarmento were charged with separate murders in
the 1980s. Both were acquitted by reason of insanity and landed in the
state psychiatric hospital.
Bipolar challenge: decisions
The Record
A reader was concerned when her daughter, who has bipolar disorder, was
making poor -- even risky -- social choices. Her concern was heightened
when a psychologist warned that, without treatment, her daughter would
continue to make these choices.
A Thorough
Look at Bipolar Disorder
BellaOnline T
Discover more about features of Bipolar Disorder including mania,
hospitalization, psychosis, thinking patterns and sleeping difficulty.
Also learn of the onset and diagnosis of this personality disorder.
Extended
therapy may help bipolar disorder
Pioneer Press
The question: Most people diagnosed with bipolar disorder rely on
medication to regulate their manic and depressive roller coaster of
feelings. Talk therapy sometimes is used right after an episode to
mitigate its effects. Might longer-term therapy be beneficial?
Clinical Trials Update: April 23, 2007
HealthDay via Yahoo! News
(HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of
Thomson CenterWatch:
Ex-tutor guilty of having sex with student
The Columbus Dispatch
LONDON, Ohio ? A woman who tutored special-needs students in Madison
County pleaded guilty yesterday to charges that she had a sexual
relationship with a teenager she was supposed to be helping.
Retired doctor publishes book 'Crazy Like Me'
Sidney Herald-Leader
Jerome A. Kessler, M.D., has written a book. The back cover
provocatively
asks: "Why would a doctor give up a lucrative 25-year career to become a
landscaper? Read 'Crazy Like Me,' a sentimental tongue-in-cheek novel,
to find out.
Innocent Plea In Rohnert Park Sword Murder
KGO-TV Bay Area
A man charged with murdering his mother last week pleaded not guilty
this morning in Sonoma County Superior Court.
Not Guilty
Plea In North Bay Sword Murder
CBS 5 Bay Area
A man charged with murdering his mother last week pleaded not guilty
Tuesday morning in Sonoma County Superior Court.
Midlands
residents say mentally ill aren't getting proper treatment
WIS News 10 Columbia
COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - The Virginia Tech tragedy has brought up many
questions about treatment for mental illness in this country. You may
remember that the shooter, Cho Seung Hui, was treated for mental illness
but was never committed.
Symposium on
depression and bipolar disorder
News-Medical-Net
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine will hold its 21st
annual Mood Disorders Symposium titled Bipolar Revisited: Where We've
Been, Where We're Going, at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, April
24, to draw attention to new findings in basic and clinical research on
depression and bipolar disorder.
Backus Hosts Talk On Bipolar Disorder
New London Day
Norwich - A talk on bipolar disorder will take place from 3 to 4:30 p.m.
Thursday in conference Rooms 1 and 2 at The William ...
Symposium on
depression and bipolar disorder
News-Medical-Net
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine will hold its 21st
annual Mood Disorders Symposium titled Bipolar Revisited: Where We've
Been, Where We're Going, at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, April
24, to draw attention to new findings in basic and clinical research on
depression and bipolar disorder.
New City man described as suicidal is missing
The Journal News
Clarkstown police are seeking the public's assistance to find a
21-year-old New City man believed to be suicidal who has been missing
since Monday. Ryan Berry has bipolar and attention deficit hyperactivity
disorders.
LITCHFIELD: Toll
Gate Inn eyed for mental health facility
Republican-American
A company specializing in the treatment of depression, bipolar disorder
and other psychoses may convert the historic Toll Gate Hill Inn and
restaurant into a private, 35-bed residential facility on Torrington
Road.
Ohio executes man who changed mind on appeals
Washington Post
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - A convicted murderer who stopped appealing
his death sentence but then changed his mind and went to court five days
ago was executed in Ohio on Tuesday after the U.S. Supreme Court refused
to step in.
White Matter Defects May Lead to Schizophrenia
HealthDay via Yahoo! News
TUESDAY, April 24 (HealthDay News) -- Defects in the brain's white
matter, which is responsible for communication between parts of the
brain, may be a key genetic factor contributing to schizophrenia, a new
study suggests.
Local support
system for mentally ill people gets new home
The York Dispatch
For 24 years, volunteers have provided support to mentally ill people
and their families. But the National Alliance of Mental Illness of
Pennsylvania has secured funding to open an office in the city where
help will be available eight hours a day, four days a week.
Antidepressants don't help bipolar depression
Reuters.co.uk
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The swings in mood from depression to mania
that afflict people with bipolar disorder can be tempered with drugs
such as lithium, but adding an antidepressant drug to ease the
depression component is not helpful, new research suggests.
Backus to hold lecture on bipolar disorder
Norwich Bulletin
The William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich will host a discussion on
bipolar disorder from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. this afternoon. ?Primary
Education in Bipolar Disorder: Manic and Mixed Episodes,? will be held
in the conference rooms just inside the main hospital entrance.
Bipolar Disorder In Children Difficult To Diagnose, Reports The Harvard
Mental Health Letter
Medical News Today
At least one-third of the time, the symptoms of bipolar disorder first
appear in childhood or adolescence. However, in children, it can be
difficult to distinguish bipolar symptoms from those of other disorders,
notes the May 2007 issue of the Harvard Mental Health Letter.
USPSYCH: New Definitions on Tap for Mixed Manias
Psychiatric Times
SAN FRANCISCO -- Dysphoric mania and other mixed mania states of bipolar
disorder will become easier to diagnose with better definitions, a
researcher said here.
NAMI announces mental health awareness outreach
The Pilot-Independent
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is the nations' leading
grassroots advocacy organization solely dedicated to improving the lives
of families and persons with severe mental illnesses, such as
schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (also called manic depression).
Mood Clock
ScienCentral
Genetics researchers have striking new evidence that our biological
clocks play an important role in mood disorders like manic depression.
This ScienCentral News video has more.
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