Bipolar News for July 20, 2007

Bipolar News

July 20, 2007

Woman found incompetent to stand trial in chase death
Fort Worth Star-Telegram Mon, 16 Jul 2007 5:50 AM PDT
A woman accused of leading authorities on a high-speed chase that ended with her infant daughter's death has been found incompetent to stand trial for murder. A psychologist who examined Aimee Andrea Fisher-Riza this month found she was agitated, has impaired judgment, illogical thought processes and was uncooperative and hostile. Fisher-Riza suffers from bipolar disorder and has psychotic ...

Wife's gifts of money make ex resentful
Toronto Star
Q: I'm 57, a happy wife, mom and grandmother who was diagnosed with bipolar illness at 50. It took time to come to grips with the diagnosis. ...

Doctor is a wonderful man
LaCrosse Tribune
In my mother's 82nd year, Dr. David Metzler diagnosed her with bipolar disorder. She had spent close to 61 years battling this very difficult disease. ...

Man deputies shot battling mental illness
The State
An armed man shot Friday by Richland County sheriff's deputies has a long history of mental illness and apparently was attempting "suicide by cop," his parents said Saturday. In an interview at their home on Founders Ridge Road in The Summit neighborhood in Northeast Richland, John and Cynthia Berry told The State their 32-year-old son, Christopher Berry, has been battling bipolar disorder since ...

Ex-KKK leader cleared of sex assault charges
Baltimore Sun - United States
He wrote a 54-page manuscript called "The Bonnie Chronicles," where he falsely accused her of having HIV and bipolar disorder. "You could call it 'temporary ...

Jilted lover ordered to pay $52,000
The Charlotte Observer
A jilted lover who wrote a book of lies about his former girlfriend, then distributed it to her co-workers and family, owes her $52,000 for defamation, a jury decided. Charles W. Azain, 56, said he was despondent over his 2004 breakup with Bonnie Gifford. He wrote a 54-page manuscript called "The Bonnie Chronicles," where he falsely said she had HIV and bipolar disorder. "You could call it ...

Raising Awareness About Bipolar Disorder in Kids
13WHAM Rochester
Rochester, N.Y. - At age 11, Owen Whalen had a breakdown and tried to take his own life.

Talk about mental health
Aspen Daily News DT
Mental illness: Depression, bipolar, OCD, schizophrenia. The stigma must be
removed if we are going to save our kids and the adults we love.

Vultaggio 'has been struggling with his disease'
Gaylord Herald Times
GAYLORD - The parents of Joseph M. Vultaggio Jr. say their son had been diagnosed with bipolar/schizophrenia more than a year before he allegedly shot and killed a 41-year-old Indiana state trooper and then killed himself.

Yoga Techniques for Bipolar Disorder | Breathing Exercises | Yoga ...
American Chronicle
Yoga techniques offer some simple breathing exercises that may help relieve panic, anxiety depression, and bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, ...

Living with a bipolar secret
Health24.com
As a woman living with bipolar disorder, life can be tough and sometimes the hardest part is that people just don't understand, and you find you are always ...

Judge orders hearing for man charged with shooting at Block Island ...
Providence Eyewitness News - RI,USA
He was discharged in April from a state psychiatric hospital where he was treated for bipolar disorder after state psychiatrists found he was competent. ...

Bipolar Disorder in Kids
13WHAM-TV
It's now called Bipolar Disorder, and it causes severe mood swings, often ending in violent and frightening outbursts. Barker said, "You can look right in ...

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Mental-health resource centre saluted
The Province
Nine years ago, when her then-10-year-old son became suicidal and was eventually diagnosed with bipolar disorder, Anderson said she would spend the greater ...

Unique Collaborative Alliance Prepares to Launch a Performance ...
RedOrbit
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Institute for Johns Hopkins Nursing, the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA), ...

'Voices' arsonist gets prison
Albany Times Union
Schenectady man faces up to 16- year term in torching of two buildings SCHENECTADY -- A city man whose attorney said he struggled with voices commanding him to set fires will spend up to 16 years in state prison for a pair of arsons. Justin Swint, 19, acknowledged to Schenectady County Judge Karen Drago during sentencing Tuesday morning that he is on medication for being bipolar and ...

Months after teen's suicide, 'Yolanda's Law' advances
Boston Globe
Nicknamed "Yolanda's Law" after a Plymouth teenager who eloquently testified before legislators about her struggles with bipolar disorder, a bill aimed at improving mental health care for an estimated 100,000 Massachusetts children now awaits Governor Deval Patrick's signature.

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I received an email from a person the other day. She asked me why so many great successful people, leaders, business people, etc. have Bipolar Disorder. I have long had a theory (but I don't have any kind of study to point to which would prove my theory). Here's what I think, though:

In order for you to start something, whatever it is: open a daycare center, write a book, build a website, go to college, discover the cure for cancer, create world peace – you have to do something really important. Know what it is?

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Violence and Bipolar Disorder

Never forget that violence is many times associated with a bipolar manic episode, so if your loved one is showing signs of violence, you need to be prepared.

Kay Redfield Jamison writes of the "dark, fierce and damaging energy" of mania, and those with bipolar depression may threaten suicide or even carry through with it.

If your loved one has what the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Illnesses (DSM-IV), (the "psychiatric bible" put out by the American Psychiatric Association), calls "suicidal ideologies – one of the symptoms of bipolar disorder – get them help immediately.

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