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June 27, 2008

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Tyler Morning Telegraph
Melody Stroud was lost for 15 years - now found, she's helping others face feeling "crazy" and discover the sweet joy of normalcy. Without realizing it, Mrs. Stroud stepped onto a mental rollercoaster called bipolar disorder at age 22 that derailed with a life-threatening hypomanic episode at 26.

Japan still unable to cut national suicide rate with over 33000 ...
Pravda
Suicide among people suffering from bipolar disorder is often an impulse, which is due to the sufferer's extreme mood swings (one of the main symptoms of ...

Life on a bipolar roller-coaster
Providence Journal
The bipolar tornado sucked me into its vortex and tumbled me into a desolate, rubble-strewn landscape that I still do not understand. ...

A walk at night shines a light on suicide
HeraldNet
Research shows that depression, bipolar disorder and other mental illnesses are the underlying cause in 90 percent of self-inflicted deaths, Gebbia said. ...

A question of ethics: Drugs & disclosure
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
The doctors used federal funds and money from companies such as Eli Lilly and Co. to study how kids with attention-deficit disorder and pediatric bipolar ...

Assailants sentenced on simple assault charge
Wayne Independent
The 46 year-old who has a pacemaker and is on 15 different medications, three of them for Bipolar depression and an anxiety disorder, was sentenced today ...

Well being
Pasadena Weekly
In answer to your question, cyclothymia is a milder form of bipolar disorder and brings about mood changes that alternate between depression and mania. ...

Educating Society About Depression and Mental Illness - Must Know ...
Best Syndication
Research findings indicate that women with bipolar disorder may have more depressive episodes and more mixed episodes than do men with the illness. ...

Until the stigma is no more
Globe and Mail
I read the article and wept, as had I not had the treatment available to me today, as a woman living with bipolar depression these past 19 years, ...

Support system
Times Record News
As patient and family education provider for Helen Farabee MHMR in Wichita Falls, Thompson - who has personal experience with bipolar disorder - has run a ...

Accused Senator May Use Bipolar Defense
Boston Channel.com BOSTON
A state senator accused in a string of sexual assaults may use a diagnosis of bipolar disorder as his defense at trial, sources close to the ...

Hornbacher recalls bipolar struggle in 'Madness'
AP via Yahoo! News
Marya Hornbacher remembers her "endless nights" as a child as young as 4, when she says she first began to show symptoms of bipolar disorder.

State Sen. James Marzilli may use bipolar defense
Boston Herald
State Sen. James Marzilli, accused in a string of sexual assaults, could be laying the groundwork for a defense based on a diagnosis of bipolar disorder - a mental illness...

Group Home Girls Make a Barefoot Run for It
ABC News - USA By DAVID SCHOETZ
Three bipolar teen girls who live in a rural North Carolina group home for adolescents with mental and behavioral problems remained missing ...

Get Yourself A Thinking Doctor!
Beliefnet.com - New York,NY,USA
Now mind you, I've had the magician before, who swore with a few medication adjustments he could practically cure me from my bipolar disorder. ...

Breakdown: The power of online media
Agoravox - Paris,France
... people and their families and society in general are dealing with various kinds of mental illness - from generalized anxiety to OCD to bipolar disorder. ...

Marzilli treated for bipolar disorder
Medford Transcript State
Sen. Jim Marzilli, D-Arlington, is being treated by a psychiatrist at McLean Hospital for bipolar disorder, said his attorney Terrence Kennedy, who said he spoke to people at the Belmont hospital.

New treatments for Bipolar disorder will be highlighted in July 11 Prechter Lecture at U-M Depression Center TurkishPress.com Wed, 25 Jun 2008 8:20 AM PDT ANN ARBOR, Mich.
For the 5.7 million Americans with Bipolar disorder, finding effective treatments can pose a serious challenge.

Antidepressants for Bipolar Disorder A Clinical Overview of Efficacy and Safety
Psychiatric Times
According to DSM-IV diagnostic criteria, bipolar disorder (bipolar affective disorder, manic-depressive disorder) is characterized by marked mood swings between mania (mood elevation) and depression.

NBA: Man-child Wright had talent but wasted it
Salt Lake Tribune
Wright was taken to a psychiatric hospital where, after a two-month stay, he was diagnosed as having bipolar disorder. Before the 1994-95 season, ...

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