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September 26, 2008


Bus driver was bipolar, not drunk, court told
Toronto Star
McNeill's psychiatrist, Dr. Leslie Kiraly, took the stand in a College Park court, and said his patient suffered from bipolar disorder, evident through ...

Chuck Barney: Maurice Benard has found his niche on 'General Hospital'
San Jose Mercury News
In his early 20s, Benard was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, a serious but treatable mental illness. The condition was eventually written into his ...

Construction and validation of a dimensional scale exploring mood ...
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
The boundaries between mood states in bipolar disorders are not clear when they are associated with mixed characteristics. This leads to some confusion to ...

Global Psychiatrists Unite To Improve Services In Mental Health
Medical News Today
Thirty seven medical experts in psychiatry from across the world have called on the medical community to take urgent action to optimize services for people with a diagnosis of severe mental illness such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder(i). Professor W.

NAMI to offer new series of classes for parents
Brick Township Bulletin
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) will offer a new series of six classes that will address issues concerning attention deficit disorder, anxiety, bipolar disorder, depression, obsessivecompulsive disorder, oppositional-defiant and conduct disorders, schizophrenia, substance abuse disorders and other mentalhealth challenges.

Woman Still Missing
WSET
Patsel has bipolar disorder and without her medication, police say, she could have memory lapses. If you think you have seen her or have any information, ...

Growing up Bipolar
Boston Globe
He has suffered from bipolar disorder his whole life, as have both of his parents and his one brother - only a sister, the Peggy named in the excerpt on the ...

Conferences On Bipolar Disorder In Children
Westchester.com
--The Dr. Samuel Kahn Memorial Lecture -- Bipolar Disorder in Children: Exploring the Controversy -- will be held October 15 from 9:00 - 10:15 AM at WJCS ...

Tips For Parenting A Child With Bipolar Disorder
NPR - USA
But many parents find themselves unprepared when their children are diagnosed with bipolar disorder, a mental illness. In this week's Behind Closed Doors, ...

Craig takes on Bipolar quest
Redland Bayside Bulletin -
WHEN Craig Wilson of Redland Bay says he is willing to go to extremes to get his message out about Bipolar, he has trekking boots to prove it. ...

Girlfriend's bipolar disorder can't be fixed with love alone
The Naperville
Dear Ellie: I left my girlfriend, as our relationship had become unhealthy and abusive.

Tips For Parenting A Child With Bipolar Disorder
NPR
Every parent hopes their child's misbehavior can be easily corrected with a time out or appropriate punishment. But many parents find themselves unprepared when their children are diagnosed with bipolar disorder, a mental illness. In this week's Behind Closed Doors , Dr. Ellen Leibenluft, Dr. Carl Bell and author Cassandra Joubert discuss parenting children with the illness.

Bipolar Disorder Tied to Age of Fathers
The Gadsden Times
Paternal age seems to be tied to the likelihood of having children who develop bipolar disorder as adults, a large study reports.

Officer cleared in fatal shooting
San Diego Union-Tribune
SAN DIEGO - The officer who shot and killed a San Diego man suffering from bipolar disorder in May has been cleared by the District Attorney's Office, officials said yesterday.

Report: Road rage driver burns to death
Moldova.org
A coroner in England says a driver overcome with road rage rammed a parked car, sparked a fire and then revved the engine until she burned to death.Serena Sutton-Smith, 54, who suffered drastic mood swings caused by bipolar disorder, failed to understand the danger she was in, Coroner Alan Crickmore concluded at an inquest, The Daily Mail reported Monday.The inquest heard from witnesses who said ...

Bridge over troubled water
Northwest Missourian
"However, when I was 16, I developed bipolar disorder through a chemical imbalance." The chemical imbalance in Hines' brain that caused his mental illness ...

Missing Mesa man's car found burning in Coconino County
AZ Central.com
Jesse Robert Loy, 30, suffers from bipolar disorder and depression and requires medication, police said. He was last seen wearing a white t-shirt and white ...

Team Trudeau campaigns
Edmonton Sun
... of the late prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, is a mental health advocate since going public in 2006 with her own battle with bipolar disorder. ...

St. Lucie's mental health court can help change lives
Vero Beach Press-Journal
Diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorders, Brooks credited the mental health court for helping her change her life. "It helped 100 percent," she ...

Mental Health Court Moving Ahead Despite County Cut-Backs
WCTV -
Millage rates in Leon County are going up, but the county will have millions less to work with... and some programs have to cut back or be discontinued. ...

Living with a Bipolar Husband
Between January and May of 2006, my husband, Leopold, attempted suicide four times, at nearly regular intervals of five weeks.

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Bipolar diagnosed in younger and younger patients
CNN
This week, Dr. Charles Raison offers part two of his answer to the viewer question: Can a 9- or 10-year-old be bipolar?

The Children's Hospital a miracle for many parents
WIS
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Are Veterans Being Given Deadly Cocktails to Treat PTSD?
AlterNet
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