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Discovering the Truth about Psychological Disorders through a Biblical Perspective on Mental Illness
Assist News Service
DALLAS/FT. WORTH, TEXAS (ANS) -- Each day men and women diagnosed with mental disorders are told they need to pray more and turn from their sin. Mental illness is equated with demonic possession, weak faith, and generational sin. Statistically, one-in-four adults in America will suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder this year -- conditions ranging from depression to schizophrenia. This reporter is one of them…
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Local Businessman Sentenced For Tax Fraud
The Star Press
INDIANAPOLIS -- A Muncie businessman who attributed his misdeeds to
bipolar disorder was sentenced to two years in federal prison Tuesday
after pleading guilty to filing false income tax returns.
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Local
Man Helps Students Understand Mental Illness
The Elyria Chronicle-Telegram
AMHERST — George Staursky lived 15 tumultuous years before a correct
diagnosis of bipolar disorder led to a proper course of treatment.
Decades of grappling with mental illness began with the Christmas Day
death of his mother in 1965 when he was 8 years old. A one-time
Brunswick [...]
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Meeting To Focus On Mental-Health Stigmas
Daily Record
ROXBURY -- Eric Arauz will present the topic "Surviving the Self-Stigma
and Internal Stigma brought on by Mental Health Challenges" at a meeting
on Jan. 8 at 7:15 p.m. of the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
Succasunna at Temple Shalom, 215 S. Hillside Ave., Succasunna.
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Cathy Weaver Suffers Setbacks In Launching
Non-Profit Artrageous
The Flint Journal - MLive.com
The Kettering University graphic artist, whose teenage son Andy suffers
from bipolar disorder, is now in the process of moving to North
Carolina. ...
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Bipolar Disorder
Here and Now
In her latest book "Madness: A Bipolar Life" Hornbacher talks about her
bipolar disorder, the mental illness which preceded her eating problems,
...
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Witnesses Tell Of 2006 Workplace Killing
Chicago Breaking News - Tribune
Defense attorneys Tom Breen and Todd Pugh argued that Tuduj is bipolar
and was wrongly prescribed a toxic mix of anti-depressants and sleep
medication that ...
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Doctor Examines the Jett Travolta Case
Mom Logic
We will never know if Jett was on Depakote for a seizure disorder or a
mood disorder such as bipolar disorder." "Knowing there were two 'mannies'
and a baby ...
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Salem Doctor Sentenced To 120 Days In Jail In
Drugs-For-Sex Case
Daily Herald
Cannon was not put on medication until recently, when he was evaluated
again and diagnosed with bipolar disorder. "If they had diagnosed it
properly at the ...
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Readers Respond
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription)
Ms G is a 51-year-old woman with a history of bipolar disorder and
tobacco use for more than 35 years. She has struggled to quit smoking
for 8 years and is ...
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Daughter Raises Reward In Hopes Of Finding
Killer
CNN
Danielle Parker says her mother suffered from bipolar disorder and had
stopped taking her medicine. Still, Parker managed to convince the
hospital staff ...
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Relieving The Stigma
Concord Monitor
With medication and a support system (I attend Depression and Bipolar
Support Alliance meetings at St. Paul's Church), I am also able to lead
a productive ...
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Considering Alternative Treatments?
About - News & Issues
A lot of people with bipolar disorder are
interested in alternative or supplemental therapies to prescription
medications. Mimosa, a member of our Forums, ...
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Former Komen For The Cure Director Going To
Prison
KTVB
Guinard says she suffers from depression and bipolar disorder and is
taking medication for a brain tumor. She will have to serve her prison
sentence at the ...
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St. Louisan and His Service Parrot Make
National News
Riverfront Times
Specifically, the story examines a controversial federal proposal that
would prohibit disabled folks like St. Louisan Jim Eggers -- who is
bipolar -- from ...
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Doctor Agrees to Cut Drug Firm Ties
Newsinferno.com
According to the Boston Globe’s Boston.com, Biederman, a well-known
child psychiatrist who has advocated the use of antipsychotics to treat
bipolar disorder...
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Dallas
County Probation Program Addresses Addictions, Bipolar Disorder
Denton Record-Chronicle
Kimberly Armstrong says she has run from every drug program she was ever
ordered to attend. But when she was sent to one offered by Dallas County
probation aimed at treating both her drug addiction and bipolar
disorder, she decided to stick with it.
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Waynesburg Man Found Competent To Stand Trial
For Roommate's Murder
Canton Repository (subscription)
Defense attorney Frank Beane has said Grossi suffers from bipolar
disorder and schizophrenia, and didn’t take his medication before police
questioned him.
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Annapolis Homicides Down In 2008
Annapolis Capital
17 when he was shot and killed at 12:30 am His
family said at the time that he was bipolar and used illegal drugs to
"self-medicate. ...
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Health Workers 'Supported By Former Patients
Website'
Craegmoor News
Dan Johnson from Accrington developed bipolar disorder, also known as
manic depression, three years ago after accidently swallowing nail
varnish remover, ...
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Patty Duke To Share Story Of Mental Illness In
Sarasota
Bradenton Herald - FL
By DONNA WRIGHT - “A Brilliant Madness” is how actress Patty Duke
describes her battle with bipolar disorder and its impact on her ...
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FDA Decides Against Warnings on Epilepsy
Medication Suicide Risk
Natural News.com
The so-called anti-convulsants are used primarily to treat epilepsy,
bipolar disorder and migraines. In early July, the FDA announced its
intention to add a ...
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Tina: I'm Bipolar, Eccentric, Neurotic With
OCD
News of the World
I’ve been diagnosed with OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) and being
bipolar. I do everything to extreme.” Tina, who has also appeared in
Brookside, ...
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UVAS Increases FATA Quota By 100pc
The News International
Patients with this diagnosis were also more than five times as likely to
have generalized anxiety disorder or bipolar disorder. By Our
Correspondent PUNJAB ...
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NAMI Support Group To Meet
The Savage Pacer
The National Alliance for Mentally Illness (NAMI) Support Group meets
Wednesday, Jan. 7 at the Valley Green Workforce Center, 752 Canterbury
Rd. S., in Shakopee. NAMI in Scott County is a support and outreach
group for those affected directly or indirectly by mental illness
(bipolar, schizophrenia, depression, etc.) The group meets on the first
and third Wednesdays of the month. read ...
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Several Familiar Faces Will Be Missing When
Congress Convenes This...
Seattle Times
... of his 21-year-old son, Garrett, into a crusade that persuaded his
colleagues to allocate far more funds for bipolar disease and suicide
prevention. ...
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Local News In Brief
Desert Valley Times
Considering that nearly one person in five is diagnosed with some kind
of serious mental illness — bipolar disorder, depression, schizophrenia,
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Readings and Signings
Portsmouth Herald News
Growing up, Lovelace and his siblings had to deal with the increasingly
bizarre behavior of their parents as the pair tried to battle through
bipolar ..
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Missing Florence Man May Be In the Upstate
WSPA Spartanburg
Police are looking for a 55-year-old Florence man
with bipolar disorder who was reported missing Saturday and believe he
may be in the Upstate.
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Bulletin Board
Charleston Gazette
The Charleston chapter of the Depression and
Bipolar Support Alliance meets Wednesdays from 6:30 to 8 pm at St.
John's Episcopal Church, Room 109, ...
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Dad Speaks Of Abandoned Son
Warwick Daily News
The Daily News understands concerned relatives of the 32-year- old
woman, who has suffered from Bipolar disorder for more than a decade,
...
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Princess Leia’s Wit Tames the Dark Side
New York Times
To make things worse, she suffers from bipolar disorder and all her life
has shuttled between mood extremes. “I just have basically too much
personality for ...
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Medicine Costs Hurt People
Times-Standard
I had a friend who was bipolar and rather then spend $2000 a month and
make himself content, stable and pleasing to be around, he opted for the
$50 a month ... |
