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March 12, 2010

 

Defense: League City woman was off meds, high when she confessed to killing mom
11 News Houston
LEAGUE CITY, Texas - Defense attorneys Wednesday attacked the validity of a videotaped confession, saying their bipolar client was off her medication and high on cocaine and ecstasy when she told police she had strangled her mother. Erin Ashlyn Moffatt, 20, admitted during her interview with League City police that she strangled her mother, Jana S. Moffatt, 47, and helped dump her body in a ...

Course offered to families coping with mental illness
The Canton Repository
National Alliance on Mental Illness Stark County will host an education course for families who have a loved one with a mental illness, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or major depression.

This Stinks! Seven Years for Stealing Cheese?
CBS News (blog)
The Bee said that his defense lawyer argued Ferguson was bipolar and had trouble controlling his impulses to steal during manic phases. ...

Jane Pauley returns to 'Today' show
USA Today
Jane Pauley who hasn't been in the public eye much since her 2004 book in which she revealed she was bipolar, will return to the Today show on Tuesday. ...

Mother who killed daughter in Beverly is granted parole, lawyer says
Boston Globe
21 hearing that she killed her daughter, Marcia, largely as a result of undiagnosed mental illness, chiefly bipolar disorder. "While there was some evidence ...

Asenapine Is an Effective Adjunctive Treatment for Patients With Bipolar ...
DG News
By Jenny Powers MUNICH, Germany -- March 3, 2010 -- Adjunctive asenapine is effective in patients with mania associated with bipolar I disorder who had ...

Sentencing to continue for Showboat hostage taker | Philadelphia Inquirer | 03 ...
Philadelphia Inquirer
Kilkeary, diagnosed as bipolar, pleaded guilty in August to kidnapping, extortion and making threats during the overnight incident when the Showboat ...

'Beast of Broadway' portrays world of David Merrick
The News-Press
Research leads Garrison to believe Merrick might have been bipolar with an unhappy childhood that caused him to seek the cheering approval of audiences. ...

Police looking for teen missing from Murrieta
Press-Enterprise
Kevin Rawitz takes prescription medicines for bipolar disorder, a police news release stated. Kevin was last seen about 8 pm leaving the Jack in the Box ...

Geneva group helping ease suicide grief
Daily Herald
A teenage girl breaks up with her boyfriend and cannot cope with the pain and loss. A young adult, who is bipolar and doesn't take his medication, can no longer deal with the lows of life.

Adjunct Quetiapine Delays Time to Recurrence of Any Mood Events in Bipolar ...
DG News
This analysis supported the efficacy of quetiapine for the prevention of mood events in patients with bipolar I disorder who present with mixed symptoms, ...

Family Sues Police After Fatal Taser Shot
WJZ
The family of a bipolar man who died after cops shot him with a taser is suing Baltimore County police for $10 million. The family of a bipolar man who died ...

Judge says store dispute led to his confinement
Houston Chronicle
According to the newspaper, the 46-year-old judge has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and has fought confinement at mental health facilities and ...

Pentagon shooter had a history of mental illness
KGAN
Bedell's psychiatrist says Bedell was diagnosed as bipolar, or manic depressive, and had been in and out of treatment programs for years. ...

'Bipolar' vs. 'Not Mr. Right'
Momlogic.com
Homeschool Mom: Now even my teenager has uttered the dreaded, "So-and-so's ex is bipolar." Just because you can't get along with someone (or have had a poor ...

Why I'll be carrying the Paralympic torch
Victoria Times Colonist
Three years ago, he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. From the time he was born, his ability to interact with the world was affected by something over ...

Kan. House to weigh voting rights, mentally ill
NTV
Supporters say the proposal is an important gesture because many Kansans are diagnosed with conditions such as depression or bipolar disorder. ...

Book Review: Bleeding Violet
The Trades Hanna Järvinen is the kind of girl who wears only purple and bashes people upside the head if they make her angry. The doctors call it bipolar disorder. She prefers the term manic-depression. It's more descriptive, you know?

Ivy League graduate fights bipolar disorder
New Bern Sun Journal
In May 2000, a psychiatrist diagnosed him with a form of bipolar disorder, which is a brain disorder causing unusual, severe shifts in activity levels, ...

Pentagon Gunman Parents Warned Authorities
The Epoch Times
He had been hospitalized four times and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. His mother reported him missing and told local police he had a gun in early ...

People's Pharmacy: Generic meds problematic for some
Houston Chronicle
This antiseizure drug also is prescribed for bipolar disorder. Others have reported problems with another generic epilepsy medicine, levetiracetam (brand ...

Are Veterans Being Given Deadly Cocktails to Treat PTSD?
AlterNet
The FDA subsequently expanded its use, approving it for "acute manic episodes associated with Bipolar I Disorder" in 2004, "major depressive episodes ...

The Children's Hospital a miracle for many parents
WIS
These days, Gabriel fights ADD, ADHD, and bipolar disorder. Doctors caution that more trouble could be down the road. "If you had seen what Gabriella went ...

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?

DIY: stabilize your mood in four steps
Independent Julie Fast, an author and expert on bipolar disorder, explains four steps to stabilize your mood and combat depression and mania.

What's in your head? Study suggests a psychiatric self-test can tell you
Los Angeles Times (blog)
Depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder .... Maybe you could, or should, just screen yourself for these conditions. ...

Father in Riley murder case described as bipolar
Boston Globe
... of psychotropic drugs, was depicted by his lawyer today as a man with bipolar disorder who tried to do the best for his financially strapped family. ...

Bipolar Mom is Missing
Momlogic.com
The family of Sarah Rogers, a missing New Hampshire mother who is battling bipolar disorder, is desperate for clues. 29-year-old Sarah Rogers has been ...

Don't Let Pentagon Tragedy Blind You into Scapegoating Innocent
OpEdNews
As for his apparently untreated mental illness, approximately 5.7 million people in our nation suffer from bipolar disorder, formerly known as ...

SMITH v. ASTRUE

Leagle.com
On February 28, 2005, F. Joseph Whelan, MD diagnosed bipolar disorder without psychotic features, seasonal on Axis I and made no Axis II diagnosis. ...

State AG against sentencing break in vet's beating
Gary Post Tribune
In its answer to the appeal, the state argues that there was no connection between the attack and Boswell's bipolar disorder and that Boswell had no history ...

Film shines light on mental illness
Brazosport Facts
Mental illness is a tremendous challenge for individuals who live with conditions like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, for their families and friends and ...

Psychiatric patient 'leapt to death' after discharge
Metro
Miss Nye had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder two years ago but, after reacting badly to medication, experts recently told her they believed she was ...

Should schools use seclusion rooms, restraints for difficult kids?
The Capital Times By age 2 Donovan Richards was kicked out of day care for hitting. At age 3, he was obsessed with dinosaurs and utterly uninterested in other children. At 4, he was hospitalized for mania after he threatened to kill himself with his toy sword. And by 5, he was on medicine for bipolar and autism spectrum disorders. One doctor told Paula Buege her son would end up in an institution. Buege vowed to ...

Ellie: Insist wife seeks therapy
Toronto Star
Q: Over the last decade my wife of 20 years has been involved in numerous affairs, mostly involving her work colleagues. She's bipolar and uses this as her excuse. I've turned a blind eye to this behaviour for the sake of our family ... until I found out about another affair. I gave her non-negotiable conditions, if she wanted to keep the marriage working. If not, the marriage is over and no ...

 

 


 


 



This Week's Bipolar News

Rare Deletions Or Duplications Of DNA Tied To Bipolar Disorder
Medical News Today
New research led by University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine, finds that rare copy number variants (CNVs) where sections of DNA are either duplicated or missing, seem to play a key role in the risk for early onset bipolar disorder, which appears in childhood or early adulthood. The researchers write about their findings in a paper published online on 22 December in the ...

Where Does My Mental Illness End, And Where Do I Begin?
About - News & Issues
By Marcia Purse, About.com Guide December 22, 2011 From my friend Andy "Electroboy" Behrman comes a thoughtful and thought-provoking essay on the journey through life with bipolar disorder. Is there truly such a thing, he's been asked, as "recovery" ...

Mind over Mood
PsychCentral.com (blog)
She has a Mood Disorder NOS and has been married to her college sweetheart, who has Rapid-Cycling Bipolar Disorder and Attention Deficit Disorder, for 10 years. They are happily married, have three kids, and live in the Midwest, USA.

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Book Review: Mind on the Run

The actual name of the book is: Mind on the Run: A Bipolar Chronicle, and chronicle it is, for it chronicles the tragedy that one family endured as one of its members, Scotty, went through five major, prolonged bipolar manic episodes, ending in a suicide that never should have happened.

The book is written by Dottie Pacharis, Scotty's mother, and is told over the course of thirteen years, during which time Scotty was committed 14 times to 11 different hospitals for his manic episodes - escaping from two of them - all along the east coast of the country.

Reading this book, you continually ask yourself, "How could this have happened?" Even as you read the events as they transpired, appalled as, time and time again, Scotty was able to manipulate judges during hearings as he claimed he "is not bipolar, has never been bipolar," and the judges believed him, releasing him without committing him even though he was obviously very ill.

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