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April 02, 2010

 

Man convicted of harassing model
BBC News
Davis, who suffers from bipolar disorder and has been sectioned under the Mental Health Act several times, denied one charge of harassment on the grounds of ...

Pfizer faces $142M in damages for drug fraud
The Associated Press
Kaiser claimed it was misled into believing Neurontin was effective for off-label treatment of migraines, bipolar disorder and other conditions. ...

DA: Michael Riley medicated daughter to 'shut her up'
Boston Herald
The defense also depicted Riley as a father trying to take care of his family while struggling with problems of his own, including bipolar disorder.

Smith to join Sharks?
sportal.com.au
Smith, who walked away from both the Eels and the NRL three games into the 2008 season after announcing he suffers from bipolar disorder, has been playing ...

Widely-used screening scale misidentifies borderline personality disorder as bipolar disorder
News-Medical-Net A study from Rhode Island Hospital has shown that a widely-used screening tool for bipolar disorder may incorrectly indicate borderline personality disorder rather than bipolar disorder.

Child Psychiatrists Embrace Videoconferencing Telepsychiatry
Muzi
Kanina Chavez lives an hour away from Children's Hospital in Seattle and used to have to take a whole day off from work whenever her daughter, Rachel, had an appointment with a psychiatrist. Rachel was a teenager when she started treatment for bipolar disorder roughly six years ago.

Broadway's Unlikely Hit Gives Hope to the Bold
New York Times
By PATRICK HEALY Bipolar disorder, electroshock therapy, a yearning for peace of mind: these are not the usual elements of a successful Broadway musical. ...

Second annual wheelchair basketball tournament
The IUSB Preface
... the Students with Disabilities Union wants to start building awareness about other disabilities that are not as noticeable, such as bipolar disorder. ...

Self-discovery & recovery
Pueblo Chieftain
She had trouble holding jobs because many employers simply didn't understand the frequent mood swings and debilitating depression that go along with bipolar ...

Is celebrity soul-baring spreading depression?
Daily Mail
When the actor Stephen Fry revealed he suffered from bipolar disorder, he said he wanted 'to fight the public stigma and give a clearer picture of a mental ...

Kirk Snyder's Trial Begins in Ohio
KOLO
His attorney, Hal Arenstein, says that Snyder is paranoid, psychotic and bipolar. He was placed on medications to treat his condition, but he stopped taking ...

Ahmanson gets 'Normal'
Variety
A musical about a woman struggling with bipolar disorder, "Normal" is more challenging material than most tuner fare and seems a potentially risky bet for ...

From the clinics to the bench and back -- phenytoin as a mood stabilizer?
EurekAlert (press release)
Recent clinical studies in patients with bipolar disorder have suggested that, as for other anticonvulsant drugs commonly used in the treatment of bipolar ...

Pfizer to Pay $141M Penalty For Neurontin Promotion
Lawyers and Settlements
... plaintiffs in the lawsuit, alleged that Pfizer misled them into believing that Neurontin was effective as treatment for migraines and bipolar disorder. ...

Man admits he fatally stabbed father in October
Minneapolis Star Tribune
"My son, he's bipolar," Gregory Janisch told police arriving at their house on the 2200 block of Countryside Court. David Janisch pleaded guilty Friday to ...

Sophie Anderton had to reshape her life after stalker ordeal
Metro
... avoided restaurants and events out of fear. Mr Davis was described by a police officer as 'completely mentally unstable' and suffers from bipolar disorder.

She is bipolar. She left for the store without her meds and ...
By Christine Stapleton
I am going to start keeping track of local crime stories that involve someone with a mental illness. Is it me or am I just hyper aware of any mention of mental.

Depression On My Mind | Bipolar Advantage
By Tom Wootton
Every single day I think about the time I tried to kill myself. It is one of my strongest and most detailed memories. I mention it in passing in my talks as if.

Bipolar In Order
By John M. Grohol, Psy.D.
Tom Wootton's new book, Bipolar In Order, asks the reader to approach bipolar disorder (otherwise known as manic depression) from a different light. Rather than viewing this mental health condition as a problem needing a cure, ...

Bipolar disorder is | mystoneybrookneighbors.com
By admin
Bipolar disorder is a mental illness that afflicts you such that your moods could swing extremely rapidly between extreme mania and deep depression. Amongst a host of other things, it makes it difficult for you to relate with people ...

Antiepileptic Phenytoin As A Mood Stabilizer
Medical News Today
Phenytoin is a well known antiepileptic agent widely used throughout the world. Recent clinical studies in patients with bipolar disorder have suggested that, as for other anticonvulsant drugs commonly used in the treatment of bipolar patients including valproate and carbamazepine, phenytoin may have mood-stabilizing effects in addition to its well-known anticonvulsant properties...

How does pot affect depression, bipolar?
CNN
I was wondering where I would find information on how pot affects depression and bipolar disorder. I have looked at various sites on the Internet and found that the topic is rarely talked about by a doctor. And when it is, they mention chronic use. What is chronic use, and what is the opinion of workers in the mental heath field?

Alaska Northern Lights Offers Bright Light Therapy to Combat Common Health Problems
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
RENO, Nev.----Alaska Northern Lights manufactures a bright light therapy box that aids in treating chronic health problems such as seasonal affective disorder, depression, bipolar disorder and sleep problems.

Missing Woman Sought
Albuquerque Journal
Lori Alvarez, 29, who is bipolar and in need of medication, was last seen March 18 in the 1600 block of Indiana NE, according to an Albuquerque Police Department news release. Alvarez's vehicle is a four-door, red/maroon 2001 Ford Escape, with a New Mexico license plate number of FJN204, according to the news release. Alvarez is 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighs 200 pounds. She has brown hair and ...

Reform could change health care delivery
Concord Monitor
Insurers will have to offer the same level of coverage for someone with a bipolar disorder as someone with a heart condition. Senior citizens will slowly ...

Man sentenced to seven years for abducting girlfriend
Richmond Times Dispatch
Cavedo announced his decision after a hearing in which several of Washington's siblings and his 19-year-old daughter said they had been diagnosed as bipolar ...

Troopers, K-9s continue search for missing woman

The Daily Times
PRINCESS ANNE -- State troopers were continuing their search for a woman suffering from bipolar disorder who apparently walked away from her mother's Flower Hill Church Road home.

Bright light therapy box for SAD, depression, bipolar disorder and sleep problems
News-Medical-Net
Alaska Northern Lights manufactures a bright light therapy box that aids in treating chronic health problems such as seasonal affective disorder (SAD), depression, bipolar disorder and sleep problems. Sufferers of SAD, a form of clinical depression, include up to 25 percent of those living in northern latitudes who experience varying degrees of SAD during winter months when there is less natural ...

 

 


 


 



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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