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March 26, 2010

 

Local Limelight | Leah-Carla Gordone
The Columbus Dispatch
Leah-Carla Gordone enjoys telling a story. Many stories, actually. Tales of bipolar disorder and soul-searching, drug abuse and failed romance are all detailed in her recent book, The Motorgirl Memoirs: Adventures in Mania and Semi-Normality.

Over-Diagnosis of Bipolar May Harm Children
Psych Central
In the mid-1990s the criteria for a diagnosis of bipolar disorder was informally significantly expanded to include children. A new study examines the impact of this shift with the suggestion that troubled children diagnosed with bipolar disorder may fare better with a different diagnosis. Researchers at The Hastings Center support an emerging approach which gives many [...]

Three years later, no second thoughts from Rebecca Riley's psychiatrist
The Patriot Ledger At the end of six hours of testimony, Dr. Kayoko Kifuji told a Plymouth County jury that she hasn't changed her mind about diagnosing Rebecca Riley with bipolar disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder when Rebecca was 2. Rebecca's father, Michael Riley, is on trial for Rebecca's death, which prosecutors say was caused by a prescription-drug overdose. Riley's wife, Carolyn, was ...

Ask Amy
Washington Post
She denies she's bipolar and is going to counseling to address what she believes is mostly an anxiety disorder. She is now on medication to address this, ...

Bipolar teen missing from Sunrise home
Sun-Sentinel
White has bipolar disorder and needs her medication, Gerity said. She is described as being 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighing 120 pounds. ...

A Canadian naturalistic study of a community-based cohort treated for bipolar ...
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
Bipolar illness is associated with significant psychosocial morbidity and health resource utilization. Second generation antipsychotics, used alone or in ...

Lilly Asks Public to Watch for Stolen Conn. Drugs
ABC News
The company says they stole antidepressants, anti-psychotic and hyperactivity drugs, bipolar depression medication, a blood thinner, and cancer treatments. ...

Highest court dismisses human rights complaint
Whitehorse Star Daily
A human rights complaint launched by a man suffering from bipolar disorder has been dismissed by the territory's highest court, on the basis the various judges and panel members who have heard the case made no legal errors in deciding the case.

Counselors use life experiences to help
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Lisa Buraczewski, who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder after her brother's death, says Warmline helps volunteers and callers. It was nearly eight years ...

NC police say man killed girlfriend then himself
Greenville Daily Reflector
Williams said Hailey had been treated for mental health problems was taking medication for bipolar disorder. The couple had been living in the basement of ...

Celia Imrie interview: 'It kills me to think what I put my mother through...'
Telegraph.co.uk
As she prepares for a play about a child who is bipolar, actress Celia Imrie tells Olga Craig about her own teenage struggle with anorexia. ...

Jesse James "Mistress" Bipolar and Custody Battle Claims

CNM News Network
Jesse James “Mistress” Bipolar and Custody Battle Claims. Michelle Bombshell McGee is a tattoo model who came forward and made claims that she bed Jesse ...

County program helps the mentally ill
News-Herald.com
To qualify, participants must be diagnosed with bipolar disease, schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. "Drugs and counseling are a must," said Craig ...

Family of missing Brooklyn woman, Brianna Zani, turns to Twitter, Facebook for ...
New York Daily News
Brianna Zani first went missing from her Bushwick apartment around 11 pm on Tuesday, a day after she stopped taking medication for her bipolar disorder, ...

Special court aims to keep mentally ill out of jail
The Wenatchee World
WENATCHEE - Tuesday afternoons, usually about 2:20 p.m., the focus in Chelan County District Court is on mental health. The accused who stand before the judge may have one or multiple mental-health problems. They could have such illnesses as bipolar disorders, schizophrenia, other paranoid disorders and personality disorders. All of them have been charged with a crime.

Hospital blamed for sister's death
Concord Monitor
By RAY DUCKLER Joan Bishop believes her sister, who suffered from bipolar disorder, was released prematurely from the state psychiatric hospital 2½ years ...

San Francisco chooses jail over treatment

San Francisco Chronicle
Annette Robinson, diagnosed as bipolar, praised Behavioral Health Court staff and caseworkers, adding: "When ... arrested ... I went to jail. ...

Mentally ill man found not responsible for sex assault
The Province
There was disputed psychiatric evidence, but the judge found the testimony of a defence psychiatrist that Lowry suffered from bipolar disorder and was in a ...

Author to speak at 'Salute to Families'

MassLive.com
David Lovelace, author of the critically acclaimed memoir, "Scattershot: My Bipolar Family," will explore the relationship between creativity and mental ...

Graduates ready to face new life
Battle Creek Enquirer
He was diagnosed as bipolar and put on the proper medications. This has changed the way he thinks about alcohol, which he doesn't ever plan to use again. ...

Bipolar Disorder - Is Your Brain Shrinking?
About - News & Issues (blog)
A new study has found that people with bipolar disorder lose brain tissue as they age more rapidly than do people without mental illnesses. ...

Unruly Air Passenger Threw Punch At Cop
CBS 4
At a court appearance Monday afternoon Jones' wife told the judge her husband suffers from bipolar disorder, a mental illness that can cause large mood ...

AstraZeneca gets favourable ruling in first US Seroquel product liability trial
pharmabiz.com
Seroquel was first approved in the US in 1997 and is currently approved for depressive episodes in bipolar disorder in adults; manic episodes in bipolar ...

Relative of Gardner's mom comes to her defense
San Diego Union Tribune
Other documents say Gardner was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and was prescribed lithium, although it was discontinued because of side effects. ...

Creativity and Depression, Lost Vouchers
Back Stage
"Make sure there is no clinical depression or a mood disorder like bipolar. While depression can come and go, bipolar mood disorder is a lifetime disorder ...

First Health Care Reform Bill to Become Law

About - News & Issues (blog)
Having bipolar disorder will not prevent you from getting insurance any more! What's more, children with chronic illnesses can't be denied insurance - is ...

PARADOX OF A PLAIDED SWEATER: Students dealing with bipolar disorder deserve respect
Ball State Daily News Meira Bienstock is a junior magazine journalism major and writes 'Paradox of a Plaided Sweater' for the Daily News. Her views do not necessarily agree with those of the newspaper.

Suspect Killed In Deputy-Involved Shooting
WPBF West Palm Beach
"He was bipolar and using drugs at the same time, and when you (are) like that, you don't really know what you're doing," Christopher Hunter said. ...

Wife: passenger's behavior due to injuries
7Online WSVN-TV
"He's been diagnosed with bipolar disorder." Mike Jones is a championship motocross dirt bike racer, known as "Mad Mike." He won a gold medal in the 2001 ...

In defense of 'Crazy Girl on Train': Practice compassion
Virginia Tech Collegiate Times
Local news later revealed her identity as Nafiza Ziyad, a 25-year-old mother suffering from bipolar disorder. I asked my cousin, who works at a mental ...

Davy Sturtevant, SoMar Dance Works to present 'Dis-Ease: A Coming Out'
GoErie.com
For singer-songwriter Davy Sturtevant, what you know is bipolar disease. What you do is write about it. Thus began a collaboration between Sturtevant and ...

Legend of a Suicide
Huffington Post (blog)
Ninety percent of all people who die by suicide have a diagnosable psychiatric disorder at the time of death (most often depression or bipolar disorder). ...

Pfizer defends Neurontin as trial winds down
FiercePharma
Kaiser alleged that it had been misled into using Neurontin for migraines, bipolar disorder and other maladies in addition to its approved indication, ...

 

 


 


 



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