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Noven’s Stavzor tentatively approved
DO> New drug for bipolar disorder!
Recognizing bipolar disorder
DO> If you are a parent, this is a must read.
Westchester psychiatrist studying bipolar disorder in senior citizens
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Forum, concert aim to save lives
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Calm after the storm
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Dear David,
It is great to get your information.
Today I would like to ask you and your group some questions about what do you think about the young criminality.
My first question will be:
Are you in agree to keep for a time the MD young criminals 10-15 years old into a closed prision with psychological reahabilitation ?
Second
Are you in agree to keep after the first reha time the young MD criminals in closed camps with daily reha treatment ?
We are very fart about the Mental world(Mental illnes) but we are at the beginning how to treat the young criminality.
In my opinion the young world it is also the same as the adults world.I think that the MDisorders needs to be trait as the same as the adults reahabilitations patterns.
I want only to say that young mental illness are the same illness as the adults and the same criminal criteria as the adults too.
I dont think that young criminals can’t be into traitment outside the closed control.
The young world needs to be safe and clean for the young generation
who wants to keep going.
Happy new year !
Maria
David,
Thank you so much for the news! You are wonderful to take the time to search and search for these great articles.
I am really interested in any information there is about us. It is nice that you share this, because I am sure many don’t have the time to search and dig for news.
Much thanks!!
Tere
Hi David,
My son was diagnosed with bipolar mix and anxiety last May. I have been with you since then. I never purchased your courses because there is no way I can afford to being the sole provider here. I did get one of the books though. Deniz is 24 but only works part time and I am single. Thank God we both work for Wegmans(we are also in NJ)and have excellent insurance as well as company support. Anyway, I finally decided to write and let you know how very much you have helped us. After the whole warehouse care thing we have found an incredible therapist (who Deniz loves) and she put us in touch with a private psychiatrist who is young and energetic and cares very much. Deniz is doing extremely well under their care after the initial first 4 months at the clinic. There were many set backs then and with the help of your daily advice I was able to get us through them with only a few bruises.
So, thank you for being there at my time of need. CarolBe
Maria,
I have so much to say about this topic but feel that I would say something that would offend someone else.
I do not agree with locking people up for 10-15 years for something that could have been prevented if they weren’t in a major episode. But if they have taken a life or were so violent that they seriously hurt someone else then I would have to agree to the lock up.
I have a brother that was constantly in trouble with the law…somehow he has managed to stay out of a state prison. However, during his youth and most of his young adult life no one knew he had BP and Schizo and so he was self medicating with drugs and alcohol…hanging with the wrong people. In and out of rehabs.
Since his diagnosis he was only on Zoloft and most of the time he couldn’t afford the health care or meds because he was always from one job to the next. So in his last episode he was picked up for the upteenth time for DWI so they put their foot down and basically it is an out of jail program..He spent a year in a halfway house, with regular drug court checks and finally he had a good job with medical benefits, but through his program he met a girl with similar issues that ended up getting kicked out of the program because she was abusing his pain medications. She was in his apartment so he was back in court because it was a violation to have her around.
The drug court pulled him away from his job and halfway house to another county and now he is starting all over again. This time he has the right meds, but the question is will he have an episode with all this new change and new stress. Thus the final straw that send him to state prison for a couple of years.
It is so hard dealing with this illness and it wasn’t until mine was real bad with different meds that I took, that I found out how bad the illness could really get.
I used to think the same way about my brother belonging in jail, but really he is just doing the best he can… I think Education is a huge factor.
lol Maria, I thought you wrote 10-15 years locked up as a youth…you really had me worried.
As far as children go….they are just that children….I do believe they should be in a court appointed psychological youth program…but not a prison setting. It is the last thing to do and it can actually make them way worse as a result of that kind of environment at such a young age. Who will say I love you each night?? Who will make sure his rights are being handled properly?? Regardless of what they did they are still children and being away from family and their life is punishment enough at this age!!!!
Some are very sick and the parent hasn’t a clue how to take care of the illness.
David,
I am the parent of a 15 year old ADHD/BiPolar young lady…I read your newsletters with great interest and many have helped me talk to her counselor and psychiatrist with a more expanded knowledge base…Unfortunately I cannot afford the Supporter’s course…I do, however, teach a class on Nurturing Fathering that helps me get a handle on how to deal with my daughter thru the experiences I gain in the classroom with my dads…I often refer to some of your information when a dad speaks to me about issues surrounding their kids…The biggest difficulty is deciding which behavior is “15 year old” and which is the disorder…Most of the time it’s a matter of intent I find…
Thanks for all your support to us in the trenches. Too many (my wife included) feel that young people dealing with these issues tend to use ADHD/BiPD as a scapegoat for their behavior rather than truly watching them to see how they slide from one side to the other…Our daughter’s manic side usually deals with hypersexuality and impulsivity issues while the depressive side is usually spent curled up in a ball trying to hide from the world…It’s a tough road for all of us at times but with advocates like you out there, I feel we will prevail as a team one day…
I am Mari, I have Bipolor.
I would love to know about the new drug that has been approved for bipolar as I am really struggling.
Thanks
Mari
is there another blog for people who suffer from bipoar?
Mari
par0thed
Your description of your daughter’s bipolar trends when manic and depressed sounded so much like me! Thanks for sharing that, because it was helpful for me to remember BP is a disorder, and whilst i have to learn to live with it (my friends and family too!)that it does not mean I am a bad person. That means a lot to me on days like these
One of the articles mentioned “normal” people who mimic abnormal behavior. I once had an actor/attorney boyfriend who, when asked, “Are you always ON?” replied, “YES!” Looking back, I can see where he definitely had a continuous hypomanic personality, which, as far as I know, has never been diagnosed. He never took meds, that I knew of, and had never been hospitalized. But his hypomanic personality was effusive, outgoing, and, being theatric, a full-blown manic individual. Unfortunately, I have lost contact with him, as he moved out of the area after his divorce. I had a “fling” with him while he was married – but within a couple of months, I was in a hospital in a full-blown manic episode. Mea culpa; but I DID NOT contribute to his divorce…
The anti-mental illness “contracts” some colleges and universities are instituting sound to me suspiciously like discrimination. When I returned to school from a bleeding ulcer hospitalization, I was on Valium and Seconal. I continued to attend classes, but hate to think that just because I was on psychiatric meds, that I would have been treated any differently than my peers. This sounds like Big Brother to me; of course, there are exceptions – specifically the April Massacre at local Virginia Tech, when Cho SHOULD have been treated aggressively for his mental illness. But if the institution is going to have students sign a contract attesting to their “mental health” and management of such, I consider this a blatant affront to their freedom. There are no “crystal balls” that would/could indicate when/if a student would “go off” and be a danger to him/herself or others; it should be handled in the Counseling Center of that institution, and be a PRIVATE matter between the student and the counselors. I was re-admitted to the University AFTER my nervous breakdown, and only left school because of a life-threatening, physical obstruction, that required the removal of 1/3 of my stomach and a vagotomy (nerve removal). Back in the late ’60s, there wasn’t that much awareness of mental illness in students; all my school was concerned about was if I was “all right” and following treatment plans. There was no “contract” I had to sign indicating I was “normal” enough to stay in school!!
I found this issue of BipolarNews to be VERY interesting, and read nearly all articles. Thank you, Dave, for again presenting highly relevant and interesting news for bipolar survivors and their supporters. KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!!