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Well yesterday I had a great trip to New York. I learned a ton of useful things to help this organization move forward.
Anyway, here’s the current bipolar news.
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Raising funds – and bipolar awareness
DO> Great article.
From Prevention to Preemption: A Paradigm Shift in Psychiatry
DO> I totally agree with this.
8 Myths About Bipolar Disorder
DO> Interesting what do you think.
The end in full view
DO> Hmm. What do you think of this.
Swings of bipolar disorder to opposite extremes
DO> This article is so true.
Get Real: Count Your Blessings and Your Troubles
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I enjoyed the articles. I have another question. I have a son who is 21 and has tried several times to be out on his own. However, it hasn’t worked, he doesn’t stay on routines, becomes stressed, angry and “out of control” Is this normal and is it wrong for me to let him come back into our home?
Hi Jan: You didn’t say if your son has been diagnosed bipolar or not. Anyway, I am bipolar type II and have been since teenage years, but not diagnosed properly until 2 years ago (50 years of age). When I was his age, I moved out of home several times, and always had to move back. Until he gets a proper diagnosis and becomes stable on his medications, it is probably better if he does stay at home. Young adults with this condition often have trouble adjusting to the stresses of living on their own. Being “out of control” is part of being in a manic state of bipolar disorder. My advice to you is get your son to a phychatrist (if you haven’t already) and try to make sure he takes his medication. He most likely isn’t “ready” emotionally to be on his own yet. Good luck to you.
1. Prevention to Preemption. This is a god theoretical model. I’d go further to suggest that cognitive therapy could be taught to children in schools, to promote greater self-awareness amongst them so they may begin to challenge their assumptions about themselves, etc. But with regard to the practice … we must realise that the treatment and prevention of illness is subject to finite resources. Mental health competes with many other areas for the finite $$s. Those giving the funds will be influenced by the returns on their investment and, of course, the political fall out of their decisions. Hence, cancer research gets vast sums of money thrown at it, with barely a crumb passed to mental health. Why? Because cancer has a wider public awareness, treatment of it seems more urgent (everyone knows someone close who has died of cancer but most of them don’t know anyone close with a mental illness (probably because it’s been covered up!) That’s the political side. The investment is also more clear cut. Cancer is more widespread and it kills more often. BUT researchers seem confident that cures, complete cures and not just remission, will soon be possible for many kinds of cancer. Mental illness research does not show the same promise. And then there is the issue of what pays the most in terms of profit? Even cancer research takes a back seat to cosmetic surgery! In other words, such an approach as described in this paper will only ever get OFF the paper and into the hospitals and clinics when mental health gets a higher priority! It’s time may eventually come – after all, it was not so long ago that Cancer was not the big killer but Tuberculosis. So, funding and treatment priorities DO change, but I can’t seem them doing so in the favour if mental health any time soon.
2 Bipolar Myth 7. The comment does not address the “myth” in it full sense. Current research does indicate that some anti-depressants can be dangerous if prescribed on their own, without a mood stabiliser, can cause manic episodes. Indeed, some anti-depressants are issued with a big leter warning by their manufacturers that they should not be given to someone who is Bipolar – I was given one of these before my family doctor knew I was BP, and I flipped big time!!! A massive mixed episode, the like of which I have never experienced before or since. I didn’t want to die because I was depressed – I wanted to die because I couldn’t stand the intensity of that particular mixed episode. in short, I think that commentary is to simplistic and to economical with the facts.
Here is the full story. The young girl lost an eye after a surgery in Iran when she was only 9 months old. She is suffering from a very rare eye problem and she has been under continuous eye specialist’s care for her entire life. She has had a number of serious surgeries, but now at 22 all that has been possible in Iran are done. A number of eye clinics and hospitals were contacted last April, when the pressure on the remaining eye was very high and not much was possible to bring it down. There were responses from a number of them and at the recommendation of her kind and caring ophthalmologist we selected Professor Khaw, a renown ophthalmologist at Moorefield’s Eye Hospital In London. Professor Khaw, after careful study of Parissa’s ophthalmologist’ s report, outlined a plan for her treatment. The cost for the initial treatment was estimated at 6500 sterling pounds. An appointment was made for August 6th at 10 a.m. Professor Khaw’s PA was contacted and after a number of other contacts she faxed and emailed the only documents that she felt necessary to the British Consulate in Tehran . The family then applied for a visa. Arrangements were made that a friend would receive them at London airport, take them to their hotel on August 5th upon arrival and the next day to the hospital. The father of the patient, a very honest hard working and honorable man, at first wanted to sell his small and humble house in Tehran , but then the family and friends came to his rescue. Someone sold a carpet, another dig deep into his savings etc. and something over 8500 pounds were collected. They were supposed to receive their visas after two annoying delays. I couldn’t believe the reasons given by the consulate to reject their entry visas. Here are some of the exact wordings: “You state that you will be in UK for a maximum of 20 days. Your letter fails to indicate the nature of the treatment and the duration of it. Therefore, I am not satisfied, that this requirement has been met under the Immigration Rules. You state that your father is funding your treatment. The Bank Statement submitted shows a balance of 166m Rials (approx 8,736 pounds if 1pound=IR19, 000) most of which has been recently deposited. Given his net income is 2.6m Rials (approx 136 pounds if pound=IR19,000) he has failed to show the provenance of these funds, which lead me to believe that they have been deposited to facilitate your application. Furthermore, this is a copy and not the original, which is unacceptable for evaluation purposes, as it cannot be verified. Therefore, I am not satisfied that sufficient funds available to him in the United Kingdom to meet the estimated costs and his undertaking to do so.” Patients go to Moorefields Eye Hospital from many countries and they handle many international visitors. They did for Parissa and her father whatever they do for other patients to facilitate an entry visa to Britain and they faxed the documents to the consulate. Nature of treatment was very clearly mentioned in the faxed letter to the consulate. I spent a long time on this and very carefully did all I thought was necessary. I am now convinced that most of our sufferings are inflicted by uneducated revengeful people who have lost their common sense. What is left to boasts about, if there is no “common sense”?