Current Bipolar News

Hi,

How’s it going?

I hope you are doing well.

Lots of interesting news today.

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http://www.bipolarcentral.com/bipolarnews392

Months after teen’s suicide, ‘Yolanda’s Law’ advances
DO> Really sad situation but this person is really proactive, right?

Lansing Depression Bipolar Support Alliance
DO> Take a look if you are close.

Finding healthy support in the online world
DO> Hmm. Didn’t mention me, huh?

Genes may be clue to bipolar disease

Many Canadians stigmatize mentally ill, poll finds
DO> This is across more than just Canada, don’t you think?

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  1. I read this a few days ago and was appalled but unsurprised. Having lived with Borderline Personality Disorder for years, and my late mother being paranoid schizophrenic, the thoughts echoes were all too familiar.

    I posted a link to it on the “Borderline Personality Disorder & Family” Google groups and added:

    “Definitely worth a read, the comments are quite eye-opening; this one
    touches on BPD:

    ‘I have a sister with borderline personality disorder. I have to agree
    that mental health is used as an excuse for bad behaviour. …Had she behaved responsibly to begin with … she wouldn’t have gone on to make the very poor choices with her life which have led her to a permanent mental illness …’ (trimmed)

    Any thoughts, anyone? Ring any bells, or just set the red mist
    rising?”

    Only discussion and education on-line and off can even start to shift these
    outdated views. Your newsletter & blog goes a long way toward helping do just that. Many thanks, Dave.

    Kind regards,

    Ian

  2. I am not commenting on the news. I am just so upset that I need to tell somebody. Several weeks ago I wrote about my husband (18 years of marriage) being bipolar and without medications or therapy for the past 1 1/2 years. He left me to live with a coworker, he lost his job also, as we were considering divorce on July 31st at 4:00 AM he called me to ask if I “was interested in being back with him”. No apologies or anything (like the police officer with the dog). I told him we needed to talk and things needed to change; he hung up. I couldn’t get in touch with him during the day and was really worried about suicide. I went to his new job after I ended mine and there was a police officer taking pictures of his car. As I asked the officer he said my husband had been arrested and was in jail. As I was able to gather the facts aparently he told his girlfirend he was coming back home, she threw dishes at him, he broke a mirror and burned the pictures of them together So he has an arson charge and a criminal mischief. Since he had a harrasment with DV with me when he left me in May (when I called 911 to get him to a hospital he was arrested instead); he got a 25000.00 bail which of course I couldn’t post. He goes to trial 8/25/08. I visited him in jail yesterday. He told him he was coming back home and I said it was OK as long as he went back to his doctor and started treatment again. He claims he is not sick and he is the same with or without medication (he is also an alcoholic, I guess self medicating). Jail even after my calls have not provided any kind of treatment and he has been there for 25 days (it could have made a difference) but since he is an easygoing person nobody believes me that he is bipolar and of course he will not acknowledge it. I want to help him but I am at wits end. Our correctional system needs more trainning on mental health issues. Thank you for listening.

  3. We struggled with our son’s behavior nearly all of his life. He is 24. recently, and also due to some really bad choices he was faced with some legal issues. While helping him straighten this situation out we discovered, or more accurately, our family physican discovered that his Lithium level was extremely low. This lead to a diagnosis of bipolar disease. This guy had been diagnosed in grade school with ADD/ADHD with BD. Adderal, Ritilin…noting helped. I asked my son one time “How do you really feel?” His answer: “I feel like a cassette in a VCR that only plays on fast forward.” I wonder how many diagnoses of ADD etc. are really low Lithium and BiPolar?

  4. David,

    I am not posting to current news, however, I am posting to my sons current situation. My son is 9 years old and has been diagnosed with early onset bipolar II. I was really concerened when i first heard the news, however, after recieving your emails and reading everything I could get my hands on I am no longer as concerned.

    I want to recomend a few things for parents of a child with Bipolar disorder. !. get the book, “The Bipolar Child” it is one of the most important things that I have read concerning bipolar childern.
    2. get a great no extermly good docotor and a phychologist to speak with your child. It has done wonders for my son.
    3. Make sure you know everything about the medication that your docotor is perscribing for your child before he/she takes it.

    This leads me to the last thing I want to say. Thank you David for the information. I will continue to absorb the news and information that you supply. It has done me and my family and my sons teachers a world of good. So from all of us Thank you very much.

  5. My girlfriend is bi-polar II and (when she is sober); she is one of the best persons I have ever met. She drinks every night (sometimes as much as a half gallon of vodka.).

  6. Hi Mildred,

    Your situation is not uncommon. Many people with Bipolar do not believe they have it. I think bipolar is the only disorder that tells the person with it that they don’t have it. I don’t know why this is so, but my sister has bipolar and refuses to believe it as well. I would say keep the demand that he sees a psychiatrist and a therapist as your bargaining chip for him to come home. I wish there were more we could do in this situation of knowing someone we love is bipolar and them refusing treatment… All we can do is try to help them.

    I totally agree that this whole society needs a good education in the area of mental illness. What the TV and movies portray is that mental illness means people are crazy. That gives mental illness a bad name and people don’t want to be looked upon as “Crazy” so they refuse the diagnosis is what I think is happening. I think someone needs to make a movie about the real bipolar and what it is like with and without medication. My life is as different as day and night, with and without medication.

    I will say some prayers for you and your husband, that somehow the lights will come back on for him.

    Sincerely,
    Bob

  7. What on earth have 5 types of depression to do with upholstery cleaning? It lookes like the typesetting for 2 very different articles got mixed up here.

    The article about the police officer and the dog was interesting. It is not before time that people learn to respect the lives of animals a bit more. The driver got a ticket for speeding, which was justified, as speeding can be dangerous. However, the officer had no right to insult him for being bipolar (which he would not have known if the man hadn’t told him). The loss of a beloved pet can easily throw someone into depression. Insensitive treatment and comments like “It’s only a dog, you can get another one” could have thrown the man into a manic episode. I believe that everyone deciding to go into the police force should have to do a course in psychology before joining.

  8. I just got home from placing my son in the hospital. His Lithium was twice the level it should be. Also his blood sugar was 29. He was incoherient, shaking from head to foot and almost comotose. The Dr placed him on Lithium with out monitoring him. He is also on Seraquil. 3 days ago he passed out on the way to work totalled the car and was injuried. We took him to the hospital where they immediately made him sign a paper to not drive. No one told us then about the sugar or the lithium. It wasnt until today that we found out what the problem was. I got the reports from the first hospital and his blood sugar was extremely low and his lithium high. No one said a word. He could have gone into a coma. I cant believe that hospitals think patients and family are too stupid to realize what needs to be done. The second hospital immediately gave him a infusion of glucose and now he has to stay in until his lithium levels reach a safe level. He has also had a couple of seizures. He had never had seizures before. Just be observant and know when things are really going wrong sometimes it is because the medical community doesnt listen when we talk.

  9. Mr.Oliver,I have never left,always read your e-mail every day….just overwhelmed with no money to fix my son’s mental problems….

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