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A patient at a Massachusetts General Hospital bipolar clinic stabbed his psychiatrist during a treatment session yesterday afternoon, and was then shot dead by an off-duty security guard, in a frantic scene that a colleague later described as “every psychiatrist’s worst nightmare.’’ Dr. Astrid Desrosiers, a 49-year-old instructor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, the mother of grown children, and a celebrated doctor in the city’s Haitian community, was in stable condition at MGH and recovering from her wounds, relatives, colleagues, and hospital officials said. Police identified the assailant as Jay Carciero, 37, of Reading. Relatives described him as a...

I cracked up – for the first time - on June 4, 1988, three weeks short of completing my Masters degree in Psychology. Some would say I had a nervous breakdown. The psych ward doctors said it was major depression. I say that I saw just how evil my sin is in the eyes of God and it scared the hell out of me. I cracked up, broke down, and de-pressed. I cobbled together some mad reality and blew a fuse. I despaired, decompensated, detached, and derailed. I lost my mind, never to be the same again. Thanks be to...

I know he said he thinks the CIA investigation would be a bad thing, then spends the rest of the interview talking about how our image in the world is damaged because of torture, he John, the world would be speaking fluent German if it wasn't for us...Good Grief, please retire... (Video from Face the Nation)

HAVING BIPOLAR vs. BEING BIPOLAR (excerpt from the book, "Blessed With Bipolar: 36 God-Given Gifts of Manic Depression) I have bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder does not have me. Bipolar disorder is not, my identity. It is not who I am. Bipolar disorder impacts my personality, emotions, and behavior. It does not dictate what I think, believe, say, or do. There are blessings that come with “having bipolar disorder.” “Being bipolar,” on the other hand, would be nothing but a burden. If I think of myself as “being bipolar” (or of bipolar as being my being), then I am controlled by...

It’s getting old, isn’t it? Everyone these days is bipolar or has some other chic mental disorder that he feels excuses his self-centered conduct. Like the guy who once walked into my class twenty minutes late. I told him it was his last time to come in late. He said, “But you don’t understand, I’m bipolar.” And he said it in front of the whole class. Having a mental disorder used to be a source of embarrassment. But, now, it’s often a request for special treatment, which, when granted, fuels self-centered conduct. That’s why a pastor friend of mine now...

I cracked up – for the first time - on June 4, 1988, three weeks short of completing my Masters degree in Psychology. Some would say I had a nervous breakdown. The psych ward doctors said it was major depression. I say that I saw just how evil my sin is in the eyes of God and it scared the hell out of me. I cracked up, broke down, and de-pressed. I cobbled together some mad reality and blew a fuse. I despaired, decompensated, detached, and derailed. I lost my mind, never to be the same again. Thanks be to...

Scientists study affect of gluten on mental health Scottish scientists believe that gluten-rich foods could help trigger schizophrenia in people with a genetic predisposition to the condition. Scottish scientists believe that gluten-rich foods could help trigger schizophrenia in people with a genetic predisposition to the condition. The researchers at the prospective University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) are looking at the links between schizophrenia and diabetes. The two studies undertaken by geneticist Dr Jun Wei and his team in Inverness are to be funded by £300,000 from the Schizophrenia Association of Great Britain. The first project is to explore...

Well folks Britney Spears, the queen of comebacks has done it again. After the previous years' meltdown which lead to her being hospitalized twice at UCLA as well as her being placed under emergency guardianship, Britney Spears is back again like a boomerang. Already there is talks of a movie deal and perhaps another sleazy album. But the road back up has been long and hard and although she is now seeking treatment for "Bipolar" disorder, psychiatrists in charge of her care may be doing more to undermine her mental health than promote it. Britney Spears was incarcerated in UCLA's...

Bipolar sufferers often have difficulty with normal levels of stress. A politician--especially a Chicago politician--might very well become psychologically debilitated from excessive stress. Politicians do have real enemies, after all, and many occasions of feeling pressured, unappreciated, slighted. All this would be exacerbated with bipolar disorder. The Fitzgerald affadavit indicates that Blagojevich no longer had much interest in being Illinois governor. He was looking for something more interesting with more money. (Bipolar sufferers often have difficulty with money.) This, too, would fit with bipolar. Most people would not find the job of state governor to be boring. A person with...

A world-renowned Harvard child psychiatrist whose work has helped fuel an explosion in the use of powerful antipsychotic medicines in children earned at least $1.6 million in consulting fees from drug makers from 2000 to 2007 but for years did not report much of this income to university officials, according to information given Congressional investigators. [excerpt - click here to read the whole article]

Britney Spears taken from home in ambulance By Bonnie Malkin Last Updated: 10:53am GMT 31/01/2008 Troubled pop star Britney Spears has been taken to hospital in an ambulance to "get help". The ambulance picked Spears up at her Studio City home shortly after 1:30 am (0930 GMT). It was escorted to the hospital by more than a dozen motorcycle officers, two police cruisers and two police helicopters. Los Angeles police would not immediately confirm the report but one officer, who requested anonymity, said Spears was being taken to "get help". Celebrity gossip website TMZ.com reported Spears was rushed to UCLA...

AP Science Writer Scientists are testing seasickness patches and other surprising options in a challenging search for new ways to treat the crushing depression and uncontrolled mania of bipolar disorder. Also called manic-depression, it's an illness that can rip careers and marriages apart and drive people to suicide. And it's so complex and mysterious that researchers haven't developed a medication specifically for it since lithium, more than half a century ago. Yet bipolar appears in various forms and severity in about 1 in every 25 American adults at some point in their lives, according to a major study published in...

When Christine Drake worked as a Starbucks barista, the Seattle woman with psychiatric disabilities said it was the first time in her life that she "felt a sense of accomplishment." But after two years on the job, a new manager at the Starbucks store at 425 Queen Anne Ave. N. in Seattle allegedly discriminated against Drake, decreased her hours and berated her in front of customers, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Lisa Cox, an EEOC lawyer, said the world's largest coffee retailer ignored Drake's requests for help and violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by not accommodating...

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A Manitou Springs man who stabbed his 7-year-old daughter to death in 2000 because he thought she was the devil has asked for the third time to be released from a mental institute. Robert Dunn’s request was denied Tuesday by District Court Judge Larry Schwartz, who called the killing barbaric. Dunn, 57, was found not guilty by reason of insanity for the June 2000 killing of his daughter, Aaren, and sent to the Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo. Dunn also asked in 2003 and 2004 to be “conditionally released,” meaning he would live on his own with daily check-ins...

Mother Says Stepfather Is Responsible; Child Remains In Critical Condition (CBS4) PLANTATION -- A 13-year-old boy is in critical condition after he is beaten with a tire iron and left for dead while sleeping in his bed. Sunrise Police were called to a house on the 2100 block of NW 107th avenue after the mother of the child alerted them and said he was beaten by his step-father. “I’m scared,” said Lucy Housman. “ I'm very depressed. There's no words to express how I feel.” Housman told police her son, 13-year old Orlando Lopez, was beaten with a tire iron...

Lynn Giovanni was able to fatally bludgeon her 14-year-old daughter using a claw hammer and shovel while the girl slept only be cause she could not see her child's face. The 47-year-old Giovanni told her good friend Elise Bernardo that if her only child, Nicole Ashley Gio vanni, had been facing her, she could not have gone through with the killing. In the early morning hours of Feb. 6, 2005, Lynn Giovanni, depressed and paranoid, sought out Nicole in her bedroom and began pummeling her in the back of the head with the hammer. When her daughter still showed signs...

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