Word: bipolarity
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...confessions, is here nudged towards the technologically deviant complexity of Tortoise, who are in turn obliged to accommodate Oldham’s tendency for a quieter style of shoe-gazing. Still, both groups are accomplished and thoughtful, and when both make concessions, they lend some old tunes some new bipolar beauty. —Staff writer Henry M. Cowles can be reached at hmcowles@fas.harvard.edu...
...month ago, Tracy Patterson was simply a woman with more than her fair share of sickness. With multiple birth defects, chronic pain, asthma and bipolar disorder, Patterson, 35, struggled to get by on $832 a month in disability assistance. But at least one thing in her life was taken care of. California's Medicaid program paid for more than a dozen medications every month. "I always got my meds on time," she says. That changed on Jan. 1, when Medicare's prescription-drug benefit went into effect. Patterson was one of 6.2 million people automatically shifted into the program from...
...then learned that under the terms of her policy, she would have to pay $308.68 for a month's supply of morphine, which she takes for her chronic pain. "I flipped out," she says. "First I was shocked, then I started crying. Now I'm just numb. I'm bipolar. I'm kind of getting depressed." Patterson sobs at the idea of borrowing money she can't pay back. "Whoever voted this into policy was a bunch of jerks, and they never knew what it was like to live on a fixed income and have to have medication...
...have high antioxidant activity, and it doesn't cause those fishy burps. A good starting dose of fish oil of any kind is 1g a day. Higher doses, up to 10g a day, have been used, with varying results, to treat such diverse conditions as depression, attention deficit disorder, bipolar disorder and even autism...
...across the street from Alpizar's. "He loved it here. He has a flag up in his backyard all the time." But Gunther and other neighbors say they were not aware of Alpizar's mental disorder, which does not surprise some mental-health experts. About 2.3 million Americans have bipolar disorder, a condition in which a person's mood can swing from depression to euphoria. But "there is still a stigma about saying 'I have a mental illness,'" says William Pollack, a psychologist at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., who has consulted for the Secret Service...