Word: bipolarity
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...depressed. The effect is potentially so significant that the medical profession has begun to focus serious attention and resources on trying to understand what's going on. At a national conference in Washington in November, Evans served as co-chairman of a meeting, sponsored by the nonprofit Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA), to get a better handle on how widespread the problem is. For two days, experts in cancer, AIDS, heart disease, diabetes and other diseases, along with patient advocates, listened to the evidence linking depression with one illness after another...
...expect that they will reduce its deadly impact. So Charney, Evans and other experts want to make physicians more aware of the intimate connection between depression and other illnesses. "When you only have roughly eight minutes with your primary doctor," says Lydia Lewis, president of the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, "it's kind of hard to get into the realm of depression. And when you go to see a specialist, the cardiologist is thinking just about your heart...
...since he doesn't exist. See him rather as a projection of everything the tormented Charlie would like to be: a Hollywood smoothie, entirely uncursed by doubt, depression or dismay at the ratchety workings of the world. And see Adaptation as, at its best, a schizoid, almost bipolar comedy in which a basically glum guy struggles to assert his withered gleeful side...
...said that his mental illness was originally misdiagnosed as paranoid schizophrenia, but was really a combination of bipolar disorder with elements of schizophrenia...
...either to a facility or to the custody of a trained foster family where the child receives intensive care somewhere in the community. Child advocates estimate that 1 in 5 families with mentally ill children in the U.S. has surrendered custody in exchange for treatment of a child with bipolar or some other disorder, including ADHD, schizophrenia or depression...