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...
...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...
Janis Adams, an electric-company employee in Waynesville, Mo., knows her local mental-health system well. Her son Caleb Quesenberry, who has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, has been in and out of hospitals for a decade. Caleb, now 13, would routinely visit the hospital for a week or so, be stabilized and then go home. But in the fall of 2001, after he grabbed two knives and threatened to kill himself and his mother when she asked him not to watch a cartoon, Adams realized that Caleb needed more intensive care...
...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...