Word: bipolarized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Bebe Moore Campbell: I have a mentally ill family member. So I've been coping with my loved one's disease, which is bipolar disorder, for about nine years. That really opened the door for my learning about mental illness, about 72-hour holds, about mania and episodes, and everything that I touch upon in the book...
Bestselling author Bebe Moore Campbell has written a moving, heartfelt story of a divorced mother, Keri, struggling to help Trina, her bipolar 18-year-old daughter, who has become paranoid and wild. The ?72-hour hold? to which her title refers is the period for which the law allows Keri to be detained involuntarily before she can sign herself out of a psychiatric facility. We caught up with Campbell, who lives in Los Angeles, by phone on her book tour...
...compare bipolar disease to slavery...
...Bipolar disorder exists in a little more than 1.5% of the population - several million people. The latest research says that mental illness is increasing. Depression and anxiety disorders happen more frequently than do disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. One out of four families will face mental illness in their lifetime. These diseases cannot be cured at this point, but they can be controlled with a combination of therapy, sometimes medication. Certainly having a good diet, basic and proper nutrition is helpful. Also, in many cases, designing your life so that it is as stress-free as possible...
...that an assembly-line worker with carpal tunnel syndrome wasn't covered by the antidiscrimination law. Still, as a judge, Roberts has come down on the side of workers, ruling in favor of an employee who accused Washington's transit authority of having fired him because he suffers from bipolar disorder. He upheld the district court ruling because he said the transit authority received federal funds and thus was obliged to follow federal laws governing terminations. Upcoming Cases: One involves whether workers at meat-processing plants should be paid for the time it takes them to get to their work...