Word: bipolarized
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...Carbens had sent John to countless counseling sessions, two weeks of psychiatric observation at a local hospital and another stint in an outpatient therapeutic program. He was found to have bipolar disorder and was prescribed lithium, but he took the drug only sporadically. Desperate, the Carbens made the wrenching decision to send their son someplace that could impose the discipline they had been unable to give him at home. Mary found Spring Creek in a Google search for military schools. She and Randy were impressed by the "40 referrals" from ecstatic parents that the school sent them. "I didn...
Regardless of the similarities, New Haven does foster a certain anti-Harvard attitude. Countless Yalies, friends and one particularly ferocious Yale tour-guide trying to convince me that Harvard was not fun, cut-throat competitive, very nerdy, snobbishly intellectual and would probably make me suicidal, depressed, bipolar and schizophrenic by the end of first semester...
That doesn't mean that the risk of suicide from antidepressant drugs is nonexistent. For example, there is reason to believe that children with bipolar disorder, in which periods of depression alternate with manic states, may be particularly susceptible to suicidal acts if they are given antidepressants alone. And doctors have long known that patients in the early stages of recovery from depression--by whatever means--are, paradoxically, more likely to commit suicide...
...WRITE IN YOUR BOOK ABOUT DISCOVERING IN 2001 THAT YOU HAD BIPOLAR DISORDER. DID YOU HAVE ANY INKLING BEFORE THAT...
...when you go off them make you slow down ... At some point I was depressed. It wasn't debilitating; I was still working at Dateline. But I was taking an antidepressant, and apparently it was a kind that shouldn't be prescribed for someone with a predisposition for bipolar disorder, which I had never known...