Word: bipolarized
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...pediatrician, I often find myself becoming uneasy as I write a prescription for an antidepressant, mood stabilizer or stimulant. When medication is unsuccessful, I am reminded that a drug will not help an abused or neglected child feel safer or manage a parent with a poorly controlled bipolar disorder. A child's behavior, in large part, is influenced by his environment: witnessing or experiencing abuse will cause anxiety and depression; an empty stomach will contribute to distraction, loss of interest and a sullen state of mind. Before prescribing a drug for mood and behavior, health-care providers must consider genetic...
According to Mammone, he is suing Harvard for failing to recognize that behavior during and leading up to his arrest was the manifestation of his bipolar psychiatric diagnosis...
...society it is still the case that mental disorders may be misunderstood, seen as frightening, belittled or treated as a moral taint rather than an illness. Such stigmatizing attitudes are entirely wrong. Modern science makes it quite clear that depression, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, ADHD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and other mental disorders are diseases of the brain. Just like diabetes or heart disease, mental disorders have their roots in the interaction of genetic and non-genetic risk factors. Just like these other medical disorders, the symptoms reflect abnormal physiology—in the case of mental disorders, abnormal physiology...
...depression, anxiety disorders and other mental disorders apparently increasing on campus? No one knows with certainty, but there are several hypotheses that are not mutually exclusive. Mental disorders (including very serious illnesses such as bipolar disorder) are being increasingly recognized in children and teens. Whether, as is likely, this represents new recognition of an old phenomenon or whether ages of onset are dropping (as they are for some other medical illnesses such as diabetes mellitus type II) is still a matter of contention. In addition, in the not very distant past, many young people with mental disorders might not have...
...Tony Ball passed. The only father/son crack appeared when senior said BSkyB will miss a goal of €575 revenue per customer. "We don't see any reason to change those targets," James retorted. Is that any way to talk to your FA - chairman? - By Mark Halper Stock Went Bipolar, Too U.S. drugs giant Merck called an end to clinical trials of its anti-depressant drug aprepitant - six years in the works - after tests showed it failed to treat depression effectively...