Word: bipolarized
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...thank god that you published this story on bipolar youngsters [BEHAVIOR, Aug. 19]. Now if only the public would "get it" and understand this illness, which used to be referred to as manic depression. Three years ago, I lost my 19-year-old son to suicide. No one listened to me when I said he was mentally ill and needed help. People concentrated on his behavior, not to mention my parenting. Counselors, psychologists, a hospital mental ward (twice), psychiatrists--we went through all that before his diagnosis. All those years of trying to find help, fighting the system...
...have no doubt that many valid cases of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, depression and bipolar disorder exist and need treatment. I fear, however, that we are overdiagnosing and overdrugging our kids at an alarming rate. KIM KLAYUM Eagan, Minn...
...experience suffering that no child should know. Thank you for opening a door that has been closed far too long. Our hope lies in the research that is so long overdue. These children are in desperate need of better treatment, medication and better outcomes. CHRISTINA P. FAY, PRESIDENT Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation Pawling...
...have suffered from this disorder since I was a child, and my life has been hell, even with four years of college. Many people who are bipolar live badly, without much money or any kind of career. We are mostly members of the underclass, tenants of trailer parks and people who do menial jobs. It is not easy. We are not, like bipolar author Lizzie Simon, part of the middle class. Sorry, but the happy ending she wrote about is simply not true for most of us. Manic-depressive illness usually ends badly. ALBERT BARR Seneca...
WHAT HAS GONE WRONG: Bipolar patients have a 40% loss of the serotonin 1a receptor in the raphe, which may contribute to atrophy of neurons and depression...