Word: manic
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While emotional turmoil is part of being a teenager, Nicole Cabezas is among a growing cohort of kids whose unsteady psyches do not simply rise and fall now and then but whipsaw violently from one extreme to another. Bipolar disorder--once known as manic depression, always known as a ferocious mental illness--seems to be showing up in children at an increasing rate, and that has taken a lot of mental-health professionals by surprise. The illness until recently was thought of as the rare province of luckless adults--the overachieving businessman given to sullen lows and impulsive highs...
...came for Elvis during the 1970s, a time when no worthwhile American Dream stumbled to a halt without first exposing its dark side. Elvis, despite his tremendous success, is generally believed to have been a depressive, even, it has been suggested, manic-depressive, or bipolar. When he died in 1977 from a cardiac arrhythmia, his finances were in wild disarray, he was overweight and (it is believed) he had been abusing alcohol and prescription drugs for years. His private life was also a mess; his marriage to Priscilla Presley had hit the rocks four years earlier...
...depression/This life I'm second-guessing/Like ashes to ashes/I always seem to fall down." On She Loves Me Not he decides that "I'm the jerk." Subtlety is not his forte, and numbness takes over after a few lovehatetragedy tracks. It's a shame, because Shaddix has the manic energy and caterwauling voice of a lightweight metal champ, and Papa Roach is a very tight band. The music rises and crunches in that relentless "Can we top this? Yes, we can!" kind of way that makes heavy metal so much fun. Now if only the lead singer would lighten...
...linking Skakel to the scene. Michael's father Rushton now suffers from dementia. And there were two suspects besides Michael: his brother Thomas, who was the primary focus in the early days of the investigation, and the Skakels' live-in tutor, Kenneth Littleton, who was an alcoholic and a manic-depressive. Two of Michael's brothers and a cousin testified in near unison as to his whereabouts at the time of the murder: he was a 20-minute drive away, watching Monty Python at his cousin's house. Skakel never took the stand, but those present say he mouthed words...
...pilgrims to Shanksville still exude the same manic patriotism that swept the U.S. immediately after Sept. 11. On a recent afternoon, 150 members of Rotary International, brandishing small American flags, descended on the site in three tour buses. The Rev. Duane Slade paid homage to the passengers who went down fighting: "We must recognize those who died to save our country from even greater loss," he intoned, before leading the crowd in a rendition of God Bless America...