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Which is why Teresa Hatten of Fort Wayne, Ind., hesitated little when it came time to put her granddaughter Monica on medication. Hatten's grown daughter, Monica's mom, suffers from bipolar disorder, and so does Monica, 13. To give Monica a chance at a stable upbringing, Hatten took on the job of raising her, and one of the first things she had to do was get the violent mood swings of the bipolar disorder under control. It's been a long, tough slog. An initial drug combination of Ritalin and Prozac, prescribed when Monica was 6, simply collapsed...
Going away to college isn't the same these days. Once upon an All-American time, Mom and Dad unloaded the station wagon as their starry-eyed scholar surveyed the campus with a heart full of hope and a mind on fire with plans. The mood was wistful and optimistic; the future looked bright despite the tearful farewells. But a shadow has fallen among the ivory towers. A growing number of students arrive on campus suffering from depression and other emotional disorders--some diagnosed, some hidden. So that traditional moment of new beginnings is haunted by deep anxiety and gloom...
...just committed a horrendous Columbine-style massacre at their high school, and Little, who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, gets charged as an accessory. Little's desperate attempts to exonerate himself only wind up exposing the venal hypocrisies of the people around him: his mom is obsessed with fancy appliances, an opportunistic TV reporter is obsessed with his career, young women are obsessed with getting rich (except for the ones who have hearts of gold, of course). All dialogue in Vernon God Little is rendered in strenuously lifelike Texan diction ("Six packa Coors...
...Southern breakfast with homemade grits and biscuits. But the Akwaaba isn't burrowed deep in the heart of Dixie or even in some bucolic New England town. The inn, dating to the 1860s, is smack in the middle of Brooklyn, N.Y., just 10 blocks from Bakr's apartment. "Our mom loves the place, so we always go back," Bakr says. "You feel like you're in the country, but you have all the conveniences of the city...
...once a procrastination device for the dorm room has now expanded to even that most hallowed of study spaces. I guess we’ll just have to learn to discipline ourselves…but first I’m going to finish listening to The White Album. Sorry Mom...