Word: thanked
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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 found the well over 1 million youngsters and their families who live with this disorder every day! These children 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...
...here!" A rescue worker responds, "Do you see the light?" She doesn't, so she bangs a chunk of stone against the concrete over her. The rescuers find the noise. When she reaches her left hand out through an opening, one of the workers can grab it. OH GOD, THANK...
...relish notoriety--"I didn't wake up one morning and say, 'Gee, I'm going to sue the President!'"--and she is intensely protective of her private life. As a lawyer, she has a natural antipathy to being interviewed--she likes to be the one asking the questions, thank you. She will not allow her husband or children to be named in the media. And she is terrified that her colleagues--or worse yet, Mukasey--will think she is grandstanding...
...Thank you for your informative article on Camp Heartland, the Minnesota summer camp for youngsters with HIV and AIDS [Society, Aug. 12]. I believed that prejudice against kids with AIDS was a thing of the past, but your story shows that ignorance and hysteria are still with us. It is mind-boggling how people can single out a few defenseless children for rejection because they are ill. BILL HEINMILLER Athens...