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Bipolar Diagnosis in Children Often Harmful
Garrison, NY -- Troubled children diagnosed with bipolar disorder may fare better with a different diagnosis, according to researchers at The Hastings Center.

Serious Disturbances In Children's Moods And Behaviors: Broad Application Of Bipolar Diagnosis May Do More Harm Than ...
Troubled children diagnosed with bipolar disorder may fare better with a different diagnosis, according to researchers at The Hastings Center. The researchers support an emerging approach, which gives many of those children a new diagnosis called Severe Mood Dysregulation (SMD) or Temper Dysregulation Disorder with Dysphoria (TDD). The findings come soon after proposed revisions to the American ...

Over-Diagnosis of Bipolar May Harm Children
In the mid-1990s the criteria for a diagnosis of bipolar disorder was informally significantly expanded to include children. A new study examines the impact of this shift with the suggestion that troubled children diagnosed with bipolar disorder may fare better with a different diagnosis. Researchers at The Hastings Center support an emerging approach which gives many [...]

Bipolar teen missing from Sunrise home
SUNRISE Police are asking the public for help finding a 16-year-old Sunrise girl who has been missing for more than two months.

More Inmates With Mental Illness Refuse Post-Prison Help
More inmates with mental illness are refusing help in making the transition from prison to the free world even as advocates are suing Ohio to force the state to do more for them, state records show.

More mentally ill Ohio inmates refuse post-prison help
COLUMBUS, Ohio — More mentally ill inmates are refusing help in making the transition from prison to the free world even as advocates are suing Ohio to force the state to do more for them, state records show. Nearly one in four mentally ill inmates either declined post-release services or never showed up for their prison appointment in the state fiscal year ending in June 2009, according to a ...

More ill Ohio inmates refuse post-prison help
COLUMBUS (AP) - More mentally ill inmates are refusing help in making the transition from prison to the free world even as advocates are suing Ohio to force the state to do more for them, state records show.

Celia Imrie interview: 'It kills me to think what I put my mother through...'
As she prepares for a play about a child who is bipolar, actress Celia Imrie tells Olga Craig about her own teenage struggle with anorexia.

Bipolar N.H. Artist Found Frozen in Snow
When those with bipolar disorder and schizohphrenia go off medications, they risk foul play and self-endangerment. Schizophrenia - Bipolar disorder - Mental health - Health - Disorders

Bipolar N.H. Artist Found Frozen in Snow
Those who go off meds for bipolar and schizophrenia risk foul play, self-injury. Schizophrenia - Bipolar disorder - Mental health - Health - Disorders