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By Ray Duckler The two notebooks, one spiral bound, one pocket sized, were found beside Linda Bishop's body on May 3. They documented the final three months of her life, detailing her search for apples, her hope for the future and, later, her surrender after a decade of chaos. The police found Linda inside an empty house, up for sale, on Mountain Road, a sad resting place for a sad and

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By Ray Duckler The two notebooks, one spiral bound, one pocket sized, were found beside Linda Bishop's body on May 3. They documented the final three months of her life, detailing her search for apples, her hope for the future and, later, her surrender after a decade of chaos. The police found Linda inside an empty house, up for sale, on Mountain Road, a sad resting place for a sad and

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By Kathy Ricketts A 14-year-old girl rolls up her sleeve, takes a razor blade in her right hand and carefully cuts into her forearm. Watching the blood begin to flow, she feels an intense sense of relief. Self-injury is not something people talk about very often. But studies estimate that 2 to 3 million people injure themselves, mainly by cutting with razors, utility knives, scissors, needles,

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By Nancy J. White Denise Difede sat in the audience, stunned. She'd attended the workshop on adolescent girls and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder because of her daughter's diagnosis. But then the speaker described adult women with the disorder – procrastinators, unorganized, bad at time management, problems in relationships. "I thought, 'Omigod, that's me,' " says the mother of three.

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Video of story here. May 19, 2008 Reporter: Jeff Anderson Email Address: jeff.anderson@wrdw.com AUGUSTA--Having a mental illness is something tens of millions of American deal with every single day. It's a staggering figure and ever more staggering is the thought that you probably see several of them every day and don't know the difference. Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, suicide,

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By JIM ADAMS, Star Tribune May 19, 2008 A Lakeville woman was sentenced Monday to six months in jail and up to 10 years' probation in the death of her 11-month-old daughter, who drowned in the bathtub while her mother shopped online for shoes. "I am very sorry for what happened. ... I will have to live with it the rest of my life," Katherine Bodem, 38, said before she was sentenced for

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By Hayes Hickman (Contact) Heads were shaking "no" before the presentation could begin Monday night on a proposal to renovate South Knoxville's vacant Flenniken Elementary School into permanent housing for the chronically homeless. The Martin Mill Pike property is the latest site eyed by officials with Knoxville-Knox County's 10-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness, which takes a "housing

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By Don Thompson SACRAMENTO - California would avoid having to release thousands of state prison inmates early under a possible federal court settlement announced Monday. The proposal was announced by federal court referees who have been brokering a settlement between the state, inmate advocates and law enforcement authorities. At stake if the state ultimately lost the multiple lawsuits it

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By Deborah Schoch Los Angeles Times Staff Writer The Long Beach Police Department did not deploy its pioneering mental health team Saturday night when an officer fatally shot a mentally ill Samoan American man as he left a neighborhood birthday party, a department spokesmen said Monday. Events moved too quickly to call in mental health experts to work with Roketi Su'e, 46, before he was shot

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05/19/08 Carol Scott, right, remembers her husband, Allen Lane Scott, as a devoted husband who lived life with compassion and love for all. A Centre man was convicted of murder last Wednesday morning in the 2005 slaying of Allen Lane Scott in Centre. Circuit Judge Randall Cole sentenced Tol Shropshire, 51, to life in prison in the shooting death. Witnesses during the three-day trial in

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By Kristopher Hanson 05/18/2008 LONG BEACH - A 46-year-old man shot and killed by officers Saturday night suffered from a bipolar disorder and appeared frightened and confused when police confronted him on a busy residential street, neighbors and family said Sunday. Police said residents summoned them to the 3400 block of East 67th Street after Roketi Mose Sue began harassing residents about 7

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By: KARA BASKIN 5/19/2008 Madness: A Bipolar Life | By Marya Hornbacher | Houghton Mifflin | 320 pages | $25 Just reading this book exhausted me, so I can only imagine how tired Marya Hornbacher must have been after writing it. Or perhaps it came easily to her. Most things seem to. Depending on your taste, Horbacher’s casual brilliance is either infuriating or amazing. She has suffered from

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5/19/2008 The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — This city's prison system is not doing enough to care for inmates who suffer from mental illness, according to a review by the National Commission on Correctional Health Care. The Chicago-based nonprofit organization said the Orleans Parish jail facilities do not meet the group's accreditation standards following a review last fall. The

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By Sara Israelsen-Hartley May 19, 2008 SPANISH FORK — Utah County Jail inmate Marcos Flores got his tooth filled recently, but something went wrong and now it's infected. Tuesday afternoon he sat handcuffed to a bench in the medical unit, waiting to see the dentist. "It's good," the inmate said of health services in jail. "But you gotta wait another week if they don't do it right." Each day,

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May 18, 2008 Michael Barrett A local support network is being formed to help people who have lost loved ones to suicide. The new Gastonia chapter of HUGS - Healing and Understanding Grief from Suicide - expects to have its first meeting on June 10. "I feel like the need is here for it," said Lynn McKee, who is helping to establish the local group. McKee, a single mother living in Gastonia,

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By Matthew Roy The Virginian-Pilot May 19, 2008 Mental health providers and city police have teamed up in a program to aid the mentally ill - one that helps resolve crises they experience, and that seeks to keep some nonviolent offenders out of jail. Ten current Portsmouth patrol officers have gotten 40 hours of special instruction in dealing with people who have mental problems. And mental

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May 18, 2008 PORTSMOUTH — At 60 years old, resident Rose Houle feels for the first time in her life she is a contributing member of society. For many years, she was in and out of hospitals as she dealt with severe mental illness. She collected disability, lived with unsupportive family members and said she felt a lack of self-worth. "I never felt like a real American until I started working,"

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Les Blumenthal WASHINGTON - Two nightmares haunt Robin Milonas. While serving in Afghanistan in 2004 as an Army Reserve civil affairs officer, the former lieutenant colonel got lost in a minefield while leading a small convoy delivering school supplies to civilians. Even more troubling is the memory of a man who arrived at the main gate of Bagram Air Base carrying a young boy whose leg had been

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Commentary: Eli Hashemi The reality of ending the war is bringing home 155,000 U.S. troops from Iraq. Thus far, 29,628 are seriously wounded and 20 percent of those involve serious brain or spinal injuries. These numbers exclude psychological injuries. More than 30 percent of soldiers develop mental health problems within three to four months of returning back home, the No. 1 problem of these

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Editorial Sunday, May 18 2008, 11:44 pm THE ISSUE Gov. Mike Easley's budget POINTS OF DEBATE Easley is pushing for increases taxes on cigarette and beer to bring in $165 million to feed his spending frenzy THE STAR'S VIEW If lawmakers agree with Easley's plan, they can find ways to make it work that don't involve tax increases Gov. Mike Easley could have chosen to put together a budget in

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Editorial Sunday, May 18 2008, 11:44 pm THE ISSUE Gov. Mike Easley's budget POINTS OF DEBATE Easley is pushing for increases taxes on cigarette and beer to bring in $165 million to feed his spending frenzy THE STAR'S VIEW If lawmakers agree with Easley's plan, they can find ways to make it work that don't involve tax increases Gov. Mike Easley could have chosen to put together a budget in

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Accompanying video here. Bipolar disorder is a mystery and a subject of medical debate. But for the Blakes, it's just reality. By Mary Carmichael Max Blake was 7 the first time he tried to kill himself. He wrote a four-page will bequeathing his toys to his friends and jumped out his ground-floor bedroom window, falling six feet into his backyard, bruised but in one piece. Children don't really

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By KIM HORNER khorner@dallasnews.com Dallas' new homeless center opens Tuesday with great expectations: Expectations that fewer people will sleep on downtown sidewalks. That fewer of the homeless will cycle through the jail and psychiatric wards. That they will get more help. The center, called The Bridge, is designed to provide mental health and addiction treatment and place people in homes

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Although the following originally ran in the Philadelphia Inquirer on May 11, it was reprinted in a number of national newspapers May 18. By Gail Shister Had Tony Soprano been under his care, Aaron Beck says he could have cured his panic attacks in two sessions. Bada-bing that, Sigmund Freud. Instead, Dr. Melfi kept the Sopranos mob boss on the couch for years with traditional psychoanalysis,

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by D. Ashley Verrill Staff Reporter NORTH BAY – As county mental health budgets are trimmed, community clinics have taken over the responsibility of non-acute mental health care and now may be the area’s most promising defense against costly emergency room visits. North Bay clinic leaders have increasingly taken on the role of trying to limit serious mental health incidents by asking primary

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