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Monday, June 16, 2003
posted by gbarto at 10:32 AM:
Raiders center's battle not overInteresting. That battle is getting bipolar disorder under control; he had been self-medicating with booze and missed the Super Bowl as a result. His team lost, and his absence gets part of the blame. I guess we can put that down to a very high cost for not recognizing and treating mental and emotional illness. It's good to see this being talked about a little. I hope his teammates will let him try to make it up to them, but I have to warn that ups and downs are quite possible, even probable in the first few months. After that - well, he's got the best docs and probably won't be as worried as others as to the amazing costs of the different mood levelers, antipsychotics, etc. that are at the forefront of treating the disorder. In the meantime, hope for new understanding:
Scientists Find Manic-Depression Gene
Incidentally, there's a battle raging over terminology. This article uses bipolar and manic-depression almost interchangeably. Some do that, others have specific meanings for each, others favor bipolar because its sufferers don't all flip between the same poles. The most common form has euphoria and depression poles, but a variant, bipolar II has mania/anxiety and depression poles and every case is special in its own way with components of personality outside the disease (including innate components and those affected by family and social background) playing a role in ease of treatment, nature of attacks, etc. As far as I understand and observe, in any case.
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