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		<title>Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Bipolar Disorder in the US and UK</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We hear a great deal about the American Psychiatric Association&#8217;s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, version IV (DSM-IV) and revision DSM-V which is due to be released in May 2013. What we tend to hear less about in the United States are the World Health Organization&#8217;s ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Pays Your Bills?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago, when my wife was recovering from a major manic episode, she turned over the task of paying our bills and managing the checkbook to me. We were just looking for ways I could help, and that was an easy one. The other day, however, I came across an article by Ginnie Graham [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Starting a NAMI Support Group</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My wife and I and one of our neighbor friends spent part of our weekend in Lafayette, Indiana training to become NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) support group facilitators. We&#8217;re planning to start a support group in our town, Crawfordsville, Indiana later this spring and offer a Family-to-Family course in the fall. I&#8217;ve been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/bipolar/2012/01/nami-support-group/</link>
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		<title>How to Deal with Mail Order Prescription Delays</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maggie asks&#8230; I&#8217;ve messed up my meds by going cold turkey due to difficulties with insurance and lack of funds. Now I have to wait for the mail order prescription and I have not had any lithium for a month. This week I started noticing some of my early signs of my hypomania returning. Tonight, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/bipolar/2012/01/mail-order-prescription-delays/</link>
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		<title>Bipolar Recovery as Transformation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I always thought of recovery from bipolar disorder as a return to the BB (before bipolar) era, but as Class 10 of NAMI&#8217;s Family-to-Family course points out, recovery doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean going back to the &#8220;good old days.&#8221; It&#8217;s often healthier to look at recovery as moving forward – a process of transformation, of becoming [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/bipolar/2011/11/bipolar-recovery-transformation/</link>
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		<title>How Were You Diagnosed?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Bipolar Disorder For Dummies, we point out that as part of the initial work up for bipolar disorder you really should have a complete physical first to rule out any potential medical issues. Other possible diagnoses that may be considered by your doctor include the following: Thyroid malfunction Hormone imbalances Diabetes Mononucleosis Chronic Fatigue [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/bipolar/2011/11/bipolar-diagnosis-protocol/</link>
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		<title>Bipolar Disorder Q&amp;A: Son with Bipolar Disorder Not Getting Treatment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maggie asks&#8230; My 21-year-old was diagnosed with Bipolar I after an extreme manic episode (he was hospitalized). It was a long and difficult few months (awful treatment, bouncing around to different doctors, etc.) during which his mania tapered down, and then turned into a deep black depression, which he is out of now. No one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/bipolar/2011/11/bipolar-son-refuses-treatment/</link>
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		<title>Bipolar Disorder and Aging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently got a call from an aging family member who has suffered with bipolar disorder, untreated for most of his life. He explained to me about the police cars that had &#8220;surrounded&#8221; his home and were &#8220;monitoring&#8221; him, but really were trying to harm him because they were involved in a &#8220;conspiracy with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/bipolar/2011/10/bipolar-disorder-dementia/</link>
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		<title>Son Diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder in 5th Grade Now Adult</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gwen writes&#8230; My son was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in the 5th grade. He is now about to turn 21. He cuts and he cannot hold a job or finish a class at the local community college. His bipolar disorder seems to be more depression-based than manic, or maybe the lithium and Abilify he takes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/bipolar/2011/10/son-diagnosed-bipolar-disorder-as-child-now-adult/</link>
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		<title>Like Kryptonite to Superman: In Honor of World Mental Health Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m currently co-facilitating a NAMI Family-to-Family course. Class 6 is all about medications and includes a very important section on medication adherence. In the class, we discussed the various reasons, many of which are valid, that people with brain disorders stop taking their medications. Atypical antipsychotics, for example, have a nasty reputation for causing significant [...]]]></description>
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