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Mental Health Notes thinks TMZ.com has made an A.S.S. of themselves

By Jerry • Feb 19th, 2008 • Category: ADHD in the News, Bipolar Disorder in the News

Alicia Sparks of Mental Health Notes has awarded what she calls the A.S.S. Award (for Mental Health Notes’ Abusive Supporter of Stigma).  Miss Sparks is granting this award based on an article published by TMZ.com titled Are Dairy and Milk Making Brit Split?, in which the author makes more than one rather provocative and supposedly cute “quips” about bipolar disorder and schizophrenia in connection with claims from PETA that certain cases of the condition may be worsened by the consumption of meat and dairy products.

Regardless of whether the research from PETA is valid or whether I agree with their…



Bipolar Disorder in the News, September 11, 2007

By Jerry • Sep 11th, 2007 • Category: Bipolar Disorder in the News, In the News

Manic Kids and Out-of-Control Toddlers: Fact or Problem?
NewsReleaseWire.com (press release) - USA
Over the past decade, research funded by NIMH found that bipolar disorder in children and adolescents “has increased 40 times” and that the “diagnoses…far …
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