bipolar?'m clinically -- >> you've been diagnosed -- >> i've been diagnosed. i'm medited. and the medication's working right now. i mean as any person watching this who knows anything the, you know, the medications have to be adjusted constantly, because your brain sneaks around it, you know? your brain is like the, your bipolar brain is like the soldiers. and your sanity is like the civilians. >> help me understand what the experience of bipolarity is, what happens to you? >> well, you know, when you're depressed, you know, it's like the world has ended. even getting out of bed takes the most massive aunt of effort. but when you're manic, oh, it's so addicting. you know, i have finished novels in two weeks in manic stages. just staying up, you know, two days in a row writing and great stuff often. i mean, you're crazy. so, you get these incredible images. you know, forget yo yo ma's cello. i mean, it ends up being, you know, i'm, well, i'm hearkening back to somebody like sylvia plath, you kn

i am severely bipolar they call it bipolar rapid cycling borderline schizophrenia bipolar disorder creates noise in your brain that is constant voices come from this way and voices come from that way and it's really like being possessed by satan the nuances of mental illness require the nuances of different medications to turn down the mania because when i go off manic it is tornado. this is sarah quo extended release. take at night this is depakote which i take twice a day abilify which oppression do cause that sodium so i compute new vigil ambiens symbolic sim best in were as a pam a lortab zoloft seroquel extended release again aspirin and just marijuana. so that's it. how many actual pills do i take a day. twenty or more so this is the healthiest i have been ever both mentally and physically they drugs are doing their thing. and they're working. it's rare that i give in to any of the side effects although i have them every day . from iowa city iowa. born and raised here. joining the i would national guard when i was seventeen years old as a medic with the one on one medical company. i

not what you would expect when you hear bipolar. she suffers from bipolar ii.ts of lows. bipolar ii, lows are low and long. her representative is saying she is just being proactive. she said in the past she does want to keep an eye on her health. she wants to make sure she does that in the best way. she is checking in, according her representative, kind of as a proactive precautionary way. >> good luck to her. >> yes. >> have you heard of hoopnotica? >> i have not. >> i didn't know about it until today. apparently the latest craze for weight loss. kelly osbourne says she lost 70 pounds by hoola-hooping. essentially. a device similar to a hula-hoop. using it every day. made her back stronger, waist has gone down two inches. no arguing with the pictures. right? >> she looks incredible. >> big in hollywood. we were hula-hooping here on set about a month ago. i was out of breath. really, really fast. >> and in the commercial break you told me you have taken it on as a hobby and do it every day. >> is that what i said? i don't remember saying that. okay. >> you said

disorder she gets the patient she says they're on all the wrong medications they're not bipolar they're depressed and then her job is to titrate the patient off these medications and get him on perhaps one medication for depression and this is a future of psychiatry you could think about which is psychiatry is detox psychiatry more and more they're dealing with the poly pharmacy generated by primary care and in this case they asked the question their primary care doctor is writing all these atypical annecy comics we have millions of people that are being prescribed psychiatric medications sometimes appropriate use but a large part of that population is being prescribed psychiatric medication where it may not be warranted or indicated. but it's and to me. i. feel it's easy to. believe. it's. such liberties. i. get. international airport in the very heart of moscow. i think how the v.a. system is set up right now you don't have to be going to therapy to get the drugs prescribe you the medication if you want therapy they filmed the entire session which is extremely uncomfortable and they h

disorder she gets the patients she says they're on all the wrong medications they're not bipolar they're depressed and then her job is to titrate the patient off these medications and get him on perhaps one medication for depression this is a future of psychiatry you could think about which is psychiatry is detox psychiatry more and more they're dealing with the poly pharmacy generated by primary care and in this case they asked the question their primary care doctor is writing all these atypical and i say comics we have millions of people that are being prescribed psychiatric medications sometimes appropriate use but a large part of that population is being prescribed psychiatric medication where it may not be warranted or indicated. but it's in to be. wealthy british style. such. hot. markets why not. come to find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cause a report on. this is is trash to get rid of. but it's also a treasure. it's worth fighting for. and a trap was no way out. i me

superstar catherine zeta-jones checking into rehab, of course, suffering bipolar disorder.est. we'll have an update this morning. >>> ole! >> what's that? is something sizzling? must have been because it was latin night in "dancing with the stars." aly raisman and her partner mark scored at the top of the leaderboard. lara? >> she's really coming on. >> i adore him. >>> sherri shepherd is with us weighing in on that and talking about her new book. >> so much ahead. >>> let's get started with the utah pediatrician charged with killing his ex-wife. john brickman wall faces first degree murder charges in the 2011 slaying. and he'll make his first court appearance later today. abc's gio benitez is here with that. >> reporter: she was a 49-year-old biologist at the university of utah at the height of her career. right now the mystery, was she murdered, or did she kill herself? it took 18 months for police to name the suspect. how did uta von schwedler end up dead in her bathtub? this morning investigators say she was murdered at the hands of her ex-husband, john brickman wall, a

drew, jake tapper here, how is bipolar 2 disorder different from other similar disorders including bipolar're differentiated by how severe the manias are. some people become hypomanic, and it is an easy thing to identify. we have seen people on tv have meltdowns and become manic and have derailed thoughts and disconnected thinking and very -- don't need much sleep and very expansive. but that can flip into a full blown manic episode where people are disconnected from reality, can throw off their cloething ad that's a more serious condition. but the fact is both are medically managed. the only thing i have concerns about as it pertains to catherine zeta-jones is tiptoeing around the idea of this being called a health care facility. we have a sort of common understanding of rehab these days and that's sort of a whitewash of god knows what people are talking about when they say rehab. now we have another level, which is some sort of health care facility. just probably, probably a psychiatric hospital, where you get psychiatric management and she'll be fine and she may need it again some day b

apparently for treatment of bipolar disorder.ated for the condition, which is characterized by dramatic mood swings. >> according to her publicist, quote catherine has said she's committed to periodic care in order to manage her health in an optimum manner. >> talk about it with dr. drew pinsky, host of "dr. drew on call" wednesday 9:00 p.m. on hln. dr. drew when i read about this, the fact she's being sent to a facility is that fairly common for someone who has bipolar 2 disorder and what sort of treatment would one receive? >> absolutely. listen, catherine zeta-jones needs to be commended for the manner in which she has reported her bipolar disorder. this is one of the most common psychiatric conditions, it has a medical treatment, it a chronic illness very much like diabetes or asthma, and it requires frequent tuneups,ustments in medication and sometimes hospitalization. she's been very matter of fact about it and that is precisely the way to deal with thisheadline that she needs to be in a hospital to have her medication adju

so, you know, once again, it's a very bipolar existence. you know, this, you know, knowing that democrats, by and large, are going to support us more. but still behaving like republicans. you know, it occurs to me it's like a big city republicans, who live these incredibly liberal, secular lives in the city, while espousing small town religious politics. >> you're, so different from how i expected you to be, quite frankly, because i have never met you. although one of my producers met you some years ago, 11 years ago, i think, rick fields. and i have a clip of the piece that we ran on my show then about you from seattle. take a peek. >> but my dad, that alcoholic nomad, he used to leave my family for days or weeks at a time drinking and roaming. and i would lie awake all night waiting for him to come home, and five or six times i cried myself sick into the hospital. and i'd lie awake in the kids' ward, ignoring the night shift nurses who came in and said, "please, try and get a little sleep." so maybe i learned how to be an insomniac becaus

. >> we are also seeing first break and xie ty anxieties and bipolar and more significant challenges in the counselling center. >> by looking at specific indicators of distress. the resource in training program paid by california mental health authority programs. >> before the nervousness turned into anxiety and the sadness turned into depression and then we move towards real extreme live cases. >> they had a proactive plan in place for a while. >> it's been successful to identify somebody in concern that we can assemble this team and looking at the way to keep them help and keeping them safe. >> think the training should extend to the students. >> that are maybe having trouble. >> reporter: all uc campuses will launch ther the next year california develop a similar resources for student to help their peers, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> tonight two men are under arrest, one of the suspects was brought by a plain to ontario following his arrest, police say the two are not u.s. citizens. there was no evidence the iranian states were in involved. numerous reports indicate a focus from train

he was away from washington for much of year and under went treatment for bipolar discord. >> former president george w. bush made the announcement that his daughter gave birth to a baby girl last night in new york city. the maybe's name is margaret laura. mr. bush says that both mom and baby are healthy and the family can't be happier. a lot of people let their feet do the talking today. the cause behind this run in the district today. >> and is it for three or a giant ego. the comment that he landed justin bieber in hot water tonight. >> drivers everywhere taking notice. >> you're watching abc 7 news at 6:00:30 on your side. >> not sure if it is reason to rejoice but drivers across the area are a little happier these days. >> gas prices are continuing to drop making for a lighter load on people's wallets. we're going to go live to bob who is in laurel with the latest. >> indeed. it is something to smile about. i found gas here in laurel for $3.35 for regular. that is about .20 below the national average. experts tell us it may be hard to believe that they could drop lower sooner th

. >> who has bipolar oftentimes we have to be honest. they have been acute break as someone who has had patience as a close associate i yield back. >> thank you so much for being with us today. misery ask people to get ready for the second panel and continue with the previous hearing after newtown and also hippa we are exploring the issues of a wide range but to make it there a clear for the audience to those watching at no time does this committee at any time communicate that those as mental illness that is a response for violence. we recognize that they're more likely to be victims of violent crime is very important we understand that. the second panel we have dr. dr. martini and its share of department of psychiatry. for full disclosure was at the children's house of his third he was one of my students. how time flies. also dr. carolyn caffeine -- levine and especially during transition health care settings and then mr. wolf is the father of a son who suffered from mental illness and mr. kelly is also a father of a sudden with mental

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they included anorexia and schizophrenia and bipolar disease. >>> it was nice out there today. it did cool off 10-15 degrees in some places. 78 in fairfield. 77 in antioch. 72 in morgan hill. 70 in san jose. right now it is warm outside. san francisco, you get a sea breeze coming in. sea breeze at san francisco international airport. away from the sea breeze, 70s but that will change and temperatures drop into the 50s. over night lows will be chilly because this weather system slid through. over night lows tonight will be in the mid-40s. upper 40s and low 40s into the north and east bay counties. chilly as you get moving around friday morning. cooler than this morning. highs tomorrow come up a couple degrees. it was a brief knock down in the temperatures and then they will climb bag up. tomorrow clearing skies. warmer. couple degrees. weekend, dry forecast, with cooler weather into sunday and that is the main weather feature, sunday night and monday period, might get a weak system and might create strong winds on sunday night into monday. not dissimilar from last weekend. here

does that compare to a campaign office developing a strategy to bring in someone's bipolar disorder asate line of attack in a political race? >> i don't see what one has to do with the other. they seems to be completely different. as for bugging his office, i think you should have a check your cell phone at the door policy or something, because that seems to me the more likely way that somebody got a recording of what was in there, and then leaked it. this is speculation on my part. >> watergate, they are still talking about watergate. >> it haunts washington on a legal basis. this is what happens in brainstorming sessions. i think it's interesting for people around the country to hear an unfiltered version of how these conversations go, but i think there are conversations like this happening in many campaigns all over the place. that doesn't mean it would have led to a specific discussion, but i think it's informative of the unpleasant way our system works. >> i would never have this conversation in front of the candidate or the senator. for your viewers at home, decipher his long ans

the situation for people with severe mental illness, and by that i'm referring to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. but it includes a wide range of psychiatric disorders. that their challenges certainly overlap with the, the two populations that, that dave and neli just mentioned. and, oh, about half of them have substance abuse problems of the severe mentally ill group. the, the challenges that they have are, are not what you might expect. the first thing that pops into people's heads might be, or often is, that they have psychiatric symptoms that prevent them from working. and that turns out not to be the biggest barrier. there are a range of things that really interfere with their getting into employment. they want to work. the majority of them want to work. our statistics suggest over two-thirds want to work. even though, as you indicated earlier, a very small percentage, maybe as little as 10 percent in some of our surveys, are actually working at a given time. there's a big gap there. and the reasons, the barriers, include the lack of manner. this person needs to be able to empower

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important to distinguish between making diagnosis, i think the diagnosis of schizophrenia or bypass bipolar is very clearly state. the fact that one has an illness or not is not in the criteria. >> we have an audience. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> we have an audience question for eduardo vega. for the severely mentally ill, involuntary measures and current use are chaotic and traumatic. we talked about the current system, on the other hand laura's law provides community service with know forced meds. why would you be against it? >> why has laura's law be implemented in one small rural county. i think part of the answer is we do have good community services and support in san francisco and we have the best in the country and funded through the mental health services act. do they solve all the problems? absolutely not. do we need more? absolutely. to bring an additional court process that threatens people with enforcement measures and takes away right to self determination is at the core of this. the people that run the program in nevada county. the program that provisions the services, that

winner catherine zeta-jones has checked into a health care facility to deal with her mild case of bipolar 2 disorder. the actress first sought treatment in 2011 to cope with the stress of the cancer diagnosis of husband michael douglas. >>> so how did carrie mulligan get the starting role in "the great gatsby"? she surprised leo with a kiss right in the middle of the audition. right there she got the part. somehow i think that's not the first time that's happened to that guy in these auditions. >> why did it work this time? >> certainly did. there's the kiss right there. >>> the wrongful death trial of michael jackson heated up as opening statements were made on monday. aeg live is looking to prove it was not liable for the pop star's untimely death. the company's attorneys said the civil case will bring to light, quote, some ugly stuff about jackson's private behavior. >> do we need to hear more? >> we really don't want to hear the ugly stuff. they actually played a song. you see that drawing of michael jackson's mother crying. a song he had sung during that hearing, and it brought every

an attorney said curtis has be diagnosed as bipolar. >>> a disgraced justice of the peace is chargedith the murders of a texas director. eric lyle williams was arrested saturday. his wife named her husband as the gunman. williams was convicted on theft charges last year. he lost his law license and job as a result. the slain da and assistant prosecuted that case. kim williams is charged with murder. authorities allege she was the get away driver. >>> a state audit finds the state failed to collect as much as $22 million meant for causes ranging from the environment to veterans. the department of motor vehicles undercharged and famed to collect fees on inactive plates. a separate investigation last year found that money from a september 11th memorial plate was diverted to other use. >>> twitter launched a new music discovery app today. the app is called hashtag music. it suggests songs and music users may like. the songs are streamed through other subscription based services. it runs on the iphone. >>> back to our continuing coverage of the boston marathon bombings. surveillance video

there have been some studies looking at individuals with bipolar disorders as well as skwiz schizophrenia. 40-60 percent have systems of lacking awareness. what this means is basically there is damage to certain pathways of the brain responsible for self reflection and self awareness. this has been shown in neurology for individuals after they have had strokes with particular areas of the brain that have been damaged, has also been shown for individuals with dementia and in my clinical experience and my personal experience with my family member, it's very clearly an issue in mental health as well. the dilemma is that if there are individuals who are biologically unable to self reflect and have an awareness of their illness, they oftentimes very frequently will not want to engage with treatment and do not see themselves as needing treatment. and this is beyond psychological denial, kind of realizing deep down that there is an issue but not wanting to accept it. it's also beyond simple stubbornness. it's a natural inability to realize that there may be something wrong. one particularly pert