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This Week - September 20, 2004

1. Lexapro Center opens at HealthyPlace.com
2. Parents wary of antidepressants for kids PLUS in-depth coverage on FDA hearings (includes audio)
3. Sex and drug use linked to suicide risk
4. Actress Linda Hamilton on the years lost to bipolar disorder
5. Telepsychiatry for counseling and prescriptions
6. Anorexia: the most deadly mental illness
7. More and more pre-teens dying to be thin
8. Custody battle involves gender of child
9. Schizophrenia: A Family's Journey to Madness and Back
10. Latest Schizophrenia News
11. "Bipolar and all I can think about is sex"
12. Thought for today

Lexapro Center Opens at HealthyPlace.com

The Lexapro Patient Orientation and Contact Center at HealthyPlace.com formally launches this week. The concept behind in The Center is to provide information and support to new and current users of the antidepressant Lexapro.

Inside The Center, you'll find detailed usage, dosage, and side-effect information, including how to better cope with SSRI side-effects.  There are also message boards for visitors to share their own personal experiences.  Click to visit.

Are you wondering if you have depression. Go here to take a depression screening test.

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Parents Wary of Antidepressants for Kids

With the FDA contemplating a "black box" warning for most SSRIs, many parents are concerned about letting their child take an antidepressant - even for serious depression.

FDA hearings, last week, reconfirmed what many already knew - SSRIs increase the risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior in children and teens. Find out more.

Related Stories:

• Antidepressants Urged
  to Have Stern Warnings
• U.S. Reviewer Says Depression Drugs, Suicide Linked
• A Suicide Side Effect? What parents aren't being told about their kids' antidepressants

FDA Panel Urges Stronger Antidepressant Warning
Parents Blame Daughter's Suicide on Zoloft
Mom Credits Prozac with Saving Child's Life

Other Depression Stories

• Sex and Drug Use Linked to Suicide Risk

Linda Hamilton: I Am Bipolar

Tough-talking Linda Hamilton flexed some serious muscles in the Terminator movies, but in real life, the actor says she was battling an illness that threatened to overcome her. Read this story and the companion story where Ms. Hamilton describes the "lost years," urges others to get help.

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Shelter Residents Counseled Via TV

In Arlington, Texas, homeless shelter residents are not only getting counseling via closed-circuit television, but medication prescriptions are also being dispensed for treating serious mental illnesses like bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and depression. Details are here.

Anorexia: The Most Deadly Mental Illness

Tabloids might obsess when celebrities such as Mary-Kate Olsen or Christina Ricci are reported to suffer from anorexia, but scientists have almost ignored the deadly eating disorder--until now. Read more about the use of antipsychotics to treat eating disorders.

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More and More Pre-Teens Dying to Be Thin

The need for programs to treat eating disorders has grown to the extent that at least one eating disorder treatment center has  recently dropped its minimum admission age from 16 to 13.  Read more

Custody Battle Concerns Gender of Child

Gender Identity Disorder is at the center of a custody case In Ohio, where a little boy perceives himself as a girl. Both parents have strong feelings about how the boy should be raised. Here's the story

A Family's Journey to Madness and Back

The 14-year journey from the summer of 1990, when Brandon Staglin was diagnosed with schizophrenia, reveals the tenuousness of reality, the capriciousness of mental illness and the power of a determined family.  This is a must-read inspirational story.

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More Schizophrenia Stories:

• Study Raises New Questions About Causes of Schizophrenia
• Researchers Uncover Gene Associated with Schizophrenia

Additional stories linked from the HealthyPlace.com Thought Disorders Community homepage.

Bipolar Bulletin Board
"Increase in Sex Thoughts"

Amy:

"I don't know why, but lately (ok, for awhile now), I have constantly been thinking about sex. It's kind of like the racing thoughts that I used to have with my mania, except now it's just about sex, and not random thoughts as it was before. I don't think that it has anything to do with the meds that I'm on (lamictal and effexor XR for bipolar II). It's almost like I'm going through puberty all over again or something. I haven't really told anyone about this...and I'm kind of afraid. Before I was diagnosed, I kept everything held in for years, giving the appearance of "happiness" and "normality." I'm also afraid that I'll go on some kind of rampage and start sleeping with or doing anything with anyone, anywhere. Anyone ever feel the same way or have any suggestions?"

Can you help Amy? Respond here.

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Here's something to think about...

"Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves." - Pema Chodron

From all of us here at HealthyPlace.com, we hope you have a good week.

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