Manic Spending Puts Bipolar Patients at Risk for Financial Woes
Many bipolar people already live in a boom-or-bust financial cycle, independent of the current economy. Spending sprees, after all, are common during manic periods. However, mania can be triggered by stress, which is naturally higher during an economic crisis like the one Americans are facing now. [...]
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Some interesting mental health articles
Saturday, 6 December 2008
Shanghai man leaves his mentally disabled wife on the side of the road
Wednesday, 24 September 2008
Where she got into an traffic accident and was killed.
Li Jun and his wife Zhao Xue were married nine years ago. He knew that she had a history of mental illness but they decided to get married anyway.
Later on, she became too unstable. When she got pregnant, he had her committed to an institution [...]
Don’t drink the milk…more Chinese dairy companies found to have melamine in their products
Friday, 19 September 2008
Mengniu, Yili, and Guangming products were, after investigation, found to have melamine, the chemical in the milk powder responsible for making over 1000 children sick. These companies — the big three — cover the large part of the market, which means there is a good chance that the dairy products you are using comes [...]
Woman with 6 paralyzed/disabled relatives kills her own daughter
Wednesday, 16 July 2008
In Shaanxi province: a woman named Li Chenghui was living with six disabled people. The article title in Chinese might be misleading because it implies that they are all mentally disabled. However, it seems that Li’s parents are both mutes (her father was severely injured in an accident, but not necessarily mentally disabled), and her [...]