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Lee Berthiaume, CanWest News Service; Ottawa Citizen

The Province - OTTAWA -- Margaret Trudeau has been waging a secret war for decades. Controversy has followed her ever since she married former prime minister Pierre Trudeau in 1971 at the age of 22. In the ensuing years, she became a controversial figure for her ...

Congressman Kennedy checking into Mayo

KARE - Rep. Patrick Kennedy said Friday he was entering treatment for addiction to prescription pain medication, a decision made after a highly publicized car crash near the Capitol that he said he cannot recall. Kennedy, D-R.I., said he plans to seek ...

Margaret Trudeau reveals secret war with bipolar depression

Kamloops - OTTAWA -- Margaret Trudeau has been waging a secret war for decades. Controversy has followed her ever since she married former prime minister Pierre Trudeau in 1971 at the age of 22. In the ensuing years, she became a controversial figure for her ...

Kennedy explains car crash

Financial Times - Patrick Kennedy, a Rhode Island congressman and scion of the Kennedy family, said on Friday he was seeking treatment for addiction to prescription pain medication after an early-morning car accident near the Capitol that he said he could not remember ...

Depression Could be Bipolar II Disorder - Stepparenting (BellaOnline)

Can’t shake the blues? Chronic depression may be a symptom of bipolar II disorder, a lesser-known version of bipolar I disorder that was formerly known as manic-depression.

Lee Berthiaume, CanWest News Service; Ottawa Citizen

Calgary Herald - OTTAWA -- Margaret Trudeau has been waging a secret war for decades. Controversy has followed her ever since she married former prime minister Pierre Trudeau in 1971 at the age of 22. In the ensuing years, she became a controversial figure for her ...

Depression Could be Bipolar II Disorder - Stepparenting (BellaOnline)

Can’t shake the blues? Chronic depression may be a symptom of bipolar II disorder, a lesser-known version of bipolar I disorder that was formerly known as manic-depression.

1926-1936: A new city hall rises, Depression descends and wine starts ...

Lodi News-Sentinel - Lodi's third decade as an official city was marked by optimistic growth, a new Lodi City Hall, economic wrath from the Great Depression and renewed hope in the future with the revival of the wine industry. By 1926, 20 years after the pioneer railroad ...

A legacy of politics and pain

Lucianne.com - WASHINGTON -- Just five weeks before the car crash that upended his life and career, Patrick J. Kennedy took to the House floor. The quiet-mannered Rhode Island congressman rarely gives fiery speeches, but the issue of helping young people with ...

Margaret Trudeau's secret war

Canada.com - OTTAWA - Margaret Trudeau has been waging a secret war for decades. Controversy has followed her ever since she married former prime minister Pierre Trudeau in 1971 at the age of 22. In the ensuing years, she became a controversial figure for her ...

150 years of Freud

CNN - VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- At the Cafe Freud, a whimsical watering hole two doors down from the apartment where Sigmund Freud plumbed the human psyche, a world-famous poster commands instant attention. It's a cartoon profile of the frowning father of ...

Rep. Patrick Kennedy to Enter Drug Rehab

NewsMax.com - WASHINGTON -- Rep. Patrick Kennedy will enter rehab for addiction to prescription pain medication Friday evening after a highly publicized car crash near the Capitol. Kennedy, D-R.I., plans to seek treatment at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. The ...

Another chapter in Kennedy legacy

Portsmouth Herald - WASHINGTON - Rep. Patrick Kennedy likes to say he’s blessed to have a great family name. That name also can be a curse. Just as each achievement by one of the Kennedy clan adds luster to what be may the closest thing to American royalty, so each ...

Across the nation

Detroit Free Press - Angry conservatives are driving the approval ratings of President George W. Bush and the Republican-led Congress to new lows, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll. The survey of 1,000 adults found: • 33% of the public approves of Bush's job ...

Teen suicide: A 17-year-old tells her story

Portsmouth Herald - "I thought I had a tight rein. I thought I knew what was going on with her. I didn’t ... I didn’t see it coming." Brenda knew her daughter Carrie had been through a lot in her first 17 years of life. Along with the typical stresses of today’s ...

Text of Patrick Kennedy’s statement

Boston Herald - Over my 15 years in public life, I’ve felt a responsibility to speak honestly and openly about my challenges with addiction and depression. I’ve been fighting this chronic disease since I was a young man, and have aggressively and periodically ...

Trouble and triumph: Another chapter in the Kennedy legacy

Woonsocket Call - Rep. Patrick Kennedy likes to say he's blessed to have a great family name. That name also can be a curse. Just as each achievement by one of the Kennedy clan adds luster to what be may the closest thing to American royalty, so each misstep is ...

A legacy of politics and pain

Boston Online - WASHINGTON -- Just five weeks before the car crash that upended his life and career, Patrick J. Kennedy took to the House floor. The quiet-mannered Rhode Island congressman rarely gives fiery speeches, but the issue of helping young people with ...

For Katrina evacuee, a life still adrift

Boston Online - When Jules Wise Jr. walked into the tattoo parlor on a rainy afternoon last winter, he was thinking of love. Her name was Sade, pronounced with a lyric dip -- Sha-Day. They were both 18, evacuees not just from the churning flood waters of Hurricane ...

Film on suicide raises concern

Long Beach Press-Telegram - For 365 consecutive days, filmmaker Eric Steel's cameras panned for impending death atop the Golden Gate Bridge. They found it nearly two dozen times, capturing despondent men and women in the act of jumping from the San Francisco span. Six of the ...

‘He made psychology popular’

Meriden Record-Journal - VIENNA, Austria — At the Cafe Freud, a whimsical watering hole two doors down from the apartment where Sigmund Freud plumbed the human psyche, a world-famous poster commands instant attention. It’s a cartoon profile of the frowning father of ...

Kennedy enters rehab

Boston Online - WASHINGTON -- Less than 36 hours after he crashed into a checkpoint barrier near the Capitol, US Representative Patrick J. Kennedy announced yesterday that he is addicted to pain medication and checked himself into the Mayo Clinic for treatment. It ...

Assisted death law 'could push the vulnerable to suicide' (Daily Telegraph)

Vulnerable people could feel under pressure to commit suicide if a controversial assisted suicide Bill becomes law, according to an opinion poll.

Rep. Kennedy to enter drug rehab program

Canton Repository - WASHINGTON - It has been no secret in Rhode Island and it spilled out across the country Friday: Congressman Patrick Kennedy, 38, son of a senator, nephew of a slain president, scion of the troubled Kennedy clan, suffers from depression and bipolar ...

PMS - A Fact Of Life Or All In The Mind? (Medical News Today)

In her keynote talk: "Premenstrual Syndrome and Self-policing: Constructing and Deconstructing Premenstrual Distress in Lesbian and Heterosexual relationships", Professor Jane M Ussher, puts forward her views to delegates of an international 3-day conference for psychologists held at the University of Leicester, entitled "Qualitative Research and Marginalisation... click link for more info.

Health fair booths offer screenings plus latest medical information

Rapid City Journal - RAPID CITY -- People attending the 24th annual Black Hills Area Health & Human Services Fair on Saturday, April 29, can expect to see the usual medical items that are used to test for high blood pressure, screen for diabetes and check cholesterol ...

Family First: Shortage of Child Psychiatrists Family First: Shortage ...

WSAW - Dr. Christian DeGregorio says children are not really just little adults, they think and perceive everything in their own way and their anxieties can be very real. The doctor with the Aspirus Center for Behavioral Health is one of very few child ...

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