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Dementia Behind Bars

A combination of lengthy mandatory minimum prison sentences, increasing numbers of life sentences and reduced opportunities for parole means that prisons are having to care for much higher numbers of aging men and women. Human Rights Watch's report, published January 2012, highlights a number of issues caused by an aging prison population. In the... Read moreChevron
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I work 4 days a week as a Performing Arts teacher at a Special School. I occasionally exhibit portraits and still life works as a neo-realist collage artist. I am in a relationship for 4 months with a guy who's mother is bipolar. I've been diagnosed for nearly 9 years, and I'm almost 28 years old.
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New on this Site

Hi all, just introducing myself to everybody.  I'm new on this site, and looking forward to reading about common experiences and problems that many of us share, as well as offering words of advice where I can.  I've been dealing with this illness for almost nine years, and I would say I'm relatively functional, although I have had my ups... Read moreChevron
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OEF/OIF Veterans Mood and Brain Imaging Research Study (San Diego, CA)

  Our research lab is currently conducting a study at the San Diego VA in La Jolla, to find out more about mood regulation using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) brain imaging techniques.  This is a non-treatment research study for veterans who have been combat deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan.  We are currently looking... Read moreChevron
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FDA seeking YET stricter regulations on opiod control

I'm sorry, but this article infuriated me. Are we moving backwards? I am in chronic pain, can't get a pain doctor to deal with it because guess what?? At least in Michigan (U of M especially), pain managment as a course in college is an ELECTIVE for "doctors to be" and not required. So as they graduate and get their little prescription pads they... Read moreChevron
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The Torment of Pain

  It hurts into my soul.Teeth-grinding, mind-numbing pain.There is no escape. Drugs only provide distance, not relief.No sleep again tonight and every night.Too tired to think or read. Or live.Unable to work. Or play. Or dream of the future. I can't even cry myself to sleep.Even if I hadn't shed all the tears I have,The meds dry me out so... Read moreChevron
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