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• China couldnt care less about Akmal Skaikhs bipolar disorder. Its not keen on the mentally ill

  
  News World — Authority: 138
  So poor old Akmal Shaikh has been executed after all. One jab of a syringe, job done, that’ll be five yuan for the chemicals, please. None of this twenty-years-on-death-row stuff for the Chinese. But, beyond the obvious horrors of the modern death penalty, what does this sad story tell us?Firstly, the death penalty ...
  9 hours ago

• China Executed British National for Drug Trafficking

  
  Daily Contributor — Authority: 571
  A British immigrant, reportedly mentally unstable, was executed Tuesday, December 29, after being convicted for drug smuggling, BBC reported . Akmal Shaikh , 53, was said to be suffering from the mental problem of bipolar disorder. This prompted clemency support from various organizations like the United ...
  17 hours ago

• Briton convicted of drug smuggling executed in China (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Beijing, Dec 29 (IANS) A British national convicted of drug smuggling was executed Tuesday in China, despite international pleas for clemency.Akmal Shaikh, 53, was executed at 10.30 a.m. in Urumqi, in China’s western region of Xinjiang, the British embassy in Beijing confirmed, reports DPA.Shaikh’s family had made ...
  19 hours ago

• Fury as China executes drug smuggler

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Fierce condemnation as last-ditch attempt to prevent death of Akmal Shaikh, 53, fails China was this morning condemned for its human rights record after a British man who, his supporters say, had mental health problems, was executed for smuggling drugs. Akmal Shaikh, 53, was shot dead by a firing squad at 10.30am ...
  20 hours ago

• Supporters Hold London Vigil for British Death Row Inmate in China

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 741
  With less than a day to go before his scheduled execution in China, British supporters of Londoner Akmal Shaikh held an eleventh-hour vigil in London on Monday in an attempt to persuade the Chinese government to spare his life, arguing that Shaikh, 53, suffers from mental illness.  —KA The Independent: A ...
  1 day ago

• A need for moral insight.

  
  The boy who knew too much: a child prodigy — Authority: 122
  Does the Republic of China have moral insight, at a State level? I ask this because recent events suggest otherwise. I shall explain.A British man, Akmal Shaikh, 53, is under penalty of death and due to be executed tomorrow morning for carrying 4 kg of heroin into the country. Now, that might seem like a simple matter ...
  1 day ago

• Why The Pressure To Be in a Relationship?

  
  Ask the Therapist — Authority: 132
  I am someone people would consider anti-social and I agree. I find it very difficult to speak to people, I have my entire life, and even my mother describes me as a quiet child. My personal life consists of the same routine. After work, I run between two and three miles Monday thru Thursday then I watch T.V. and fall ...
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• Family visit death row Briton in China

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Daughter of Akmal Shaikh, who is due to be executed tomorrow in north-west China, says time is running out for her father The family of a British man condemned to die in China tomorrow morning have visited him and made a last-minute appeal for mercy. Two cousins of Akmal Shaikh, 53, from Kentish Town in north ...
  1 day ago

• An Unquiet Mind: Trailer Sponsor: http://www.luktagott.nu

  
  Tvbot.se — Authority: 469
  Trailer for the short An Unquiet Mind . Shuei, a man in a manic (or depressed?) state, witnesses his body in a coffin. His mercurial journey of mood swings and deep restlessness is inspired by his struggle with Bipolar Disorder and Kay Redfield Jamison’s book, An Unquiet Mind . View original here: An Unquiet Mind: ...
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• Undone: Trailer Sponsor: http://www.luktagott.nu

  
  Tvbot.se — Authority: 469
  Trailer for Undone . Undone is a six minute stop-motion short revolving around an old man who fishes in the tempestuous sea beneath him, and struggles to keep the objects he recovers from slipping through his hands. I created the short as a visual metaphor for the progression of Alzheimer’s. Read more here:  ...
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• Suzanne Horne, Bipolar Artist, Killed Herself Last Christmas Eve, 12/24/08

  
  Utah Savage — Authority: 422
  This is Suzanne Horne I did not know Suzanne, but she gave me two awards. I didnt deserve them. She was so beautiful. Her site, Liquid Illusion, was stunningly gorgeous. It was sumptuous. Languid. Lovely. I could have been kinder, more generous, encouraging, but I did not know... And I think I should have. I ...
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• In Memory of Suzanne Horn, Liquid Illusion

  
  Utah Savage — Authority: 422
  Suzanne was a blogger who wrote lovely poetry and was a photographer with an incredible eye.  She was beautiful.  She had children.  She was bipolar, and like so many of us, had a hard time dealing with Christmas.  She killed herself Christmas Eve last year.  It was about this time last year I found out about ...
  2 days ago

• What Were Like in 2010

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Americans in 2010: Belief in psychiatric illness and diagnosis is a pervasive fact of life. We think nothing of hearing people announce they are bipolar to explain why their lives are off track and why they are unhappy. This, after years of watching televised ads about depression - could that be you and I? Its ...
  2 days ago

• Combined Lithium Plus Valproate Or Lithium Monotherapy Better At Preventing Relapse In Bipolar Patients Than Valproate Monotherapy (Balance Study)

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 713
  For people with bipolar I disorder*, for whom long-term therapy is clinically indicated, both combination therapy with lithium plus valproate and lithium monotherapy are more likely to prevent relapse than is valproate monotherapy. This benefit seems to be irrespective of baseline severity of illness and is maintained ...
  3 days ago

• Accidental Masochism?

  
  Patient Anonymous: Just Another Head Case — Authority: 124
  I’m still trying to organize the family X-mASS jazz.  Mental Mommy called last night, after I had left her a message the day before.  I said I was ready after finally getting all the gifts sorted for the visit to my Great Aunt and Uncles’ place.  The primary reason is not to torture myself via PTSD and family ...
  4 days ago

• Video: The 12 (Bipolar) Days of Christmas

  
  World of Psychology — Authority: 559
  DISCLAIMER: I am no Barbara Streisand. I’ve never taken a singing lesson in my life. Not one. (Ed. - Really??) The inspiration for this song came two weeks before Thanksgiving when I received a call from my doctor: we had better get together a plan for lowering my cholesterol. Yeah. Sure. Getting to it… right ...
  4 days ago

• How To Recognize The Signs Of Bipolar Depression

  
  I wanted Info — Authority: 144
  Many times we experience days when we feel on top of the world and other times when nothing seems right. However, for a person with bipolar depression these high and low points are far more extreme. It is estimated that three percent of adults in the United States are suffering from bipolar depression and many of ...
  5 days ago

• Combo Tops Valproate Alone In Bipolar Relapse (CME/CE)

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 161
  Combination therapy with lithium and valproate is more likely to prevent relapse in patients with bipolar disorder than valproate monotherapy, researchers say. However, there appeared to be no advantage for combination [...]
  6 days ago

• Bipolar specialist in the LA area

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 636
  (Asking for a friend) Any pointers to a good psychiatrist for bipolar disorder in the LA area? My friend was diagnosed with bipolar II a bit less than a year ago. She tried a couple of drugs for it, but they had too-severe side effects and she stopped after a couple of weeks. Since then shes been managing pretty ...
  6 days ago

• Will it ever end?

  
  BPD in OKC — Authority: 132
  I cant stop obsessing over how annoying this cycle of depression is. Thats probably making everything even worse, but I cant help it.Some days I even pray to God to allow me to have even just one day of mania. That seems like such a stupid thing to pray for, but I do it. I hate being depressed. I want to be manic at ...
  6 days ago

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