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		<title>Glenn Close, family confront stigma of mental illness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From ABC News (with video): Actress Glenn Close and her sister, Jessie Close, are appearing in a national ad campaign aimed at countering stima and providing support to people with mental illness. Jessie Close has bipolar disorder. In the ad for the nonprofit BringChange2Mind, Jessie Close wears a t-shirt that says &#8220;bipolar;&#8221; Glenn Close&#8217;s shirt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feds launch civil rights probe of KY Medicaid program</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lexington [KY] Herald-Leader reports that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has launched a civil rights investigation into Kentucky&#8217;s Medicaid program after a family complained about a reduction in home care services for a man with multiple disabilities. Creasa Reed, who is herself disabled, filed the complaint after Medicaid cut her son&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video shows Dallas bus driver choking student</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Shelly Slater on WFAA-TV Dallas/Fort Worth: In an incident that went unreported for months, a Dallas school district camera captured on videotape footage of an enraged bus driver choking a student who had been misbehaving. Correspondent Shelly Slater said the child&#8217;s family did not learn of the incident until the station obtained the videotape [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK celebrity calls for mental health pride</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/08/05/mental-health-pride-2890/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Disability Now: Stephen Fry, a prominent UK writer, actor and television personality, says people with mental health problems should develop a sense of pride to help banish public stigma. Fry, who has bipolar disorder, draws parallels to the civil rights and gay rights movements. &#8220;Once that pride is there, once we all stand up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;General Hospital&#8217; star embraces bipolar condition</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/07/18/general-hospital-2720/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From CBS News: Emmy-winning actor and ABC &#8220;General Hospital&#8221; soap star Maurice Benard uses his bipolar condition to add depth to his character on-screen and to promote mental health advocacy. The producers embraced his condition when he told them and incorporated it into the script with his permission. Benard is also a spokesperson for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HBO developing &#8216;Manic&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/07/01/manic-2548/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Variety: HBO has announced that is developing a one-hour drama based on the bestselling Terri Cheney book &#8220;Manic, A Memoir,&#8221; about a successful female attorney with bipolar disorder. In the running for the week&#8217;s least-PC wording are Variety&#8217;s headline and lead sentence: HBO crazy about &#8216;Manic&#8217; HBO is hyper for &#8216;Manic&#8217;&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Children with mental illness endure long hospital waits</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/06/15/children-with-mental-illness-endure-long-hospital-waits-2331/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Boston Globe: In the past few weeks, parents and advocates in Massachusetts report that at least a dozen children and teens with mental illness &#8211; threatening violence to themselves or others &#8211; have waited up to a week in hospital emergency rooms or medical wards waiting for psychiatric beds. Other children have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growing up bipolar</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/05/25/growing-up-bipolar-2179/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 17:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Max&#8217;s world, Bipolar disorder is a mystery and a subject of medical debate. But for the Blakes, it&#8217;s just reality. In a Newsweek cover story, Mary Carmichael tells the story of the estimated 800,000 American children with bipolar disorder through the eyes of 10-year-old Max Blake and his family. Max was diagnosed at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Mad pride&#8217; activists fight stigma of mental illness</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/05/12/mad-pride-activists-fight-stigma-of-mental-illness-2113/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 16:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the New York Times: Activists like writer/blogger Liz Spikol (left) and USC law professor Elyn Saks are speaking candidly and publicly about living lives with mental illness, promoting awareness and acceptance of people with such diagnoses as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. &#8220;Until now, the acceptance of mental illness has pretty much stopped at depression,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texas survey: Youths in custody have mental health problems</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/05/09/texas-survey-youths-in-custody-have-mental-health-problems-2092/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 16:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Houston Chronicle: Nearly half of the youths locked up in the Harris County Juvenile Detention Center [have] mental health problems &#8211; far more than the estimated 20 percent with mental disorders in the general youth population &#8211; figures released Thursday show. [Harris County includes Houston.] These youngsters, mostly teenagers, have been diagnosed with [...]]]></description>
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