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Showing posts with label Mental Illness. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Jesse Jackson, Jr. resigns from Congress Today...and More.

      Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. of Illinois resigned from the U.S. House of Representatives today. This decision was made after undergoing treatment for bipolar depression at the Mayo Clinic. The story being presented today by the media is simply about the man himself. I think there is a larger one here. A problem that is just as news worthy.
      A study of 11 nations on bipolar disorder in the March issue of "Archives of General Psychiatry" concluded that the United States has the highest lifetime