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Friday, June 6th, 2008
By Steven Godlewski
The signs of skin cancer include family history of skin cancer, multiple moles, a fair complexion, exposure to coal tar, pitch, creosote, arsenic compounds, and radium, and severe sunburn as a child.
The most common form of cancer to strike people than any other form is skin cancer. All ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Pork belly prices are under pressure as interest in the BLT, the popular summer bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich, could dip after an outbreak of salmonella poisoning in nine U.S. states, with illnesses in two of them blamed on eating raw tomatoes
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
I must say, I am tremendously thrilled with my new pdoc, Dr. B. Any doctor who would willingly give you an hour's worth of his time (and who is a wonderful listener) is a gem.And he made a few things about bipolar disorder completely clear, stuff that had me a ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Christmas can be an awfully lousy time for those of us with mood swings, particularly if we're alone, have had a bad year, lost someone close to us, or we're just plain not controlled on meds.I had a horrible Christmas last year. Alone on Christmas and New Year's Eves. Continuously ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Well, after a fashion. Slowly but surely, I'm coming out of my last, awful bout of dysphoria. I'm hooked up with more Seroquel and a new therapist who is absolutely fantastic. It may seem as if I've been doing the right thing in my pursuit to manage my disorder ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Thanks to Sue from Kannsass for this topic. What can you do for friends who are clearly suffering from depression, mania, or whatever mental illness manifestation?You want to help but how? Your friend has withdrawn to the point that it's interfering with their life or is so out of control ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
I was gobsmacked at the response to the Blog Resurrection. Here I'm thinking that I'm being rather self-indulgent and possibly borderline whiney about doing Swing Time again.Maybe not. Right now, I'm not the best judge of whether I'm "normal" (or Abby Normal, as we say in my family, with credit ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
I stopped writing this blog because I felt that perhaps writing about one's illness might be counterproductive and overly self-involved.But I was wrong. It is, in fact, productive, and while somewhat self-involved, can put out into the light something that can help other people who suffer from bipolar disorder.So here ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Lately, it's been creeping up on me. That something's-not-right feeling. And then it starts. The anxiety attacks, the sleep difficulties, the sadness, the mild grandiosity, the up and down and up and down of a mixed state and rapid cycling.Time for a med re-evaluation. I have a feeling that perhaps ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
So, who do you tell about your disorder? And when?I don't have a good answer for that because even though I tend to be quite up front about it, there are times when less is more and I don't disclose.At least, not right away. And perhaps in dribs and drabs. ...
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