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Ann Garvey's List: **9-6-13

    • I think she might.
       Who cares tho?

       Some of the greats have had mental disorders.
       A different state of mind can look outside of the ordinary.
    • I know people who have various mental problems and they're little hard to handle at times. 

       

       

       

      Britney is under a conservator-ship, so she has to have something or bunch of stuff. But its sealed court documents, so I don't think we will ever know. 

       

      Oh well, she seems to be ok now. 

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    • Although I am fond of saying that DSM-5 is still a “good enough guide for clinical work,” Essentials of Psychiatric Diagnosis is a sort of guide to that guide. Perhaps the book is in the same vein as the APA DSM-IV Guidebook—which Allen Frances co-authored in 1995 in his role as DSM-IV chairperson. This time, however, Dr Frances writes as a DSM-5 critic rather than an insider. This easy-to-read manual represents his concise views on how to achieve “more accurate” diagnoses with DSM-5, as well as when to avoid DSM-5 altogether.
    • Dr Frances also offers black box cautions for those diagnoses he believes represent the greatest risk for overdiagnosis. For example, he favors still using the bereavement exclusion for major depression that was removed from DSM-5 and warns against conflating normal childhood behavior with bipolar disorder and ADHD. Elsewhere, he recommends using ICD criteria for substance abuse and dependence rather than the unified definition of addiction in DSM-5, and advises abandoning the use of disorders that he believes should not have been included in DSM-5 at all (eg, mild neurocognitive disorder, dissociative identity disorder). These black box warnings represent areas of controversy that are clearly stated as Dr Frances’ personal recommendations; it will be up to clinicians to decide whether it is practical or useful to follow his advice in boycotting entire sections of DSM-5.

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    • fter years of allegedly living with Multiple Personality Disorder, Hannah Montana has died at the age of 20.

       
         

      Doctors say she perished after an overdose of twerking and bad fashion choices after last week’s MTV Video Music Awards.

    • Hannah Montana was a tween sensation from 2006 to 2011 with a successful TV show, an album, sold out concerts, a clothing line, and two movies under her belt before she was 18.

         

      Sadly, Montana had been lying low in recent years while the other side of her, Miley Cyrus, has been sucking away her innocence.

    • On Wednesday, during his party's Central Standing Committee meeting, Su said that the DPP cannot evade its responsibility to engage in a debate, and that the debate will help expose the pact as a backroom deal.

      Wait a minute. Why didn't the DPP realize what its responsibility was and what sort of opportunity the debate would present in the first place?

    • On the day that the DPP apparently made an about-face, Su said, “(My) only concern is that Ma is afraid (to engage in a debate).”

      Hold on. Wasn't it the Presidential Office that reacted positively to the proposition, whereas the opposition said that a debate was unnecessary in the first place?

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    • GRAY, Georgia — A middle Georgia woman who said her alternate personality killed a businessman has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.

       

      The Telegraph of Macon (http://bit.ly/17oA7vZ) reports a jury took about half an hour to return a guilty verdict against 55-year-old Pamela Moss Thursday.

    • A psychologist hired by Moss' attorney said she has dissociative identity disorder, and that he met on of her personalities named "Caroline."

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    • Herschel Walker, a 1982 Heisman Trophy recipient and mixed martial arts fighter, is undoubtedly a tough man.
      But the renowned football player also has been diagnosed with multiple personality disorder, and has written a book about it to tell his story to others.
      His message? It’s OK to ask for help when struggling with some of the risk factors that can lead to suicide.
    • Walker will be a guest speaker at Fort Leavenworth from 9-10 a.m. Sept. 24 at Eisenhower Auditorium at the Lewis and Clark Center in conjunction with the Army’s Suicide Prevention Month. September’s theme is “Shoulder to Shoulder Standing Ready and Resilient.” The event is free and open to the public.

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    • GRAY, Georgia (41NNC/WMGT) - Day three of the Pamela Moss murder trial was a battle of the mental health experts. A psychologist on the stand testified one of Moss' alter egos admitted Wednesday morning to killing Henry County businessman Douglas Coker.
    • After prosecutors rested their case, Hogue called his one and only witness, clinical psychologist Dr. Anthony Levitas, who diagnosed Moss with dissociative identity disorder (DID), also known as multiple personality disorder. He explained people who suffered from DID were usually abused as children, most likely sexual abuse, and are more likely to commit suicide. Moss told him her step-father sexually abused her as a child, Levitas testifed.

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    • In Jones County, the third day of the Pamela Moss murder trial shifted to testimony about her alleged multiple personalities.

       

      Moss is accused of killing Henry County businessman Doug Coker in March 2012. Prosecutors say he came to her home wanting repayment of $85,000.

    • The defense opened up today with testimony from a clinical psychologist, Anthony Levitas.

       

      He said other doctors have diagnosed Pamela Moss as having at least five personalities, all women, some young and some old.

       

      Levitas said the disorder causes gaps in memory and function.

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    • Waystack says Moss knew what she was doing the entire time because investigators found her attempts to clean up the murder.

       

      "The paint, the bleach, the lime, the cleaning supplies, the gloves, the lights, the matches," she says. "We know she knows right from wrong."

    • "The delusional compulsion she had which came down to the form of an alternate personality, which a doctor will call alter ego or for short just an alter. It's actually a person with a name, an identity, some of the features you would expect one person to who inhabits one body to have," he says.

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    • During the 2013 NHL season, the Washington Capitals' special teams seemed to be suffering from multiple personality disorder at times.

       

      The power play was dominant. The Caps had the best power play in the NHL with a 26.8 percent success rate. Not even the mighty Pittsburgh Penguins could match that as they were a full two percentage points behind the Caps at 24.7 percent.

       

      The penalty kill, however, was an exercise in futility more often than not. The Caps PK ranked 27th in the NHL with a penalty kill success rate of just 77.9 percent.

    • So what gives with the Caps' special teams? Is the power play really that good? Is the penalty kill really that bad, or was the performance in the playoffs indicative of an improving and underrated aspect of the team?
    • Debating against the existence of the controversial issue of multiple personalities in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychology, 1995, author Paul McHugh concludes that the DSM's (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) current diagnosis of Multiple Personality Disorders (now referred to as Disassociative Identity Disorder) should not, and he predicts will not, survive long enough to make it into future editions.
    • McHugh's major points of argument are that the DSM is flawed because Multiple Personality Disorder isn't a legitimate disorder; rather it's an "individually and socially created artifact". He isn't denying the existence of the patient's emotional troubles, but he believes that they have been misdiagnosed and led down the wrong therapeutic path. McHugh urges us to learn from a past analogous historical example-Hysteria, and even goes as far as to challenge the contenders of Multiple Personality Disorder to test the null hypothesis, as did Babinski in the referenced historical example.

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    • London, August 11 (ANI): A woman, who is suffering from Dissociative Identity Disorder, also known as  Multiple Personality Disorder, has not one, not two, but an incredible 22 personalities.
    • Taylor, who cannot recall what happens when another personality takes over, told the publication that she feels like she has spend half of her life drunk.
    • Each personality has its own voice, traits and mannerisms. They can come and go up to 10 times a day, changing without warning in a split second.

      They include brothel keeper Madam Taylor, five-year-old schoolgirl Daisy, PC World worker Mary, 60, and aggressive teenager Lashes.

      There are also a millionaire, Scottish sandwich shop owner, Cornish farm girl, German ­speaker and a gangsta rapper.

      It is Tiger-Lou, a woman about Dawn’s age, who greets us for our interview. But within 30 minutes Dawn is back.

    • “At the time I think I am in control. To me, I am just me, whether that’s Daisy, Mary or even Madam Taylor. But when I wake up and can’t remember a thing the terror sets in.”

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    • Detroit is a city with multiple personality disorder. Burned-out buildings are next door neighbours with trendy bars where there's a two-hour wait for a thyme and smoked bourbon cocktail that will be $12, please and thank you. Streets that have been mostly reclaimed by nature are just a few blocks away from streets that are so gridlocked on game night, you can't get your car out of the parking garage.
    • A lot of you already know this. For many Windsorites, the border is just a few minutes, a toll and some annoying questions away from all the perks of living next to a major American city - great concerts, great sports, some of the world's greatest art.

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    • Ruth Zandstra insists she is not lying. Nor is she crazy.

       

      The 62-year-old Highland woman has been insisting this for decades, even though at times it felt as if she was making up such unimaginable acts of abuse during her childhood. And similar acts of domestic and churchly terror against her sister, too.

    • Cruelty. Incest. Intimidation. Sexual abuse. Psychological torture. Animal sacrifice. Bloodletting. And allegations of satanic ritual abuse at the hands of her father and grandfather under the guise of strict Christian doctrine, a controversial claim she still stands behind to this day.

       

      “I know how all this sounds, but it’s true, sadly true,” she told me at the Portage Riverwalk, an oddly picturesque setting to discuss such ugly subject matter.

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