There is a difference between a patient refusing a treatment and a patient requesting to be killed (www.euthanasia.com). ... Jack Kevorkian is responsible for bringing Euthanasia public and more sought after, and Euthanasia should be stopped because suicidal intent will usually pass with time, terminally ill patients who desire death are depressed, and the pain they are experiencing is controllable. ... Terminally Ill patients who desire death are depressed and depression is treatable in those with terminal illness. In one study, of the 24 percent of terminally ill patients who desired deat...

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Society tried to ignore and forget about the mentally ill. Very few dr. would even attempt to treat the mentally ill due to a fear of social outcasts. ... He brought an even higher quality care to the mentally ill. ... /o were created to help patients with the symptoms of the illnesses'. ... By doing this the patient can stay in close contact with a professional if and when their moods shift and change. ...

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It is as if, when becoming mentally ill, they can no longer function to the highest degree as they did before. ... Jamison writes, "Patients who do well socially and academically when young and who then are hit by devastating illnesses such as schizophrenia and manic depression seem particularly vulnerable to the scale of their own mental disintegration and the terror of becoming a chronic patient." ... As written in Jamison's book, when it kills the young, it is beyond our understanding, in the sick or ill fated too understandable or explainable, terrible in the old, unexplainable in ...

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Unfortunately, about 10-20% of individuals with BD take their own life and nearly one third of patients admit to at least one suicide attempt (Martin, 1981). ... In other words, if the patient responds unequivocally to these medications, this is usually a clear indication of some form of bipolar illness (Hopkins & Gelenberg, 1994; Goodwin & Guze, 1989). However, the problem with the diagnosis of BD is that many individuals will present with depressive symptoms but initially make no reference to hypomanic symptoms unless the practitioner actively questions the patients about these. ... Nath...

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This continued until I became ill with what I believe was a very bad case of the flu. ... I was ill for over a week. ... Typically, when a bipolar patient stops taking their medications they slip into a very deep depressive state. ...

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Depressed patients must learn to understand how their illness affects other people, and expect that their relationships will not be what they were. ... The best way for them to be relieved of the stress is to help the patient toward recovery. ... Thus, to attempt to treat all persons suffering depression with the same medication would be ill advised" ("Depression" 520). ...

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Therefore, diagnosis should not lie only in the physician's hands but be associated with parents, teachers and anyone who interacts with the patient on a daily basis. ... When parents are struggling over marital or career problems, or are ill themselves, teens may feel the tension and try to distract their parents. ... So how can the physician determine when a patient should be diagnosed as depressed or suicidal? ... An average of 20-30% of adult bipolar patients report having their first episode before the age of 20. ...

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