Bipolar disorder

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With the exception of OBEcure, the other three companies in its portfolio are all companies that have been 'resurrected.' They were startups which closed, not because their technology wasn't promising, but because of management or strategy problems.

After examining them closely, the Biolight team determined that they had the potential to succeed if given a second chance.

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...ba href=/bipolar disorder/a/b last weekend when he fought with deputies and then died inside the Polk County Jail, his mother said.

And while deaths like the 21-year-old man's are not common inside Polk County's two jails, inmates such as Griffin who have mental illnesses are, Sheriff's Office officials say.

On average, almost 20 percent of the inmates jailed last year in Polk County were on some type of drug to treat mental disorders, said Sheriff Grady Judd.

It's an issue that concerns Judd, who said many of the inmates should be in mental-health facilities, not behind bars.

"I am very much committed to ensuring that the mentally ill receive the proper attention," he said.

Risdon Slate, chair of the criminology department at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, agrees that county jails too often receive inmates who need to be in a hospital.

"Unfortunately the criminal-justice system has become the dumping grounds for much of this," Slate said.

"I think the Polk County Sheriff's Office is doing what they can to try to grapple with the issues." Thirty-five employees out of 550 sworn Polk deputies have undergone crisis-intervention training to help understand and interact with people diagnosed with mental illnesses.

Griffin's mother said she thinks the Polk County Sheriff's Office didn't do enough to protect her son.

"They took it upon themselves to put him in the general population," said Gina Slone, Griffin's mother.

Deputies and a nurse knew Griffin was bipolar when he was booked early...

...ba href=/bipolar disorder/a/b - is neither freakish nor so unusual.

Look around your office and I will bet someone there has it - or another mental illness successfully being controlled by medication.

Thanks to technology such as PET scanning, never before have we known as much as we do about the workings of the human brain.

I would venture to say it's one of the greatest medical frontiers being explored today.

With the stigma of mental disease gradually being removed, more people will continue to seek help and come out of their closets of shame about familial problems that have plagued generations.

And as they do, they deserve the dignity due anyone with an illness.

I am no doctor or counselor, but I know enough to be of the mind that certain mental diseases should be considered life-threatening illnesses when not appropriately treated with either counseling or medication or both.

Untreated bipolar would be one of those.

There's a 40-hour class available to law enforcement that allows them to become certified in understanding how to deal with people who have mental-health issues.

A bipolar person in a manic episode, after all, could exhibit extreme rage, adrenaline surges and lack of concern for consequences.

An ignorant officer could mistake such behavior as belligerence and have a different reaction than he might if he understood it to be a serious sickness that's controllable with medication.

It's not a deputy's fault if he doesn't know it; it's his employers' job to give him proper...