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She says "mental illness had a lot to do with" her actions.

Lafave already faces three years of house arrest and seven years probation in another county, where she pleaded guilty to two counts of lewd and lascivious battery under a plea deal for having sex with the same boy.

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2006 6:59AM Bipolar author describes 'revved up' life Manic phase propels creativity and violence OUR HEALTH DESONTA HOLDERKnight Ridder Newspapers Tom Wootton was hired to run a U-Haul center, and "within two months, I was vice president of the company," he says.

He also ran health clubs, worked as a stripper, started a dot-com company and became a dot-com millionaire.

He wrote a book about himself in six days.But Wootton, 49, didn't understand why his life seemed so revved up, seemed to zoom by in a blur until 2002, when he was diagnosed as Bipolar 1 with psychotic features, a condition with intense mania and depression "and you're hallucinating, hearing things," Wootton says.Wootton and his wife of 15 years, Ellen Nadeau, 50, of Escondido, Calif., had suspected he had a bad thyroid.

Doctors thought he was just depressed, but his body's reaction to the drug Effexor, which can aggravate mania, led to the diagnosis that would explain Wootton's need for very little sleep, his ability to outwork just about anyone and his paranoia.

"It'd be nice if you could say, 'Isn't this wonderful.

I can work for nine months, and I don't need any sleep, and I can outwork 10 people, and I can produce all this stuff,' " Wootton said during a recent trip to South Florida.

"But the side effects...