Bipolar disorder

...ba href=/bipolar disorder/a/b, had been put in an isolation cell Saturday afternoon after threatening other inmates.

About 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, he kicked the cell's window until it shattered.He died after seven detention deputies wrestled him to the floor, shocked him, and handcuffed and shackled him.An autopsy was conducted Monday, but the cause of death is pending toxicology reports, which are expected by the end of next week, according to medical examiner Dr.

Stephen Nelson.Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said four separate investigations are being conducted into the death.

There is the medical examiner's investigation, an investigation being carried out by the State Attorney's Office, and administrative and criminal investigations by the Sheriff's Office."We're going to do what's right, and whatever it is, we'll say what it is.

Initially, things appear to be according to protocol," Judd said Monday.The shield, which emits an electric shock of about 40,000 volts, has been in use for at least 10 years at the jail and will remain in use, a sheriff's official said."There's no indication that there's a problem with the shield," Judd said.Griffin, of 401 Winston Ave., Lake Wales, was arrested by Lake Wales police early Saturday at an IHOP restaurant and charged with violating his probation.

He was required to observe a curfew from 10 p.m.

to 6 a.m.

while on probation for burglary, but he was at the restaurant and causing a disturbance at 3:47 a.m., sheriff's spokesman Scott Wilder said.Griffin ...

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Murrow says hers is mild: She tends to "get excited" but doesn't suffer the lows that often go along with the highs.

She continues to take medication for both illnesses, and she still has some symptoms: "To this day, if something isn't adjusted right, I'll go to adjust it," she says.

For several years, Murrow has led a support group for people with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

She says it gives them a safe place to talk about their disease.

The symptoms vary, she says.

For one woman, gardening is a reprieve from the disease.

Another confessed to having 600 pairs of shoes, not because she wanted them but because of a compulsion to buy them.

"It's so interesting and so strange what's behind closed doors," Murrow says.

"All these people are out there - people just don't know about us." She jokes that she has become the "poster child" for obsessive-compulsive disorder by being able to talk about it.

"If I didn't fight really, really hard, I'd never be where I am," she says.

"I want to keep moving up, not just standing still." People ask her whether she worries about the long-term effects of medication.

No, she tells them: Would someone with diabetes worry about the long-term effects of insulin?

For more information The support group for people with obsessive-compulsive disorder meets the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month at Westlink Christian Church, 21st and Maize Road.

A light supper is available at 6 p.m.; small group discussions usually begi...

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Unable to cope with him, his mother called DYFS two years ago.

A case was opened, she said.

When he was 17, O'Neill beat up his brother, prompting his mother to file assault charges.

He was later placed on one year of probation, which he is still serving.

O'Neill said Triolo was assigned his case in February 2005.

The two became close, he said, after he left a therapy program and went back home to live with his mother.

He said she took him out to lunch in September at a River Edge diner and began fondling him there.

"After that there was a lot of hugging and kissing," O'Neill said.

Because she'd bought him clothing and took him to a concert of his favorite band, he said, "I didn't want to tell anybody about our relationship." On the eve of his graduation from an alcohol-recovery program, O'Neill relapsed and told his parents that a caseworker with a local youth agency bought him the liquor.

Arnold said the local caseworker then told investigators that O'Neill told her he had an affair with Triolo.

His mother, Maria Stoker, then called DYFS.

O'Neill has since been questioned twice by the prosecutor's investigators, Arnold said.

Molinelli said his office has "conducted some interviews," but he declined to elaborate.

Explaining why she filed a notice of claim when no criminal charges had been brought, Arnold said: "They [DYFS and Triolo] had a civil responsibility to my clients, whether or not criminal charges are filed." Under state law, plaintiffs mu...