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...ba href=/bipolar disorder/a/b don’t present themselves all the time, Sammons said.

They can be dormant most of the time, he said.

“The fact that he does not have the symptoms when it’s convenient for the hospital to do a diagnosis does not mean he does not have ba href=/bipolar disorder/a/b,” Sammons testified.

A diagnosis of faking a mental illness must be made in the absence of a mental illness, Sammons said.

Sammons said Mondragon’s claims to have worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to communicate with aliens, to be using his watch to signal and receive signals from aliens, his talking to himself and other symptoms show he has a psychosis.

“Signaling aliens with his Indiglo watch ...

I’ll accept that as delusional,” Sammons testified.

Mondragon believed he was a “soldier for Jesus” and that the victim worshipped the devil, Sammons said.

“Troy Mondragon told me the chicken whackers killed a brother, chopped his head off and put the head on a stick, and they had talked to him,” Sammons testified.

Mondragon also showed a fear of “chicken whackers” and was sleep-deprived as a result of mourning the death of his friend and stayed up for four days before the crime.

Sleep-deprivation can cause psychosis, he said.

No one defined “chicken whackers” at the trial.

Those symptoms showed up in Mondragon’s life long before the March 23, 2003, crime, Sammons said.

On cross-examination, Assistant Dist...

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In the past five years, there has been a rapid increase in the patterns of alcohol and other drug use in South Africa - and significantly more young patients are being admitted to treatment centres for drug-related problems.

Statistics released by the Hospital Association of South Africa (Hasa) showed that there was a growing number of patients younger than 20 being admitted to treatment centres.

And, alarmingly, it was no longer unusual for children as young as 10 or 11 to be exper...

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- Jane Pauley's come a long way from telling the story.

These days, her own story is making news.It started with the treatment of a medical illness, hives.

That treatment, she said, triggered her bi-polar disorder."Unbeknownst to me or anybody else, I had a vulnerability to bipolar disease.

I didn't have bipolar.

I wasn't bipolar but somewhere in my genetic background was a predisposition," Pauley said.She would be depressed."After some months of a depression, not significant enough to keep me from working, I was still on "Dateline", but it had been kind of a tough slog for me for six, eight months," Pauley said.

"Suddenly...