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- Cloudy 45°5 Day Forecast Wednesday, March 29, 2006 Home : News : Sports : Local SportsNewsAP NewsSportsLocal SportsNational SportsHS FootballRed BaronsPenguinsPioneersDonnie CollinsMarty MyersSports ColumnsOpinionBusiness & FinanceLifestylesPremiere BusinessesYellow PagesCommunityTravelFun and GamesAbout usCustomer ServiceAdvertise OnlineNEPA ResourcesRSS FeedsPhoto GalleriesVideo/Multi-Media Home : News : Sports : Local Sports Prep girl fighting to live on her terms By: Chad Jennings/Staff Writer 03/28/2006Email to a friendPrinter-friendly On this night, though, something in the words of Natasha Bedingfield shattered Mishko's willpower and left her lying in a heap of harsh reality.

Lupus had taken control of her legs.

It hurt to sit, it hurt to stand, and walking was nearly impossible, so she had taken to shuffling along like a penguin.

What little energy she could spare she had dedicated to the Scranton Prep swim team, but between the pain and the exhaustion she wasn't swimming as fast as a year ago.

Which was a problem, because this was her senior year, the district championships were barely a month away, and if she couldn't lead...

... Therapy program export treats borderline personality disorder Public release date: 29-Mar-2006 [ | E-mail Article ] Contact: Becky Soglin becky-soglin@uiowa.edu 319-335-6660 University of Iowa Therapy program export treats borderline personality disorder Trade between countries usually involves products.

However, one successful export from the United States to the Netherlands, Norway and several other countries is a cognitive therapy treatment program created by University of Iowa experts to help people with borderline personality disorder.

The treatment program, called Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem-Solving (STEPPS), augments standard treatment - medication and individualized psychotherapy - in order to give people with borderline personality disorder techniques to raise self-awareness and self-management.

People with the disorder struggle to manage intense emotions, experience frequent suicidal thoughts and can engage in self-damaging, impulsive behaviors.

Their relationships with others are often unstable because of inconsistent or intense moods.

Borderline personality disorder, characterized in the STEPPS program as emotional intensity disorder, is found all over the world at about the same prevalence rate, said Nancee Blum, social work specialist in psychiatry in the UI Roy J.

and Lucille A.

Carver College of Medicine.

Blum pioneered the treatment program along with colleagues Don St.

John, UI physician assistant in psychiatry; Norm Bartels...

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Instead, her symptoms were one of the early warning signs of ovarian cancer.

Here Caroline, now a 19-year-old English Language student from Chelmsford in Essex, tells FIONA DUFFY her remarkable story.

WHEN I was growing up, my twin brother Tim and older sister Sarah were always the ones to succumb to childhood illnesses such as chicken pox while I escaped Scot-free.

So it came as a real surprise when I reached the Sixth form and ...

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