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St. Catharines Standard

May 9, 2011

Driving into work one morning, the perfectness of her life ended.

Yet again.

What happened was bizarre. So extraordinary, so odd, that most people might devour it with a juicy sort of titillating gossip at her expense.

Yet, at 52, her passion for offering hope by telling her story, gives her as much strength as it gives others.

Toronto Star

Amy Dempsey and Nicole Baute

Does he or doesn’t he?

Charlie Sheen has boasted about having tiger blood and Adonis DNA, but the ousted star of Two and a Half Men star does not — he has insisted — have bipolar disorder.

His infamous self-diagnosis? “Bi-winning.”

But Sheen became the face of bipolar disorder as he marched through downtown streets Friday night, accompanied by at least a dozen police officers on bikes and a crowd of several hundred people, to raise awareness for the illness.

By
Consuelo Solar

Canadian Newcomer Magazine

March/April 2011

For five years Karen Liberman felt that she was losing a battle against madness without telling anyone, because she was ashamed. She considered herself to be worthless, was demoralized, and kept blaming herself for a condition she thought she should be able to control, failing to realize that she was the victim of a disease. “I was suffering and never told a soul, I just put on my makeup, went to work, and struggled through it, trying to figure out how to make it go away myself,” she admits.

Toronto Sun

What upsets Nora Carey the most is not when her beloved grandson screams at her or calls her a “bitch”.

It’s when he threatens to kill her — or himself — that she is reduced to tears.

Justin Bailey, 19, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in December.

In his case, it’s genetic — his mother was bipolar, as was his father. It’s why Justin went to live with Carey, 64, and her husband, Bryan, 63, in the basement of their Oshawa home 10 years ago.