Grief and Broken Hearts-Even in Hollywood! Relationship expert Dr. Molly Barrow

When a mis-Matched spouse decides to leave the marriage, their decision is often a calculated and well thought out plan, rather than a sudden impulse resulting from one event. The spouse who remains in love is rendered powerless by their own dependence and may become desperate to save the marriage at any cost. Thwarted desperation may turn to rage. As the marriage begins to fall apart, sometimes the one that is still in love also begins to fall apart. Heartsick and angry that they have been abandoned, the pain that engulfs them can be overwhelming. Often these individuals turn to medications, alcohol or illegal drugs to help dull the ache for their departing loved one. If this person is a parent, as in the case of a young Hollywood starlet, to add injury to their heartbreak, their behavior looks unacceptable in the eyes of the court and to all other good parents. Meanwhile, the one, who was partying prior to the separation and eventually escaped, begins to look devoted in comparison to their abandoned spouse.
Anyone making an evaluation must rewind to the parenting before the heartbreak. Who did the parenting before the marriage became intolerable? Was this starlet a good mother before her heart was broken and before she was humiliated in front of the world? Although she is often told to seek treatment for alcohol and substance abuse, what she may need is treatment for her broken heart. The stakes are high because now she risks losing her children to him as well. Alcohol and substances are ugly monsters on anyone but especially a very young mother crying out for help, even though she is alienating fans, family and friends in a downward spiral.

Time will mend her broken heart and she just may look back on these days and wonder what she ever saw in him. Usually after a divorce, grief lasts a year or two. Once a person recovers from an extreme heartbreak, they rarely ever go to that place again.

The Match Lines Relationship Compatibility Test will soon be available for everyone to take. I know that it will help struggling couples mend their relationships. Singles will learn to look for qualities in a spouse that will help make their relationships more successful. To save anyone from the heartbreak of divorce will be a tremendous blessing.

Dating and Marriage Help Relationship Expert Dr. Molly Barrow

Revealed through the power of Google Analytics, it appears that the new web site drmollybarrow.com is visited by people from all over the world. New visitors from South America, India, Finland, South Africa and Australia are coming to the site seeking answers to their relationships, dating, marriage or divorce problems. With tests, articles and teleseminars, Dr. Barrow offers her experience of thirty years of counseling and psychology. Different faces, different places but all are welcome by Dr. Molly to discover how to be happy in love.


Dr. Molly Barrow holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and is the author of the new book, “Matchlines: A Revolutionary New Way of Looking at Relationships and Making the Right Choices in Love,” ISBN 159507158X. Introducing the new relationship compatibility test Match Lines Systems for Successful Relationships by psychology expert Dr. Molly Barrow on her official website: http://www.DrMollyBarrow.com. Love and healthy relationship advice for pre-marital, marriage, dating and business relationships. She is an authority on relationship and psychological topics; a member of the American Psychological Association, Screen Actors Guild, and Author’s Guild and is a licensed mental health counselor. Dr. Molly has appeared as an expert in the film, My Suicide, documentaries Ready to Explode and KTLA Impact, NBC news, PBS In Focus, WBZT talk radio and in O Magazine, Psychology Today, Newsday, The Nest, MSN.com, Yahoo, Match.com, N Magazine, Women’s Health, Harvard Business School, Women’s World and Shrink About This columnist for Scripps newspapers, Hitched Magazine and Menstuff. Dr. Molly Barrow Radio: http://www.blogtalkradio.com

Dr. Molly Barrow to serve on University Psychology Board

Dr. Elsa Rogers, Liberal Arts/IDS Program Chair of Hodges University, has invited Dr. Molly Barrow to serve on the Advisory Board of the Applied Psychology, Liberal Arts, and Master of Professional Studies programs at Hodges University.
Dr. Rogers stated that Hodges University would benefit from Dr. Barrow's "wealth of information and enthusiasm." The Board meets on the Fort Myers campus to discuss the progress of the University programs, plans that are underway, and ways in which the programs could be improved.

Dr. Molly Barrow is the creator of the online "Match Lines Compatibility Test for Successful Relationships" for singles, couples and business and the author of the new book "Matchlines: the Revolutionary New Way of Looking at Relationships and Making the Right Choices in Love" available at Naples Borders, Barnes and Noble and Amazon.com. To take Dr. Barrow's compatibility test go to www.drmollybarrow.com

Weight Lifting or Cardio with Shawn Phillips Dr. Molly Barrow Relationship expert

Listen to why lifting weights is so important when trying to get lean.
Shawn Phillips is a body builder extraordinaire and makes my daily breakfast protein drink.

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Match Lines Compatibility Test for Successful Relationships Dr. Molly Barrow

 

The official Match Lines Compatibility Test http://www.drmollybarrow.com is almost ready. The test is operational and Pay Pal is in place. The excitement grows!!!
Taking a moment to reflect on the journey it has been. I so want to help people have better relationships, avoid heartbreak and change their status from singles to couples.




Dr. Molly Barrow holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and is the author of the new book, “Matchlines: A Revolutionary New Way of Looking at Relationships and Making the Right Choices in Love,” ISBN 159507158X. Introducing the new relationship compatibility test Match Lines Systems for Successful Relationships by psychology expert Dr. Molly Barrow on her official website: http://www.DrMollyBarrow.com. Love and healthy relationship advice for pre-marital, marriage, dating and business relationships. She is an authority on relationship and psychological topics; a member of the American Psychological Association, Screen Actors Guild, and Author’s Guild and is a licensed mental health counselor. Dr. Molly has appeared as an expert in the film, My Suicide, documentaries Ready to Explode and KTLA Impact, NBC news, PBS In Focus, WBZT talk radio and in O Magazine, Psychology Today, Newsday, The Nest, MSN.com, Yahoo, Match.com, N Magazine, Women’s Health, Harvard Business School, Women’s World and Shrink About This columnist for Scripps newspapers, Hitched Magazine and Menstuff. Dr. Molly Barrow Radio: http://www.blogtalkradio.com

Match Lines - Army of Sales People! Relationship expert help Dr. Molly Barrow

Are you looking for a way to help people and earn extra cash? For a limited number of salespeople, Match Lines Compatibility System for Successful Relationships will reward independent distributors who refer new clients that take the test and join the membership of Match Lines. For more information check the distributor page coming soon to the new web site for relationships www.drmollybarrow.com

Dr. Molly Barrow holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and is the author of the new book, “Matchlines: A Revolutionary New Way of Looking at Relationships and Making the Right Choices in Love,” ISBN 159507158X. Introducing the new relationship compatibility test Match Lines Systems for Successful Relationships by psychology expert Dr. Molly Barrow on her official website: http://www.DrMollyBarrow.com. Love and healthy relationship advice for pre-marital, marriage, dating and business relationships. She is an authority on relationship and psychological topics; a member of the American Psychological Association, Screen Actors Guild, and Author’s Guild and is a licensed mental health counselor. Dr. Molly has appeared as an expert in the film, My Suicide, documentaries Ready to Explode and KTLA Impact, NBC news, PBS In Focus, WBZT talk radio and in O Magazine, Psychology Today, Newsday, The Nest, MSN.com, Yahoo, Match.com, N Magazine, Women’s Health, Harvard Business School, Women’s World and Shrink About This columnist for Scripps newspapers, Hitched Magazine and Menstuff. Dr. Molly Barrow Radio: http://www.blogtalkradio.com

Relationship Compatibility Expert Dr. Molly Barrow speaker for Rotary

Dr. Molly Barrow was the guest speaker for the Sunset Rotary Club event at the Collier Atheletic Club, Thursday evening Sept 20, 2007. Dr. Barrow was invited to speak and introduced by Marcus Zillman, Internet expert. (Business people, judges, attorneys and doctors held a lively discussion about Barrow's book Matchlines: A Revolutionary New Way of Looking at Relationships and Making the Right Choices in Love and her new web site www.drmollybarrow.com that will launch her new singles compatibility test next week. The couples compatibility test and business compatibility test will be available in October.




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Rotary's best-known motto is "Service above Self", and its secondary motto is "They profit most who serve best." From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

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Dr. Molly Barrow holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and is the author of the new book, “Matchlines: A Revolutionary New Way of Looking at Relationships and Making the Right Choices in Love,” ISBN 159507158X. Introducing the new relationship compatibility test Match Lines Systems for Successful Relationships by psychology expert Dr. Molly Barrow on her official website: http://www.DrMollyBarrow.com. Love and healthy relationship advice for pre-marital, marriage, dating and business relationships. She is an authority on relationship and psychological topics; a member of the American Psychological Association, Screen Actors Guild, and Author’s Guild and is a licensed mental health counselor. Dr. Molly has appeared as an expert in the film, My Suicide, documentaries Ready to Explode and KTLA Impact, NBC news, PBS In Focus, WBZT talk radio and in O Magazine, Psychology Today, Newsday, The Nest, MSN.com, Yahoo, Match.com, N Magazine, Women’s Health, Harvard Business School, Women’s World and Shrink About This columnist for Scripps newspapers and Menstuff.

Freedom of Speech-Not for Andrew Meyer! Relationship expert Dr. Molly Barrow

- A University of Florida student was Tasered and arrested in Gainsville, FL on Sept. 18 after trying to ask U.S. Senator John Kerry about the 2004 election and other subjects during a campus forum. The 21 year old student is held in an
Alachua County jail for asking a question in a forum, and then resisting being arrested for doing so.
I find the treatment of this student outrageous. It appeared that John Kerry stood silently by as did school administrators, and a room full of students, while police abused a student for talking. Police more than overreacted and all should be fired. Wouldn't your child, if suddenly surrounded by police, and after asking, "What did I do? " panic when forced up the isle in front of everyone just for asking a legitimate question to Skull and Bones member John Kerry. Shame on all of you, not on Andrew Meyer. Are you all Skull and Bones members or just weak and intimidated???? Students should have walked out and left Kerry and UF with an empty room. Administrators should never let this happen on their campus. They created the problem by censoring him and surrounding him, and denying him his rights. Like Fox News turning off the mike on Emmy award winner Sally Fields as she talked about mothers' feelings for their children in Iraq, America is losing her freedom of speech shockingly, quickly and regrettably.

Recycle, Communicate, Listen and Conserve!! Relationship expert Dr. Molly Barrow

I just received this email from laurie@stopglobalwarming.org.
I feel so frustrated that the beautiful earth as we have known it is slipping like sand through our fingers. The Live Earth concert kicked me in gear and I am recycling and much more aware. If you have not become part of the solution yet, then today is a good day to begin. Put down political or religious differences and let's clean up the earth.


LOSS OF POLAR BEARS BY 2050
The U.S. Geological Survey reported last week that two-thirds of the world's polar bears could vanish by 2050 if melting sea ice predictions prove accurate. Worse, sea ice in the Arctic might be disappearing faster than the computer models predict due to global warming, making the polar bear more imperiled.

It is clear global warming threatens polar bears with extinction and they need to be protected under the Endangered Species Act. Click here to add your voice in support of protecting polar bears and their critical habitat.

Click Here for the NY Times story on the report.


ICE-FREE ARCTIC ON THE HORIZON?
According to a recent Guardian story, the Arctic ice cap has collapsed at an unprecedented rate this summer and sea ice levels are now at record lows.

As the article explains, "Experts said they were "stunned" by the loss of ice, with an area almost twice as big as Britain disappearing in the last week alone. So much ice has melted this summer that the north-west passage across the top of Canada is fully navigable, and observers say the north-east passage along Russia's Arctic coast could open later this month. If the increased rate of melting continues, the summertime Arctic could be totally free of ice by 2030."

The loss of sea ice will not only threaten polar bears, other mammals and sea life, but could also accelerate global warming, since white ice deflects heat, and darker-colored waters absorb more heat.

Dr. Molly Barrow presenter for Walden University

Dr. Molly Barrow Walden University alumni


Shannon Mouton, alumni relations manager of Walden University introduced Dr. Molly Barrow as an esteemed alumni of Walden University prior to Dr. Barrow making an hour long power point presentation teleconference entitled "From School Work to Social Change: The Business." After the presentation, Dr. Barrow answered questions from the audience and introduced her new Match Lines Relationship Compatibility test at www.drmollybarrow.com. A download of the presentation is available at www.Waldenu@edu.

The Alumni Lecture Series is a new program from the Office of Alumni Relations; alumni are asked to give a 45-50 minute presentation on a topic in which they have demonstrated a level of expertise. The monthly program affords alumni an opportunity to give back to their alma mater and share practical advice with their fellow graduates, current students and prospects.

Dr. Molly Barrow Relationship Expert Now on Facebook, YouTube

YouTube is watched by millions and now has Dr. Molly Barrow. Barrow's new presence on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and MySpace was created by web designer, film maker and editor Atom McCree from www.victoryinnovations.com. The new video by Atom McCree of Dr. Molly Barrow's new Matchlines Systems for Successful Relationships and her new compatibility test can be seen at http://youtube.com/user/MatchlinesbyDrMolly

Organic Food is My Choice! Dr. Molly Barrow Relationship Expert

I eat at Frank's FOOD AND THOUGHT 100% ORGANIC restaurant nearly everyday. He is one of the most knowledgeable people about food and health I have ever met.
Read his Commentary from the Naples Daily News. I am against pesticide farming and for clean farming like my grandfather's massive garden in Cuba Illinois.
Read what Frank has to say...



http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2007/sep/08/guest_commentary_organic_farming_naturally_best/
Guest commentary: ‘Organic’ farming is naturally the best
By FRANK OAKES, Special to the Daily News

Saturday, September 8, 2007

I feel compelled to offer an opposing commentary to that of columnist Betsy Hart (“Deflating the organic myth”).

Her uninformed and naive opinion by itself may not have motivated me to write this, were it not for such totally uncalled for snide remarks.

I have grown and marketed food my entire life, as my parents and grandparents did before me.

I transitioned some of my farm to organics in 1989, and from 1991 to the present I have farmed entirely organic produce.

I am past president of Florida Organic Growers and humbly submit that no one in Southwest Florida understands more clearly the difference between what is called conventionally grown and organically grown food.

I must say I have always hated the word “organic.” Even more, I hate how preposterous it is that we have to name our practices anything other than farming.

For 15,000 years, humans have practiced organized agriculture the way nature commanded, all the way up until World War II. After that, chemicals were introduced — and so began the “get big or get out’’ agribusiness we are burdened with today.

Unbelievably, with help from the spin doctors, by the early 1960s chemical farming had become known as conventional, and anyone who farmed the way we did the first 15,000 years were weirdos who had to come up with a new name.

Talk about mythology!

Hart often refers to Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s article in Time magazine for support. I read that article, and in its totality it was very ambivalent about the impact of organic food.

Relying on Dr. Gupta as an authority in itself is very questionable. I clearly understand his magnetic TV persona, but I felt that his Time article should have begun with: “I’m not an organic farmer but I play one on TV.”

The good doctor, like most of his peers, can deftly administer a dose of chemotherapy, but has been taught very little about the connection between good food and health.

Hart’s observation that “life expectancy is up by decades” is badly misleading. Infant mortality has had more to do with that statistic than anything else, and the “official” projections for future longevity are simply based on extrapolations of present life spans.

Well, let me tell you that all the folks who are bringing up that average by living to 90 or 100 were born in 1907 to 1917. They were 50 years old before they ever tasted a piece of chemically grown food.

Her next statistic on reduced cancer rates is laughable. (Disraeli: “Three kinds of lies — lies, damned lies and statistics.”)

She goes on stating that studies show no nutritional differences between organic and chemically-grown foods. I can show her many that do just that and would be glad to pass them on to her. Sadly, most food “studies” are funded by the likes of General Mills, Archer Daniels, etc., who have vested interests in the status quo.

Hart feels like she has “been had” when buying organics. First, she admits she only buys organic by mistake and then feels as if the grocer owes her reparations. She then laments that the non-toxic food is “typically more expensive.” She reminds me of Johnson’s quotation of how so many know “the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

She further states that “thoughtlessness” and “the sense of doing something virtuous” drives the organic consumer.

I sell organic foods to thousands of Floridians every week, and I know of not one who purchases for either reason. In fact, as is the case with almost every one of her statements, just the opposite is true. People think real hard before giving up the convenience of modern shopping to go out of their way and hunt, carefully read labels and pay more for organic food.

Hart ends by saying she goes to the trouble (unlike her virtuous organic friends) to study cost-benefit analysis and ultimately is only concerned with what is best for her family in that context. I hope there are no children in her family, but, if I may stoop to her level with my own snide remark, if she does have children they are probably very well-dressed.

I do agree with her on one of her last sentences: “In our culture it just feels good ... to feel good.”

She should try eating organic for a few weeks and find out how profoundly true that statement is.

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Frank Oakes is the founder of Naples’ Oakes Farm Market, now run by his sons, and Food & Thought at Naples’ Gateway Center.

BORDERS BOOK STORE TREATS ME RIGHT! Relationship author Dr. Molly Barrow

WHAT A DISPLAY OF MATCHLINES: A REVOLUTIONARY NEW WAY OF LOOKING AT RELATIONSHIPS.
Thank you, Borders for a terrific book tour and book signing/talk experience.




Dr. Molly Barrow holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and is the author of the new book, “Matchlines: A Revolutionary New Way of Looking at Relationships and Making the Right Choices in Love,” ISBN 159507158X. Introducing the new relationship compatibility test Match Lines Systems for Successful Relationships by psychology expert Dr. Molly Barrow on her official website: http://www.DrMollyBarrow.com. Love and healthy relationship advice for pre-marital, marriage, dating and business relationships. She is an authority on relationship and psychological topics; a member of the American Psychological Association, Screen Actors Guild, and Author’s Guild and is a licensed mental health counselor. Dr. Molly has appeared as an expert in the film, My Suicide, documentaries Ready to Explode and KTLA Impact, NBC news, PBS In Focus, WBZT talk radio and in O Magazine, Psychology Today, Newsday, The Nest, MSN.com, Yahoo, Match.com, N Magazine, Women’s Health, Harvard Business School, Women’s World and Shrink About This columnist for Scripps newspapers, Hitched Magazine and Menstuff. Dr. Molly Barrow Radio: http://www.blogtalkradio.com

Not This Year Grandma! Holiday Conflicts. Relationship expert Dr. Molly Barrow

As grandparents begin to think about fall and upcoming holidays, they fantasize about family gatherings that resemble their favorite holiday cards. The problem occurs when family members have different cards in mind then they do. Some grandparents hold tight obligatory appearances over their children's heads. But, perhaps the children want to spend a quiet day with their own children instead of traipsing to Grandma and Grandpa's in bad weather and traffic.

How can grandparents make lemonade out of that lemon? Instead, take the opportunity to book a cruise to a warm and exotic getaway where Grandma and Grandpa can remember what it is like to be just You and Me. That does not mean you can not shop and plan a great day for the grandchildren, just learn to be flexible on the date. The next time the grand kids are available, is a good day to celebrate missed holidays. The children will love it and so will you...what ever day that happens.

If you make a big deal out of their absence or force people to spend holidays with you, the day could be ruined for everyone. If you are alone on a holiday, give yourself great presents that you really want. Find a few lonely stragglers and cook a Holiday Friends dinner.

As your children age, they will return less and less. Sad but true. So get yourself back out there and get a life! You might still get that welcomed phone call, "Hey, Mom, we can come home after all!" If not, have plenty to do and work hard to make new friends and share good times together - even if they are not the picture perfect times of your fantasies.

Double Check Your Child's Mental Health Diagnosis!! Relationship expert Dr. Molly Barrow

"For example, in a study conducted in 2001,
nearly one-half of bipolar diagnoses in adolescent inpatients made by
community clinicians were later re-classified as other mental disorders."


WHAT!!! The poor kids....
Remember when doctors were giving women a lobotomy when they were frustrated with housework? And how many women had unnecessary Cesareans and hysterectomies in the fifties and sixties? Well, women have wised up. They are taking more control of their health and acting more cautiously when it comes to surgery. So, what is a multi-billion dollar business to do?
Are you aware that your doctor is inundated with appointments and phone calls to introduce them to the latest medication. Caught in the hallway, a doctor is handed boxes of free samples to experiment with - on himself or his patients and a quick summary of questionable clinical studies...an interpretation in only a few moments by attractive salespersons (usually) women. Most doctors want to sincerely help their patients. But they must also stay on top in the competitive fight for the consumer's dollar. A doctor is after all a business just like Walmart and McDonald's.
According to studies by Columbia University and National Institute for Mental Health drug companies and doctors may have discovered a brand new market? Our children! Read this alarming report by Marcus Zillman.

RATES OF BIPOLAR DIAGNOSIS IN YOUTH RAPIDLY CLIMBING, TREATMENT PATTERNS
SIMILAR TO ADULTS

The number of visits to a doctor's office that resulted in a diagnosis of
bipolar disorder in children and adolescents has increased by 40 times
over the last decade, reported researchers funded in part by the National
Institutes of Health (NIH). Over the same time period, the number of
visits by adults resulting in a bipolar disorder diagnosis almost doubled.
The cause of these increases is unclear. Medication prescription patterns
for the two groups were similar. The study was published in the September
2007 issue of the "Archives of General Psychiatry".

Mark Olfson, M.D., M.P.H., of New York State Psychiatric Institute of
Columbia University, along with National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
researcher Gonzalo Laje, M.D., and their colleagues examined 10 years of
data from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS), an annual,
nationwide survey of visits to doctors' offices over a one-week period,
conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics. The researchers
estimated that in the United States from 1994-1995, the number of office
visits resulting in a diagnosis of bipolar disorder

for youths ages 19 and younger was 25 out of every 100,000 people. By
2002-2003, the number had jumped to 1,003 office visits resulting in
bipolar diagnoses per 100,000 people. In contrast, for adults ages 20 and
older, 905 office visits per 100,000 people resulted in a bipolar disorder
diagnosis in 1994-1995; a decade later the number had risen to 1,679 per
100,000 people.

While the increase in bipolar diagnoses in youth far outpaces the increase
in diagnosis among adults, the researchers are cautious about interpreting
these data as an actual rise in the number of people who have the illness
(prevalence) or the number of new cases each year (incidence).

"It is likely that this impressive increase reflects a recent tendency to
overdiagnose bipolar disorder in young people, a correction of historical
under recognition, or a combination of these trends. Clearly, we need to
learn more about what criteria physicians in the community are actually
using to diagnose bipolar disorder in children and adolescents and how
physicians are arriving at decisions concerning clinical management," said
Dr. Olfson.

The fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders (DSM-IV) provides general guidelines that can help doctors
identify bipolar disorder in young patients. However, some studies show
that youths with symptoms of mania (over-excited, elated mood) -- one of
the classic signs of bipolar disorder -- often do not meet the full
criteria for a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. Other disorders, such as
attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
, may have
symptoms that overlap, so some of these conditions may be mistaken for
bipolar disorder as well. For example, in a study conducted in 2001,
nearly one-half of bipolar diagnoses in adolescent inpatients made by
community clinicians were later re-classified as other mental disorders.

Doctors also face tough questions when deciding on proper treatment for
young people. Guidelines for treating adults with bipolar disorder are
well-documented by research, but few studies have looked at the safety and
effectiveness of psychiatric medications for treating children and
adolescents with the disorder. Despite this limited evidence, the
researchers found similar treatment patterns for both age groups in terms
of use of psychotherapy and prescription medications.

Of the medications studied, mood stabilizers, including lithium -- which
was the only medication approved at the time of the study by the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration for treating bipolar disorder in children -- were
prescribed in two-thirds of the visits by youth and adults. Anticonvulsant
medications, such as valproate (Depakote) and carbamazepine (Tegretol),
were the most frequently prescribed type of mood stabilizers in both
groups.

Doctors prescribed antidepressant medications in slightly over one-third
of visits by youth and adults. Antidepressant medications include the
older classes of antidepressant medications, such as tricyclics,
tetracyclics, and monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs); selective
serontonin reuptake inhibitors, such as fluoxetine (Prozac) and paroxetine
(Paxil); and also newer types of antidepressants, including venlafaxine
(Effexor). In both age groups, about one-third of the visits where
antidepressant medications were prescribed did not include prescription of
a mood stabilizer. This trend raises concerns, considering an earlier
NIMH-funded study (Thase & Sachs, 2000) which reported that treating
adults who have bipolar disorder with an antidepressant in the absence of
a mood stabilizer may put them at risk of switching to mania. Also, a
recent NIMH study showed that for depressed adults with bipolar disorder
who are taking a mood stabilizer, adding an antidepressant medication
was no more effective in managing bipolar symptoms



than a placebo (sugar pill).

Roughly the same percentage of youth and adult bipolar visits included a
prescription for an antipsychotic medication, although young patients were
more likely to be prescribed one of the newer, atypical antipsychotic
medications, such as aripiprazole (Abilify) or olanzapine (Zyprexa), than
other types of antipsychotics. This finding suggests that doctors may be
basing their treatment choices for bipolar youth on prescribing practices
for adults with the disorder.

However, one main difference between youth and adult treatment was that
children and teens were more likely than adults to be prescribed a
stimulant medication -- usually prescribed for treating ADHD -- and adults
were more likely than youth to be prescribed benzodiazepines, a type of
medication used to treat anxiety disorders



More than half of all diagnosed youths and adults were prescribed a
combination of medications. Given the relative lack of studies on
appropriate treatments for youth with bipolar disorder, the researchers
noted the urgent need for more research on the safety and effectiveness of
medication treatments that are commonly prescribed to this age group.

The study had several important limitations. For example, the survey
relied on the judgment of the treating physicians, rather than an
independent assessment. As a result, the researchers' findings reveal more
about patterns in diagnosis among office-based doctors than about
definitive numbers of people affected by the illness. Another limitation
is that the survey recorded the number of office visits instead of the
number of individual patients, so some people may have been counted more
than once.

"A forty-fold increase in the diagnosis of bipolar disorder in children
and adolescents is worrisome," said NIMH Director Thomas R. Insel, M.D.
"We do not know how much of this increase reflects earlier underdiagnosis,
current overdiagnosis, possibly a true increase in prevalence of this
illness, or some combination of these factors. However, these new results
confirm what we are hearing increasingly from families who tell us about
disabling, sometimes dangerous psychiatric symptoms in their children.
This report reminds us of the need for research that validates the
diagnosis of bipolar disorder and other disorders in children and the
importance of developing treatments that are safe, effective, and feasible
for use in primary care."

"This research, performed at a National Center on Minority Health and
Health Disparities Center of Excellence, underscores the need to fully
engage the community with their health care providers to better understand
the actual prevalence of bipolar disease in children and adolescents,"
said John Ruffin, Ph.D., Director of NCMHD.

Additional study authors were Carmen Moreno, M.D., and Carlos Blanco,
M.D., Ph.D., of New York State Psychiatric Institute/College of Physicians
and Surgeons of Columbia University; Andrew B. Schmidt, C.S.W., of New
York State Psychiatric Institute; and Huiping Jiang, Ph.D., of Columbia
University.

The study was funded by the NIMH Intramural Research Program, National
Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), NCMHD, the Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality (AHRQ), the Alicia Koplowitz Foundation, and the New York
State Psychiatric Institute.

Moreno C, Laje G, Blanco C, Jiang H, Schmidt AB, Olfson M. National trends
in the outpatient diagnosis and treatment of bipolar disorder in youth.
"Arch Gen Psychiatry". 2007 Sep;64(9).

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Are You the Worst? Dr. Molly Barrow Relationship Expert

Have you ever felt like you were the worst?
Maybe you joined a new office a year ago and you are still lost and confused. Maybe you are a new mother and your child seems inconsolable. Perhaps you are failing at everything and feel like you will never measure up.

Janice and Crissy were star high school athletes. One was a great golfer and the other was the school's top softball player. They had all the popularity and success that high school kids could want. Then they tried out for the swim team. Their confused parents thought it was odd and even thought it wouldn't last. The girls were the worst ones on the team and could barely swim, much less race. Each time their parent's picked them up after swim practice, they heard discouraging stories about mouthfuls of water while attempting the Butterfly stroke and skinned feet from trying a flip turn. Why would two winners choose to be the worst?

At the parent's meeting, one sunburned coach stood up and began talking about these new and unskilled swimmers.
"I will give a Varsity Letter to these swimmers even if they come in last at every meet. They have the right attitude, they do what I tell them to do, they show up and they try really hard. Right now they can't swim very well. But I see the potential in them to be great swimmers and I want them on my team. I can teach anyone to swim, but not to have a positive attitude and heart. I can see what they will be in two years and they will be great."
The parents left, realizing they had been shortsighted, and shared the coach's words with their children.

The next time you feel discouraged and fail again after you have tried so hard, take a moment to be your own coach and focus on your potential. Keep your good positive attitude, show up and try hard. You will be great someday.


Dr. Molly Barrow holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and is the author of the new book, “Matchlines: A Revolutionary New Way of Looking at Relationships and Making the Right Choices in Love,” ISBN 159507158X. Introducing the new relationship compatibility test Match Lines Systems for Successful Relationships by psychology expert Dr. Molly Barrow on her official website: http://www.DrMollyBarrow.com. Love and healthy relationship advice for pre-marital, marriage, dating and business relationships. She is an authority on relationship and psychological topics; a member of the American Psychological Association, Screen Actors Guild, and Author’s Guild and is a licensed mental health counselor. Dr. Molly has appeared as an expert in the film, My Suicide, documentaries Ready to Explode and KTLA Impact, NBC news, PBS In Focus, WBZT talk radio and in O Magazine, Psychology Today, Newsday, The Nest, MSN.com, Yahoo, Match.com, N Magazine, Women’s Health, Harvard Business School, Women’s World and Shrink About This columnist for Scripps newspapers, Hitched Magazine and Menstuff. Dr. Molly Barrow Radio: http://www.blogtalkradio.com

Walden University Alumni Lecture Series Dr. Molly Barrow Presenter

Walden University Alumni Lecture Series Invitation


School Work to Societal Change - the Business
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
3:00 p.m. Eastern


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Please join us for the latest session of our Alumni Lecture Series, which is scheduled for Wednesday, September 12, at 3 p.m. Eastern time. This month's topic, "School Work to Societal Change - the Business", will be presented by Dr. Molly Barrow, a Walden doctoral recipient and author.

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About the Speaker

Dr. Molly Barrow has a private psychotherapy practice in Southern Florida. She received her doctorate degree from Walden University, with a clinical psychology specialization. Her dissertation was entitled "The Pathways and Pitfalls of Co-parenting After the Divorce." She received both a Master’s degree in Psychology, Counseling and Guidance and an undergraduate degree in Psychology Education with a Business minor from the University of Northern Colorado. She is an associate member of the American Psychological Association. She has also worked with the courts as an expert witness, custody evaluator and assisted with jury selection, evidence evaluation, and witness examination. As a licensed mental health provider, Dr. Molly counsels individuals and families and provides testing, evaluation and treatment. She has worked for over two decades with couples and their children helping them to establish power balance in their interactions.



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