Suffering from bipolar disorder can definitely turn your life completely upside down. It can be scary and frustrating as well. Sometimes you may feel as if you are the only one feeling like that. Take a visit to a bipolar chat room and you will quickly learn there are millions of people just like you. This is also a great way to get answers to questions you have from those who have experienced it.

Many people find it comforting to discover their situation isn t an isolated incident. You can also serve a method of support for others. You likely have the answers to some of their questions. Bipolar chat rooms can be a tremendous wealth of information and

support for those who suffer from bipolar as well as their family and friends who want to find out more about the disorder.

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Charles Conway, M.D. was the lead study investigator at the St. Louis University site for the investigational trial of vagus nerve stimulation therapy for chronic or severe depression. . I had my first screening interview in November of 2000 with Dr. Conway.

Dr. Conway authored the following compelling and thoughtful editorial, which was widely published last week. I hope you will find it very informative.

Government should pay for a new treatment for a grave condition
By Charles R. Conway, M.D.

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In 1937, after a natural gas explosion destroyed a high school in New London, Texas, near the end of a school day, nearby oil workers ran from the fields to find a pile of smoldering rubble. Underneath the debris, they could hear the screams of teenagers and teachers.

In the hours after what was then the second worst disaster in Texas history the actual death count was never determined but approximately 300 lives were lost President Franklin Roosevelt put out a request for medical aid over the radio, and by that evening, doctors and nurses had descended on the town, coming from as far away as Shreveport, Louisiana. Hundreds of vials of anti-tetanus serum were driven to the scene

of the blast. Help was certainly needed. The oil workers pulled out over 200 victims, flagging down passing cars that hauled the injured and dying to the nearest sickbay. The Associated Press reported, The hospitals were jammed.

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Summary

Complex intracellular inclusions were identified in brain cells of patients with non-inflammatory stealth virus encephalopathy. The cells showed extensive disruption of mitochondria leading to the suggestion that the inclusions were providing an alternative (non-mitochondria) source of cellular energy. Pigmented intracellular inclusions and extra-cellular materials were similarly identified in stealth virus cultures.

A characteristic feature of these cultures is the progressive lessening of the cytopathic (cell damaging) effect that coincides with, and is dependent upon, the accumulation of these pigmented materials. Tissue culture and direct patient derived materials exhibit various qualities consistent with their functioning as energy transducers. Specifically, they are composed of conglomerates of finer particles that can display fluorescent, electrostatic, sound resonating and variable magnetic activities. Individual

particles contain various combinations of different minerals. They can act as both electron donors and electron acceptors in redox reactions and can also generate gas bubbles from water.

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From earthquakes to wars to floods and hurricanes, the history of disaster medicine is replete with success and failure when it comes to the results of the physicians and nurses and medical administrators who assist during and in the aftermath of a crisis. And it s a long history. Really, when you look at where disaster medicine started, it goes back to the Civil War battlefields, and even pre-dating to Roman times, says Gary M. Klein, M.D., MPH, MBA, who practices acute care medicine in Atlanta.

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