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June 16th, 2008 — , bipolar, blogging, discrimination, empowerment, healthcare, mental health, mental health america, mental illness, stigma from BamaGal @ Back Across The Line
The House will vote next week on legislation to stop child abuse and neglect at boot camps, wilderness camps, and behavior modification facilities that work with children who have behavioral, emotional, or mental health problems. While tens of thousands of teens attend private residential programs, many go unregulated, allowing practices ranging from sexual abuse to denying youth food, water, 
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June 4th, 2008 — , bipolar, depression, discrimination, empowerment, healthcare, mental health, mental illness, stigma from BamaGal @ Back Across The Line
Calls Needed for Delay of Medicaid Rules Please Mobilize Calls to Legislators Today June 2, 2008–Grassroots advocacy is urgently needed to help secure the moratorium on the seven Medicaid regulations in the supplemental spending bill, approved before Memorial Day by both House and Senate in both versions of the Iraq supplemental funding bill. The rules would greatly reduce access to 
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May 30th, 2008 — , Health, Motivation, NAMI, SAD, bipolar, blogging, depression, empowerment, mental health, mental health america, mental illness from BamaGal @ Back Across The Line
Mental Health America - Take Action
With your help the Senate passed legislation last week to delay the seven controversial Medicaid regulations as part of the supplemental war funding bill (H.R. 2642). The amendment adding this delay on the harmful new rules to the bill passed by a vote of 75 to 22, exceeding the two-thirds vote needed to override a threatened Presidential veto. Don’t 
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May 5th, 2008 — , Personal, WLS, advocasy, empowerment, fat acceptance, fat phobia, mental health, suicide from BamaGal @ Back Across The Line
Yesterday was the 4th anniversary of my WLS.
WOW……what a difference a year makes.
I had a heck of a post all planned to post yesterday. Going into all the new problems that have cropped up for me thanks to the WLS. But in writing that post I wanted to go back and read what I wrote last year. I won’t post it all but here is a part that made me stop and think…..
A question was posed in the
Continue reading → Time for reflection once again…..
April 19th, 2008 — , Motivation, bipolar, blogging, empowerment, inspiration, mental health, mental illness, positive thinking, stigma from BamaGal @ Back Across The Line
A great site was brought to my attention by a fellow blogger. I have just finished reading some of it and felt compelled to write a post. Here’s the comment she left on my blog describing the purpose of the site.
Bipolar Speaks said… Most of you know me as “Dreamwriter.” I recently
Launched a new blog called, “Bipolar Speaks.” One day something came over me as I was reading websites called 
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April 18th, 2008 — , WLS, complications, depression, discrimination, eating disorder, empowerment, fat acceptance, health problems, mortality, obesity, weight loss from BamaGal @ Back Across The Line
I have found many things I would like to blog about. But time is not a luxury right now. I’ll just give you some really great links.
Junkfood Science: News updates: Decisions guided by fears, misinformation and insecurities
An investigative report for the Courier-Mail learned of a doctor who has performed more than a dozen bariatric surgeries on underage teens in the past year. Most disturbing,
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April 10th, 2008 — , depression, empowerment, health problems, inspiration, mental health, weightloss from BamaGal @ Back Across The Line
I found this on one of the many blogs I read and just had to share……
Is there something you have always wanted to do, but keep putting it off for whatever reason? Are you so caught up in the day to day grind you’ve forgotten how to relax?
Bottom line, is real life kicking you in the a$$……
Let go of some of that excess baggage —-I’m talking the mental baggage here folks—-forget 
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December 6th, 2007 — , Health, Motivation, Personal, advocasy, bipolar, causes, depression, empowerment, mental health, mental illness, stigma, suicide from BG @ Back Across The Line
ATTENTION: ACTION NEEDEDWe are SO close! Passage of a strong parity law is within reach. But this session of Congress will end before Christmas. If a parity bill is not passed by then, we risk losing it entirely in election-year deadlock!Join me and ma…
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