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Bipolar disorder is a very serious mental illness. People with bipolar disorder experience dramatic mood swings. They experience an overly energetic high as well as a lightening-fast crash to hopeless, depressing lows — and then back again. The high feeling is called mania. The down feeling is depression.

Unfortunately, bipolar disorder can can be inherited. It usually starts in late adolescence or early adulthood. If you think you may have it, tell your health care provider. A medical checkup can rule out other illnesses that might cause your mood changes.

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The Veterans’ Administration offers an Improved Pension with Aid and Attendance (A&A) benefit that is largely unknown. Unfortunately, this most important benefit is overlooked by many families with Veterans or surviving spouses who need additional monies to help care for ailing parents or loved ones. That’s why I’m so delighted to have Debbie Burak of www.VeteranAid.org on the show to tell you everything you need to know about this “pension benefit” that is not dependent upon service-related injuries for compensation. With money tight for most of us these days, you can’t afford to miss this show.

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More and more, people are turning to herbal and nutritional supplements for better memory and longer life. Some supplements are very familiar while others are less well known. Fortunately, there is a lot of investigation and research being carried out in Asia and Europe on natural and herbal remedies of that have a positive effect on memory.

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I am a lot of things to many people. Daughter. Sister. Best friend. Writer. Columnist. Blogger.

Oh, yeah, and I have a physical disability, too.

Yes, I know that might sound a bit strange. To list one’s disability as a footnote of sorts, but that’s how I’ve come to view my disability. I was born with Freeman-Sheldon Syndrome, a rare genetic bone and muscular disorder. I’ve lived with its ups and downs all my life. It’s become a part of me.

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This month it’s all about summer fun. Listen to our Clothes Clinic phone-in; your questions answered by blind fashion columnist Claire Jennings and WheelieChix-Chic fashion house founder Louisa Summerfield. Rob Crossan attempts to thrash our presenters at a disability quiz, our Vegetable Vegetable or Vegetable game returns plus music from unsigned band Bete Noire and oodles of chat. With Mat Fraser and Liz Carr.

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