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Comedy is the best therapy ever

When Tazz Norris "came out" in 2001, he talked openly about his illness and found his calling as the "Bipolar Buddha."

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  • Ricardo Maddalena lives in an innovative housing project in downtown Montreal that is operated by Chambreclerc, a non-profit group in the city that offers housing to long-time homeless men and women with severe psychiatric disabilities. 'It’s so wonderful to have my own bed, my own room. I’ve decided to stay here for a while.'

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  • Although inducing seizures to treat psychiatric conditions was practised since the 15th century, the use of electric shocks to do so was pioneered in the late 1930s and became widespread in the 1940s. Here, doctors at Patton State Hospital in California in 1942 treat a patient with

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