Suicide note,,girl sets herself afire outside parents home ,victims of bipolar disorder more creative, engineering student leaps to death

Man wants body donated for medical research as his last wish PTI | 10:11 PM,Nov 06,2011 Mumbai, Nov 6 (PTI) In a unique case, a 58-year-old man has left behind a suicide note saying his body be donated for medical research, before killing himself, police said. The deceased Jaywant Kurle was staying in the suburban Malad with his wife Kishori and three sons. On Sunday, Kurle got into an argument with his wife and killed himself when Kishori had left for market and his sons were not at home, they said. Police said Kishori discovered about her husband's death as her repeated knockings on the door of the flat failed to elicit any response. According to police, though Kurle was rushed to Bhagwati hospital he was declared dead before admission and preliminary reports indicated that he had consumed pesticide. Police further said they found a suicide note written in Marathi in his bedroom in which he said that he wanted his body to be donated to medical fraternity for research. Kurle's family members have given a statement that he was a short-tempered person and would go to extremes even at the slightest provocation. PTI VI NSK --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mumbai girl sets herself afire outside parents’ house Published: Saturday, Nov 5, 2011, 8:00 IST By Manish K Pathak | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA A 25-year-old girl committed suicide by setting herself ablaze in Dahisar on Friday after her parents bashed up her husband. The girl had a love marriage six months ago. The police said Jaishri Shah fell in love with her neighbour, Laxman (30) and married him six months ago. However, their family members were against the marriage. “Shah and Laxman took a house on rent at Malwani area in Malad (West) and but recently they started facing financial problem so they approached their parents,” said a police officer. “But Laxman’s parents refused to take them inside. Shah then approached her family and said that she would live along with her husband. Shaha’s parent said that they can only allow her to live with them but they would not permit her husband,” said the officer. Shah then forcibly entered the house along with her husband and said her parents that both would live there. After that the argument started between her and her parents. Shah’s two younger brothers— Mangesh Gurav and Vishvanath—were also against the marriage and they started beating Laxman. “Shaha’s bother bashed up Laxman due to which he was admitted to the Bhagwati Hospital. Shah got upset and after two days she poured kerosene on her and burnt her in-front of her parent’s house,” said the police. “She sustained 100% percent burns and after four days she died at the Bhagwati hospital. Shaha told in her statement that she took such drastic step because her parents did not allow them to enter their home and also assaulted her husband,” said senior inspector Ansar Peerzade of the Dahisar police station. “We have registered the case against Shaha’s father Vasant Gurav, mother Satyawati and two brothers Mangesh and Vishwanath,” said the police. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rejected' for being short, man sends obscene messages V Narayan, TNN Nov 5, 2011, 05.27AM IST MUMBAI: The MIDC police on Thursday arrested a 30-yearold man for allegedly sending obscene SMSs and making lewd calls to more than 10 homemakers from the western suburbs and harassing them for three months. The accused, Udhay Rasal, is employed with the cargo division at the international airport . He told the police that he was frustrated because several women had turned down his marriage proposals. He committed the offence to "ensure that if he did not have a life, no woman should have one either" , the police said. "Rasal comes across as a sex maniac," said MIDC police senior inspector S L Hujband said. "He says women refuse to marry him because he is thin, only 4.5-ft tall and dark." Investigators said only one victim has lodged a complaint so far. "Rasal sends obscene SMSs to victims between 11pm and 5.30am. He told us that he was depressed after his younger brother got married and had a child while nobody was ready to marry him," said an officer. A 40-year-old Vile Parle-based woman, who runs a beauty parlour, alleged that the accused had been sending her lewd SMSs for over a month and a half. "The messages were very obscene. The sender also called me up, threatening me not to change my number." The police found over 100 photographs of women stored on his mobile. "He procured a SIM card with documents that belonged to someone from Bhandup. He would call up random numbers and if a woman picked up, he saved that number . He would then harass these women," Hujband said. "The complainant told us that a woman from Sahar told her that her husband was about to seek divorce because of the SMSs. However, there was no contact with the woman ever since," Hujband said. Investigators said Rasal initially discontinued the number , but was tracked down with the help of his cellphone's IMEI number. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Housewife ends life at parents' home TNN Nov 6, 2011, 02.19AM IST Tags: Suicide| housewife MUMBAI: A 22-year-old housewife committed suicide at her maternal home at Pratiksha Nagar in Sion on Sunday. The deceased, Ashwini Chaugule, stayed with her husband in a village in Maharashtra and was visiting her parents. The incident came to light when Ashwini's friend Ruchita Bhosle came to her house to give her food around 11am. Bhosle found Chaugule hanging from the ceiling fan with her dupatta. The Wadala Truck Terminal police have registered a case of accidental death. In another case at Malwani, a 46-year-old labourer entered a water tank after getting drunk and drowned. Police officers suspect the deceased, Balraj Venkatesh, intended to end his life. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Study: Bipolar Kids Often More Creative Risk of Bipolar Disorder May Contribute to Creativity in Children WebMD Health News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD Nov. 14, 2005 -- Children with or at risk for bipolar disorder may be more creative than other, healthy children, according to a new study. Researchers found that a small group of children of bipolar parents scored significantly higher on a creativity index than other children. They say the findings add to a growing evidence of a link between mood disorders, like bipolar disorder, and creativity. "I think it's fascinating," says researcher Kiki Chang, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University, in a news release. "There is a reason that many people who have bipolar disorder become very successful." Researchers say many eminent artists, writers, and other creative individuals have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, which is marked by dramatic shifts in a person's mood, energy, and ability to function. But they say this is the first study to look at creativity in the children of bipolar parents, who are at increased risk of developing the disorder. Bipolar Disorder May Contribute to Creativity In the study, which appears in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, researchers examined creative characteristics in 40 families with at least one parent with bipolar disorder and their children. They compared them with 18 healthy adults and 18 of their healthy children. The children in the study ranged in age from 9 to 18. Half of the children of bipolar parents also had the disorder, and the other half had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Researchers say ADHD is often considered an early sign of bipolar disorder in children of parents with the condition. All of the participants received a psychological evaluation and then completed a test that objectively measures creativity. The scoring is based on how people like or dislike figures of varying complexity and symmetry. Studies suggest that more creative people tend to "dislike" simple and symmetrical figures. The results showed that the bipolar parents had 120% higher "dislike" scores than the healthy parents. Children with bipolar disorder and those with ADHD scored 107% and 91% higher, respectively, than the healthy children. Researchers say the creativity found in people with bipolar disorder may stem from the mobilizing energy needed to transform negative emotion into some sort of solution to their problems. "In this case, discontent is the mother of invention," says researcher Terence Ketter, MD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford, in the release. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Engineering student leaps to death from hostel TNN Nov 7, 2011, 05.17AM IST WARANGAL: An M Tech first year student from Delhi leapt to death from his hostel building at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Kazipet here on Sunday. Sources said stress and parental pressure led 23-year-old Ankur Bharadwaj to commit suicide. Police are also investigating into a possible ragging angle. Bharadwaj, whose room was on the second floor, rushed to the eighth storey of his Ultra Mega hostel on the NIT campus around 4.30 pm, and jumped down. Upon hearing a loud thud, hostellers rushed to the spot and found Bharadwaj in a pool of blood. They immediately alerted the warden who informed the police. Kazipet deputy superintendent of police (DSP) Venkat Narsaiah told TOI that Bharadwaj was upset ever since his parents told him to continue his course in the NIT. "He spoke to his parents on Saturday night and expressed his wish to go back to Delhi. He also threatened to commit suicide if they forced him to pursue his course in Warangal," the DSP said. A student of structural engineering course, Bharadwaj was both meritorious and religious. "He used to perform puja every day in his room before attending classes. He was good in academics too," a fellow student said. Bharadwaj did his bachelor of engineering course from Delhi Engineering College. Though rumours were doing the rounds that Bharadwaj might have taken the extreme step due to ragging, NIT authorities ruled out such a possibility. NIT director Srinivasa Rao said police have registered a case and launched an inquiry into the circumstances leading to his suicide. The body was sent for autopsy to MGM Hospital in Warangal. After police conveyed the tragic news, his parents were on their way to Warangal. The deceased student's father, Rajbir Sharma, resides at East Nathu colony in Delhi. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marriage knot so bad for schizo patients: Study Sumitra Deb Roy, TNN Nov 7, 2011, 02.35AM IST MUMBAI: In a society where marriage is sacrosanct, doctors treating mental health patients often face the dilemma whether they should advise their patients to tie the knot or stay away. A study by the psychiatry department of Sion hospital, focusing only on schizophrenia patients, has attempted to take the problem head on, and has come out with some surprising findings. The year-long study carried out by psychiatrist Dr Vikas Deshmukh of the civic-run hospital has shown that a fairly high-70% of schizophrenia patients out of 101-had tied the knot, and have been married for between five and 15 years. Interestingly, the marital rate of schizophrenia patients seems to be just 10-15% less than that of the general population. India is believed to be home to at least 7 million schizophrenia patients.An accepted norm, as social experts and physicians agree, is that most parents of schizophrenia patients tend to get the latter married by hiding the ailment from the in-laws and spouse. This study has clearly shown that the practice could do more harm than good to the patients. Numbers showed that unions fared better in cases where the spouse and his/her family were informed about the illness prior to the marriage. The success rate was as high as 84% in terms of sustainability of the union. The divorce rates, on the other hand, were as high as 42% in cases where the spouse or the family was kept in dark about the ailment. The divorce rate in instances where the in-laws were informed about the ailment before marriage was about 16%. Calling it a significant finding, Dr Deshmukh said, "We have observed that if the ailment is kept under wraps, the patient tends to skip medication as he/she is paranoid about getting caught. It also adds to the patient's stress." He added that in case of unmarried patients, parents had either not considered marriage or were unwilling to do so. "Male patients bore the brunt of the outlook compared to female patients," he said. Interestingly, Deshmukh's teacher and head of psychiatry department at Sion hospital, Dr Nilesh Shah, begged to differ. "Not undermining the findings of the study, I would still recommend patients to get married without informing the spouses. That's because, by talking about the ailment at the very beginning, the patient loses his/her faint chances of finding social support," he said. "Yes, in cases, where the patient has found some acceptance from his/her spouse or in-laws, the chance (of disclosing the ailment) could be taken," he said. Shah justified his stand, saying that one has good chances of developing mental ailment like schizophrenia even after marriage. Strongly refuting this argument, marriage counsellor Dr Rajan Bhonsale said that hiding details about an ailment such as schizophrenia would amount to cheating. "It could also become a legal issue between the couple," he added. It may be noted that global studies have also established that over 30% of schizophrenia patients can pass off as normal people with medication, while another 30% could show some signs of the ailment. Yet, the idea of marriage in patients suffering from schizophrenia did not seem to have many takers in the educated class. An employed patient, however, has greater chances of getting a life partner. Deshmukh clearly said that the idea of the study was not to propagate marriage as a treatment but to definitely look at it as a social support. Also, marriages among Hindu patients seemed to last longer. Age, too, had a role to play in sustainability of marriage as earlier the age of onset of schizophrenia, less the probability of the marriage sustaining. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Success rate of marriages of schizo patients Male---marriages sustained 85% and seperated /divorced 15% Female- 73.3 % 26.7% Education upto primary 75% 25% (std5) above primary 82.6% 17.4% Employment Employed 81.7% 18.3% unemployed 70-% 30% ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sion hosp plans marriage bureau for mentally ill TIMES NEWS NETWORK Mumbai: The psychiatry department of Sion hospital is toying with the idea of starting a marriage bureau for mentally ill patients undergoing treatment at the hospital. The hospital is looking to tie up with private agencies which can find suitable matches for patients recommended by the department and also look into the logistics of running the bureau.Head of the department,Dr Nilesh Shah,said,We have many patients enquiring for a suitable bride or groom.The idea is to provide a forum for people choosing to marry a mentally ill patient or vice-versa, he said. Sion hospital handles more than 7,500 fresh mental health cases annually and thrice the number of follow-up cases. Said psychiatrist Dr Vikas Deshmukh,Getting married is very much a fundamental right.Why should anyone be denied that right After all,most of the mental illnesses can be well-managed with slight doses of medication.