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Geoffrey Venter has to be careful -- as a British American, his run-of-the-mill teenage mistakes could get him deported rather than just grounded. But his lawyer, Ramiro Castro, is going to try every defense in the book to keep him here with his family, including this one:
"He's young. He's been here almost all his life. He has no immediate family anywhere else. He expressed remorse. And he has this bipolar attention deficit disorder," Castro said.
Oof. Bipolar ADD. That's rough.
Liz Spikol is senior contributing editor of Philadelphia Weekly. She writes the award-winning column The Trouble With Spikol, which began as a chronicle of her struggle with mental illness, and has since expanded into humorous musings on everything from graphic novels to how to use a mop. She also writes the paper's book review column, Lit Gloss. This blog -- named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 by PsychCentral -- is about mental illness policy, news, personal journeys and more.