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James Holmes Suggested He Suffered From ‘Dysphoric Mania’ Weeks Before Attack

The first hint that James Holmes suffers from bipolar disorder comes from the alleged shooter himself. But exactly what is ‘dysphoric mania’? Eliza Shapiro reports.

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A couple of weeks before he allegedly opened fire in a packed Aurora, Colo., movie theater, killing 12 people and injuring 58 others during a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises, James Holmes told a classmate he might be suffering from a type of bipolar disorder known as dysphoric...

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