At the point when Rye was actually diagnosed, one of the things I would do is stay up at night and obsessively scour the internet looking for blogs from parents of bipolar children.
I was looking to find out…What is it like? What is going to be in our future? What are the gritty details of the path that is now upon us? What meds do people use? etc, etc. I wanted any and all information.
During one of my evenings of research, I found this blog and I want to share it with you because it really pulled at my heart.
www.bipolarsupport.blogspot.com
This blog is no longer being updated and when you link to it you will see why but I am so grateful to this family for putting this out there. In an odd way, I found it comforting. Well the honesty, I guess, is what I found comforting and the heartfelt concern these parents have for their child. I can relate – especially with having a boy that lives life to the fullest.
This blog is what inspired me to start my blog. My writing style is very different than that of the parents of bipolarsupport and I talk about all kinds of things going on in my life, stories, etc. in my blog, many of which are unrelated to bipolar, but my heart is in the same place. I am not exactly at the point they were when they started their blog in that my child is still at home and we have a good five to six years to go until he is out there completely making his own decisions. Nonetheless, their story inspired me to capture our memories while I can and focus on the positive as it happens – because you just never know what the future will bring.
My hope in writing my blog is that I can pay forward what they gave to me. Writing Raising Bipolar helps me reflect on our daily lives, capture the good moments and the bad and essentially acts as therapy for me. Also, I’d like to know that maybe, just maybe I let another family of a bipolar child know that they are not alone in this journey.
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Here is the link to the main blog written by the one you found in your post.
http://livingbipolar.blogspot.com/
It has many blogs on the side bar that you might be interested in, hope this helps.