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Monthly Archives: March 2010

Therapeutic Parenting Use In Bipolar & RAD

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Parenting bipolar children and teens is tough.  It requires a lot of patience, flexibility, creativity, forgiveness, the ability to forget, the capacity to always be teaching, the willingness to always be learning, sensitivity, stamina, openness, firmness, gentleness, empathy, physical strength, mental strength, emotional strength, and the capacity to provide an outpouring of unconditional love beyond [...]

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Goodbye, Oh Lord Of the Flies

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

After an incredibly terrible rage/meltdown on Rye’s part after school yesterday (he was whipped by another kid with a long stick that made a huge welt/mark on him and nothing was done to protect him or help him), me having to completely knock him out with Klonopin when we got home just to calm him [...]

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Sunday Review, A Day Late

Monday, March 29, 2010

After what felt like an excruciating week, we actually had a really nice weekend.
Rye had two friends spend the night Friday night and that went well.  Saturday he went to a birthday party with said friends and Don and had a great time while Gam and I drove south of here to the deep South [...]

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Perception

Friday, March 26, 2010

Perception is a weird thing.

We went to court this morning for the teacher incident.  The court date was continued for another month so the teacher could get a court appointed attorney.   This is the standard chain of events.  It was interesting though because the teacher was there at the court (she was required to be).  [...]

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My Flesh!

Thursday, March 25, 2010

We had the funniest thing happen here last night.
It involved Rye having a very surface level cut, the concept of ripping flesh, and the anticipation of his leg falling off.  And honestly, I have not laughed that hard in eons.  I actually wet my pants because I could not stop laughing.   Literally, I could barely [...]

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Bipolar, Seizures, Bipolar, Seizures

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Which is it??  Or is it both??
This is where we are again.  Rye had an incident yesterday where out of nowhere he spent about 3 minutes blurting out expletives non-stop.   I mean non-stop.  It is so weird when he does that.  You can’t believe how fast he can rattle them off.  We were in the [...]

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All Jacked Up On Coffee And Donuts

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Well, good Lord yesterday was a long one.
I was stressed all day.  Had that darned meeting.  Came home.  Was a total brain dead, glassy-eyed zombie.   Watched ‘Dancing with the Stars’, which proved to be good mindless entertainment.   Cried.   Fell asleep.
Woke up this morning dragging.  Eyes swollen.  Low blood sugar (didn’t eat dinner).  Took [...]

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The IEP Meeting

Monday, March 22, 2010

Well, it’s done for now.  It was very tense and 2.5 hours long and we still didn’t cover everything.  But we did get Rye a shortened day.  And he will no longer have Social Science or Science classes for the rest of the year.  We’ll just focus on reading, writing, and math.  I’m happy with [...]

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Cross My Heart

Sunday, March 21, 2010

After a long week we had a great weekend.
On his own accord, Rye bought a cross necklace so he can keep God near his heart.
Beautiful.

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Hello Spring!

Saturday, March 20, 2010

It’s a beautiful day here and we are all working outside today in the yard.
It’s nice to be outside in the sunshine again!!

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Depression And Bipolar Support [DBSA] Meeting

Friday, March 19, 2010

I have been wanting to go to one of these for months.   And yet I never went.
I was nervous to go.  Being honest, it all sounded a bit depressing.  No, more than a bit depressing.  Really depressing.  A bunch of depressed people sitting around discussing depression?  Yikes.   What could be worse, really?
Well, last night I [...]

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