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Hi. My name is Meg and I am raising a teen diagnosed with Early Onset Bipolar Disorder. This blog is my story.Pages
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- June 2011 (9)
- May 2011 (13)
- April 2011 (11)
- March 2011 (18)
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- Spring Is Coming
- ADHD: To Medicate Or Not To Medicate
- Saddleback Ranch: Steamboat Springs, Colorado
- My Bipolar Life/HB
- Adaptive Skiing For Physical and Cognitive Disabilities
- Disheartened
- I've Fallen And I Can't Get Up
- Floor It, Smarge
- Pimpin' In The Escalade
- Please Read And Help
- Patience Is A Virtue
- Suicide Ideation: A Chance To Make A Life Change
- The Lost Weekend, That's Ridic
- Two For Two
- Charlie Sheen, You Manic Asshole
- I'm Going To Run Away
- Aunt T. Murray. Mayfield. Paducah. Me.
- PostSecret Tour 2011: Today - Murray, Kentucky
- February 2011 (12)
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- Sunday Review
- Deep Brain Stimulation, Brain Pacemakers To Ease Psychiatric Illness
- This One Goes Out To You, Judy
- Homeschool Road Trip
- Explosive Children, Bipolar Children on Oprah
- How To Make Your Pool Perfect. The Hard Way.
- The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
- Valentine's Day
- Miracles Do Happen
- Ahh, Another Disgusting Low Carb Dinner
- Slowing To A Stop
- My Guest Post/Interview at Rage Against The Washing Machine
- January 2011 (12)
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- 2010
- December 2010 (8)
- November 2010 (16)
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- Just A Happy Little Moron
- Thanksgiving Weekend
- Giving Thanks
- Stubbornicus
- Strong Willed Child
- The Devil And Daniel Johnston: The Documentary
- The Dog Show
- Tora! Tora! Tora!
- Ethereal
- 7th Grade: The Class Schedule
- The Missing Man
- Sometimes You Don't
- Sometimes You Feel Like A Nut
- Be Disruptive, Non-Linear, and Inquisitive
- Pottery Love
- Sometimes I Wonder
- October 2010 (15)
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- Happy Halloween
- Mystery Science Theater 3000
- Homeschool: Reunited And It Feels So Good
- Talenti Gelato: Mediterranean Mint
- Waiting For Superman: The Documentary
- How The Outdated Public Education Model Creates A Rise In ADHD Diagnoses And Lowers Creative Thinking
- Brain Zaps
- Why On God's Green Earth
- Dr. Charles Raison
- One Year Anniversary: Questions & Answers
- Running With Scissors: Augusten Burroughs
- Depth Of Character
- Calle`
- A Change Of Scenery
- Like A G6
- September 2010 (15)
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- The Stress Effect
- Absence Note To School
- Happenings...
- Happy Friday
- Baby, Understand Me Now
- Oh Yes, We Missed It
- It's Friday
- Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP) For Bipolar Disorder
- Seeing Isn't Believing
- Sunday Review
- Happy Friday
- Kurt Cobain: About A Son - The Documentary
- Where For Art Thou?
- Uno, Dos, Tres, Cuatro, Cinco, Cinco, Seis
- My Bipolar Life/Kaley
- August 2010 (16)
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- Shades Of Stability
- Raising The Bar
- Hail St John's
- Back To School
- Teach Me How To Dougie. On The Line.
- Happy Friday
- The Horse Boy: A Documentary Of Autism, Healing & Acceptance
- Follow Your Heart Sunday
- Too Much Depakote
- Miss Percy P
- Some Sensory Issues Can be Outgrown
- Sunday Review, Embarrassingly Late
- The Hours In Between
- The Benefits Of Massage For Bipolar Children, Teens and Adults
- Finding Frivolous Me
- Off Center
- July 2010 (13)
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- Bon Voyage
- Payback Day With Rick Jones
- As 12 Years Old Draws To A Close
- Summer Camp: The Review
- He Made It!
- Criminalizing Your Child: Does It Scare Them Straight?
- In The Absence
- Crazy Heart: This Ain't No Place For The Weary Kind
- Sunday Review
- Children Underground: The Documentary
- Therapy: Love Yourself, Parent Your Self
- Middle School Hair: A Coiffure To Remember
- Eminem: Love The Way You Lie
- June 2010 (13)
- May 2010 (21)
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- The Long Way Home
- The Depakote Is Starting To Work
- Mark Twain & His Daughter Susy
- America: The Story Of Us ~ The History Channel
- A Good Weekend
- It's Friday!
- Meg A. Smith: Runaway Hunter
- Homeschooling Manic Bipolar
- Chicago Love, Bumper Style
- A Case Of The Mondays
- Baby Steps
- Waves Of Honeysuckle
- Mania vs Hypomania
- The Beauty Is In The Story
- Mother's Day In Asheville
- Uncomfortably Numb: The Documentary of Antidepressant Withdrawal
- Garden Love
- Can Chiropractic Adjustments Cure Bipolar Disorder?
- Homeschool: The How And What
- Sunday Review On A Monday
- Aunt Sue & A Boy Named Sue
- April 2010 (24)
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- Live Your Truth
- The Damn Ham
- The Boys Of Baraka
- Homeschooling Bipolar
- The Runaways: The Movie
- Sunday Review
- Momo Ain't Takin' No...
- Stan
- Onward And Upward
- Comments
- Drugging Kids & Bristol Palin
- Psychiatric Medications And Children
- Sunday Review
- So Long Klonopin
- Back At The Homestead
- Next To Normal
- A Behanding In Spokane
- Happy Birthday To Me
- Oh, The Wisteria
- People With Perfect Children Are Perfect Parents
- Forward Motion
- Happy Easter!
- Good Friday
- Happy 40th Birthday Cerise!!!
- March 2010 (30)
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- Therapeutic Parenting Use In Bipolar & RAD
- Goodbye, Oh Lord Of the Flies
- Sunday Review, A Day Late
- Perception
- My Flesh!
- Bipolar, Seizures, Bipolar, Seizures
- All Jacked Up On Coffee And Donuts
- The IEP Meeting
- Cross My Heart
- Hello Spring!
- Depression And Bipolar Support [DBSA] Meeting
- Understanding
- The World Is A Classroom
- Freedom
- Manic Mice Benefit From Lithium
- Sunday Review
- Women, Know Your Limits
- The Calm
- A Reassuring Lie
- Get Up, Stand Up: Stand Up For Your Rights
- Frog Chorus
- My Bipolar Life/Ilse
- My Bipolar Life/Guest Posts
- Changing Times
- It's Saturday
- Pop, Lock, And Drop It
- Teachers Behaving Badly
- Can You Outgrow Bipolar Disorder?
- FUssy
- NIMH Studies Seeking Participants
- February 2010 (24)
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- Sunday Review
- Put Your Big Girl Panties On
- lower case
- The Rise Of Generation T
- Antidepressant [SSRI] Stories And Dangers
- Massage, Anxiety And Mood
- Clotus: A Celebration Of Shortness
- Bipolar Child Or Highly Sensitive Child?
- ...'should' continued...
- Don't 'Should' All Over Everything
- Mood Swings or Manipulation?
- Just Call Me Rick Jones
- February 14, 2010
- The Alternative School
- The Valentine's Dance
- Child Psychiatry: A Real Science?
- A New Day
- Well...
- Where The Wild Things Are
- The Psychiatrist Visit
- For The Love Of Diners
- Bipolar Disorder Or Epileptic Seizures
- Meant To Be Together
- It's Alright
- January 2010 (27)
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- What Just Happened? Part II
- Far Away Eyes
- The Fear And The Confusion
- My Lobotomy
- The Laundromat
- It's Something Everywhere
- Lyme Disease, Psychosis, Neuropsychiatric Symptoms
- Loving The Break
- Abilify, Thoughts of Suicide, Children's Struggle To Communicate
- IEP Meeting & Clampdown
- Smokin A Pall Mall, Drinkin A Colt 45
- The Nightmares Are Gone
- Learning Disabilities And Emotional Lability
- The Zen Of Downhill Skiing
- Nighthawks
- Not Quite Ready
- The Bullfighter
- Youth Mental Illness: More Now Than During The Great Depression?
- All That Glitters Is Not Gold
- This Emotional Life
- The New School
- Psychiatric Hospitals: Change Is Needed
- A Good Day
- What Just Happened?
- Anxiety, Epsom Salts & Benadryl
- Reading And More Reading
- 2010
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- 2009
- December 2009 (16)
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- 2009: A Year Of Learning
- Home Again, Home Again
- Merry Christmas, May Peace Be With you
- Chinese Medicine and Bipolar Disorder
- This Week In Review
- Latisse or Lashisse: You Decide
- I Love You Millions
- Here Comes Santa Claus
- Medicaid Kids On More Antipsychotics: Better Treatment?
- Happy Anniversary, Don!
- Minds On The Edge: Facing Mental Illness
- Psychiatric Medicines We've Tried
- Nightmares
- I'm Pooped And I Don't Want To Play Nice
- The Bipolar Child: Mostly In America?
- The Importance of Sleep
- November 2009 (25)
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- CABF's Response to Frontline's The Medicated Child
- Teaching Disabilities
- Thanksgiving
- Frontline: Medicating Kids
- Catch Up
- The Child Beneath The Medicine
- Up by Pixar
- Med Withdrawal
- A Chuckle A Day
- Au Naturale
- Cinda, Linea and Bipolar
- Rye's Shangri-La
- Happy Birthday Gam!
- Oh, The Adderall
- Thank You Veterans
- The Science Of It All
- The Role of Hormones
- Sunday, Sunday
- Soulful Sepulcher
- The Great Debate
- The Big Sleep
- Welcome Home
- Frontline: The Medicated Child
- Into The Wild
- The Day After
- October 2009 (16)
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- Happy Halloween
- Bipolar Support Blogspot
- The Walrus And The Carpenter
- Starry, Starry Night
- Today's Tom Sawyer
- Right Here In River City
- More Energy, Please
- Mellow Melodies
- An Unquiet Mind
- The Trap
- The Report Card
- Goodnight Moon, Goodnight Seroquel
- Up, Up and Away
- The Up Side
- The Visual
- And So It Begins...
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We got to 80 degrees today, the kids are already asking to swim!