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Yearly Archives: 2012

DSM-5: Your Chance To Comment / May 2 – June 15, 2012

Thursday, May 3, 2012

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If you keep up with mental health news, you know there is great trepidation among mental health professionals and the general public regarding the pending release of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM-5.
Questions swirl such as:
After this diagnostic manual is released, will anyone be considered normal?  Will [...]

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hEllo SpRinG!

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Normally I like to stay with the black and white theme but hey, it doesn’t do Spring much justice so…color it is!  Living on the wild side over here, I tell ya.
I haven’t been much for posting lately.  I guess sometimes you just need a break from it.   Anyway, after a rough few months of [...]

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America’s 50 States: Great Android App for Homeschool

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Normally I’m not one to promote things on this blog.  However, a friend of mine wrote this app so I thought I’d take a minute to speak about it.  And, I’d like to think I inspired this one a bit with our family’s adventures in homeschooling. But that may just be my active imagination.
The color [...]

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Happy Late Easter!

Monday, April 9, 2012

I don’t know about you but these crack me up!  Happy Mopey Easter, indeed.
Anyway, Happy Late Easter!  We had a good day.  Not your average Easter, but that’s fine.  No more egg hunts around here.  The Easter Bunny still comes and brings a basket of goodies but he no longer hides eggs.  Bummer.  And yesterday [...]

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Questions & Answers

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Well, wow, I’m not sure what is happening in the Universe right now but this past week I’ve received some really nice emails from people who read the blog.   A few from moms of bipolar children and a couple from adults with bipolar disorder (or who have shown signs of it but manage the symptoms [...]

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Feeling Good Friday

Friday, March 23, 2012

A few weeks back we were sitting in the psychiatrists office waiting to see what kind of magical jellicle med combo we were going to try next with Rye and I opened up the The New Yorker and saw this cartoon by Tom Cheney.
Touche.
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Anyhoo, Happy Friday!   I am so glad it’s the weekend.  Not that [...]

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The Medicine Is Helping

Thursday, March 8, 2012

This is what Rye told me yesterday.  My only addition to that comment would be to say that it is an understatement.  The medicine changes are really helping.  Last week, the week before, the week before that, and the week before that if I had $100,000 in the bank I would have been madly applying [...]

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Like Looking In A Mirror

Friday, March 2, 2012

If I could morph into a taxidermied weasel, this would be me.
Thank you to The Bloggess for always making me laugh.  This is her new Weasel, Juanita.  I think I’ve looked at this picture ten hundred times already today and every time it makes me burst into laughter.
Man, I needed that.
….

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Up And Down And All Around

Thursday, March 1, 2012

[photo source: Library of Congress]
Holy Mother Of God, we have been on a wild ride this past month.  The impact of the move has finally hit Rye and he is struggling with Stability.  And we are all along for the ride.
On the good news of things, we do have a new psychiatrist now.  And we [...]

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Something To Look Forward To

Saturday, February 11, 2012

[tattoo by Shane ONeill]
Rye told me yesterday that when he gets older he’s going to put a tattoo of my face on his chest.
Ummmm no, I say.
Yes, mom, I’m doing it, he says.  You and I are so close and that way you will always be with me and everyone will know how much you [...]

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The Long And Winding Road

Thursday, February 9, 2012

[photo by vaggelisf]
We met with the new psychiatrist today.  Just Don and I.  The first meeting is just us, then the second meeting just Rye, then the third just Don and I again.    In this meeting Don and I recounted the history of our journey with Rye and the symptoms and the diagnoses and the [...]

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