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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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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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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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The Long And Winding Road

Thursday, February 9, 2012

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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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Adjustments

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

[this piece is called 'Changing Raven V' by Rick Bartow.  it can be purchased here.]
Things are looking up.
We have made some adjustments to the school schedule.  We have hired an educational consultant.  We have pushed up our appointment with the new psychiatrist.  I now have a therapist who I look forward to seeing every week.  [...]

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Precarious

Friday, February 3, 2012

Here we are for the past week +.  I am the giraffe/elephant.  Rye is the bear.  I am exhausted.
After a good long stretch of stability, we have hit a bump in the road.  This past week Rye morphed into a person I have not seem in a very long time with symptoms I have not [...]

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What Can I Do To Help?

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Over the years in raising Rye I have learned a thing or two about a thing or two.   Not through therapy, not through books, not through the advice of doctors,  just through hands-on day-to-day dealing with the issues, needs, and complexities of raising a child with bipolar disorder and seeing what works and what doesn’t.  [...]

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This and That

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Rye is skiing today and Don is catching up on sleep so I have a chance to sit and write and think.  Ahhhh.  I’m feeling myself exhale.  Lovely.  Rye’s been sick with a chest cold the past few days so I have not had much time to myself and it’s nice now to have a [...]

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