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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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My Bipolar Life/Guest Posts

Monday, March 8, 2010

In an effort for me and readers of this site to better understand bipolar disorder I have put forth a request for adults with bipolar disorder to write guest posts for this site.   I encourage guest posters to use a pseudonym unless they choose otherwise.   I ask posters to address the following issues:  at what [...]

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NIMH Studies Seeking Participants

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

National Institute of Mental Health Clinical Trials
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/trials/index.shtml
I personally have mixed feeling about these trials and would not involve my child in any that involved medication but I do think participating in these studies can be a good way to get tests and services that one might not be able to afford or have access to [...]

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Chinese Medicine and Bipolar Disorder

Monday, December 21, 2009

The more I think about Rye and watch him and how he relates to emotion I wonder, is bipolar disorder only a brain disorder or is it an extreme body system imbalance?  I mean, sometimes he just seems so off center – like the scale has completely tipped and his body is revolting or stagnated [...]

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Minds On The Edge: Facing Mental Illness

Saturday, December 12, 2009

“The mental health system is a definition of insanity.”
- Judge Steven Leifman
Minds On The Edge is a video I saw on PBS a couple of months back and it is excellent.  I just found where you can watch it for free online so I posted the link and I highly recommend watching it.
This video [...]

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Frontline: Medicating Kids

Friday, November 27, 2009

Medicating Kids is a documentary video on PBS that talks about the use of ADHD medicines in children and follows four families and their use and/or option not to use ADHD medications.
This is the video that came before The Medicated Child, the video about bipolar medication use in children, which I had posted about previously.
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Frontline: The Medicated Child

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

I was made aware of this show by another blog I now like to read called Furious Seasons.
The show is by Frontline on PBS.   You can watch it for free online and I highly recommend it.
I also recommend reading the transcripts of interviews with the various experts – they are excellent as well.
Here’s the link:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/medicatedchild/
It was [...]

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Bipolar Support Blogspot

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

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 [...]

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