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Can Chiropractic Adjustments Cure Bipolar Disorder?

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

A few weeks back a mom emailed me regarding her daughter who had been diagnosed as a young girl with bipolar disorder.  Her daughter is now grown but through a series of emails she shared with me a bit of history about her daughter’s struggles when she was younger with school and moods and their [...]

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Sunday Review On A Monday

Monday, May 3, 2010

The events of last week:
We headed back to the Neurologist and Rye had a sleep deprived EEG.  We didn’t get optimal results because despite the fact that he was really tired, Rye was so nervous about it that he never did fall asleep during the test.  So…it wasn’t what it could have been.
We also saw [...]

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Psychiatric Medications And Children

Monday, April 19, 2010

Some thoughts on psychiatric medications and children:
I’ve been reading a lot of articles lately of recent accounts of children dying from taking pharmaceutical psychiatric drugs.  In one case the child’s body system shut down due to overdose, in another the child had a heart attack, and in another the child hung himself.
And all I can [...]

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Forward Motion

Monday, April 5, 2010

Bipolar, seizures, learning disabilities, memory problems, inattention – they are all related.  That’s what the new doctor told me today.  Not always, but often.  Kind of a package deal, if you will.
We have progress over here on the medical front.

I’m happy to say that we now have good insurance through Don’s work and we can [...]

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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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