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The New Psychiatrist

Thursday, November 17, 2011

We met with the new psychiatrist this week. Or what may become the new psychiatrist. I say ‘may’ because I have also made an appointment with another psychiatrist so we’ll see who we like better.
So, how was he? Well, ok, I guess. This one is fairly young. He’s less than 10 years out of med [...]

Filed in ADHD, General Bipolar, Learning Disabilities, psychiatry | Also tagged bipolar, bipolar child, bipolar medication, bipolar teen, child psychiatry, hyperactivity, learning disorders, manic depression, mental health, mood disorder nos, pediatric bipolar, psychiatry, teen bipolar | Comments (6)

Dr. Stuart Kaplan: Childhood Bipolar Disorder vs. ADHD

Monday, June 27, 2011

photo source: Dr. Walter Freeman performing a lobotomy, once hailed by The New York Times as the modern miracle treatment for mental illness
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As for Dr. Stuart Kaplan and his Newsweek article, here are my thoughts.
Thank you Newsweek Magazine for your cutting edge journalism and breaking scientific studies but Dr. Kaplan is about 20-30 years late [...]

Filed in ADHD, General Bipolar, Mania, psychiatry | Also tagged bipolar child, bipolar medication, bipolar teen, child psychiatry, dr stuart kaplan, emotional regulation, Mania, manic depression, mental health, ODD, pediatric bipolar, teen bipolar, You Child Does Not Have Bipolar Disorder | Comments (7)

ADHD: To Medicate Or Not To Medicate

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Every teacher and tutor Rye has ever had will tell you very clearly, he has ADHD. I know it, we know, his pdoc knows it. It’s obvious. And has been since he was about 5 years old. He has a very short attention span when it comes to traditional learning and it takes a very [...]

Filed in ADHD, General Bipolar, Meds | Also tagged Adderall, attention deficit, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, bipolar, bipolar child, bipolar medication, bipolar teen, depakote, homeschool, learning, Mania, pediatric bipolar, psychosis, seroquel, teen bipolar | Comments (4)

Explosive Children, Bipolar Children on Oprah

Sunday, February 20, 2011

The 7 year old who tried to kill his mom.
I’ll admit, because we do not watch much television I had no idea this show was on until I read about it on the internet. And my first thought when I saw that the show was coming on was, What happened to HIPPA and Children’s Right [...]

Filed in General Bipolar | Also tagged antipsychotics, anxiety, Auditory Hallucinations, autism spectrum, bipolar, bipolar child, bipolar medication, bipolar teen, brit on oprah, child psychiatry, emotional regulation, hearing voices, Mania, manic depression, medication, mental health, mental health treatment, oprah winfrey show, parenting, pediatric bipolar, pediatric mental illness, psychiatric hospital, psychiatry, psychosis, sensory integration disorder, teen bipolar, therapeutic schools, tourette's syndrome, visualization | Comments (6)

BigB

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Over Christmas in a complete six degrees of separation type of occurrence we found out where BigB is living. Just like that. After years of having no idea if he is dead or alive or what the case may be and without looking for the information at all… boom. One conversation with one person I [...]

Filed in General Bipolar, Life In General | Also tagged addiction, alcoholism, bipolar, dads, delancey street foundation, dreams, manic depression, mental illness, Mimi Silbert, rehab, self medicating, the chains that bind | Comments Off

Sometimes I Wonder

Monday, November 1, 2010

if Rye is going to have a hard time making good decisions for himself as he gets older. And sometimes it really scares me. It’s tricky because at times he can be such a mature and astute kid and can make really good decisions, is a good conversationalist and seems to really have his head [...]

Filed in ADHD, General Bipolar | Also tagged bipolar, bipolar teen, decision making, homeschool, importance of environment, pediatric bipolar, peer pressure, public school, Special Education | Comments (3)

Homeschool: Reunited And It Feels So Good

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Yes, we are officially homeschooling again.
And now we’ll need a few days to decompress from the ‘heightened state of awareness’ lifestyle we’ve become accustomed to living.
Because when you are a special needs child or the parent of a special needs child and you are dealing with lower functioning public schools [of which there are way [...]

Filed in Special Education, homeschool | Also tagged anxiety, BIP, bipolar, bipolar teen, dyslexia, education law, FAPE, Free Appropriate Public Education, homeschool, homeschooling, iep, klee, Learning Disabilities, mental health, middle school, parenting, public school, school anxiety, Special Education, teen bipolar | Comments (2)

How The Outdated Public Education Model Creates A Rise In ADHD Diagnoses And Lowers Creative Thinking

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

This is a great video. It is about the current public education model and how it is based on the times of the Industrial Revolution and harms as many kids as it helps. As Don and I seriously contemplate pulling our son out of public school again [as we see daily that it's doing him [...]

Filed in IEPs, Learning Disabilities, Special Education | Also tagged ADD, bipolar child, dyslexia, Free Appropriate Public Education, iep, Learning Disabilities, middle school, public school, Special Education | Comments (3)

Dr. Charles Raison

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

This morning I had a specific post in mind to write. I wanted to write about Serotonin Syndrome. Serotonin Syndrome is a medical syndrome in which the body becomes toxic from having too much serotonin in the body due to the use of serotonin altering medications. In preparation for the post, I was researching [...]

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Happenings…

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Things are clicking along here.
The good news is that the home life is good, Rye is doing well at home and has *so far* [I have a feeling this is about to change] what is probably his best school attendance ever. He has only missed a couple of days so far this year and for [...]

Filed in General Bipolar, Learning Disabilities, Life In General, Special Education | Also tagged adolescent psychiatry, anxiety, bipolar medication, bipolar teen, child psychiatry, community college, dyslexia, GED, homeschool, iep, Learning Disabilities, middle school, school, school anxiety, Special Education, teen bipolar | Comments (1)

Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP) For Bipolar Disorder

Thursday, September 16, 2010

So, as you know by now, we have a few difficulties with the school Rye attends. And that would be a gross understatement. Without going back over it all, suffice it to say this is not the most enlightened, progressive, or proactive public school in the world. Or, even in our county (which, by the [...]

Filed in ADHD, General Bipolar, IEPs, Learning Disabilities, Special Education | Also tagged behavior intervention plan, BIP, bipolar child, bipolar teen, FBA, federal law, functional behavioral assessment, iep, Learning Disabilities, mental health law, OHI, other health impaired, pediatric bipolar, public education law, public school, Special Education, teen bipolar | Comments (2)