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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 [...]

Filed in General Bipolar, Life In General | Also tagged instability | Comments (0)

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. [...]

Filed in General Bipolar | Also tagged asking for help, avoiding rages, bipolar child, bipolar teen, helping your child avert a meltdown, helping your child avert a rage, helping your child manage their emotions, how to avert an emotional meltdown, learning to manage emotions, problem solving, teaching self awareness, therapeutic parenting | Comments (6)

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 ADHD, 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)

Stability and Emotional Maturity

Monday, July 25, 2011

I’ll tell you, this has been quite a summer for us. Rye is doing really well. If you didn’t know him well or he didn’t tell you (he’s very open with telling people he is bipolar), you would have no idea that he is bipolar.
He is that stable.
One of the things I have noticed recently [...]

Filed in Life In General | Also tagged bipolar child, bipolar teen, child psychiatry, emotional growth, emotional maturity, emotional regulation, manic depression, pediatric bipolar, stability, teen bipolar | Comments (5)

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, ADHD, attention deficit, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, bipolar child, bipolar medication, bipolar teen, depakote, homeschool, learning, Mania, pediatric bipolar, psychosis, seroquel, teen bipolar | Comments (4)

Disheartened

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Well, I’ll tell you, we are having a great time on our trip. I will say, though, that on this trip I have been spending quite a bit of time reading blogs, reading books, and reading articles in the evenings when the world becomes quiet.
And I am disheartened.
This week I was asked to speak on [...]

Filed in General Bipolar, Life In General | Also tagged Abilify, advice, bipolar child, bipolar medication, bipolar teen, bloggers, blogging, blogging about children, blogging about children's mental health issues, blogging ethics, child psychiatry, children's right to privacy, clinical trials, depression, emotional regulation, experts, health activism, Mania, manic depression, mental health, mental health law, mental health treatment, parenting, pediatric bipolar, psychiatric hospital, psychiatric medications, psychosis, seeking advice, teen bipolar | Comments (11)

Suicide Ideation: A Chance To Make A Life Change

Friday, March 11, 2011

I love this poster and I truly believe in the message it sends.
If you’d like to read more, go to
The Icarus Project, Navigating The Space Between Brilliance And Madness
____________
and
thanks to
Beyond Meds
for posting this image and site for me to see

Filed in General Bipolar, depression | Also tagged adherence to society's standards, change your life, fear, manic depression, shame, suicidal thoughts, suicide, suicide alternatives, suicide prevention, the icarus project, the space between brilliance and madness, wanting to kill yourself | Comments (3)

Charlie Sheen, You Manic Asshole

Saturday, March 5, 2011

You want to see what full-blown mania looks like? This is is.
You want your teen to see why taking their medication is important? This is it.
You want your teen to see what they look like when they are in full-blown mania? Especially as adults? This is it.
Who on God’s earth would want to deal with [...]

Filed in General Bipolar, Mania | Also tagged addiction, bi-loser, bi-winning, bipolar medication, charlie sheen, damage creating during mania, delusions, drug use, grandiosity, Mania, manic asshole, manic depression, manic lifestyle, mental health, perfect example of mania, self medicating, teen bipolar, unmedicated mania | Comments (7)

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 ADHD, antipsychotics, anxiety, Auditory Hallucinations, autism spectrum, 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, ADHD, alcoholism, dads, delancey street foundation, dreams, manic depression, mental illness, Mimi Silbert, rehab, self medicating, the chains that bind | Comments Off

Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking: HBO Documentary

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Carrie Fisher has a new documentary film coming out December 12, 2010 on HBO called Wishful Drinking. In this film Carrie talks about growing up, her parent’s marriage, her career, her battle with addiction, time spent in mental hospitals, her diagnosis of bipolar disorder and the ECT treatments she received while trying to help ease [...]

Filed in General Bipolar, documentary films | Also tagged addiction, alcoholism, bipolar disorder, ECT, manic depression, mental health, mental hospitals, psychiatric hospital, self medicating | Comments (3)

Raising Bipolar

Tag Archives: bipolar

Precarious

What Can I Do To Help?

The New Psychiatrist

Stability and Emotional Maturity

ADHD: To Medicate Or Not To Medicate

Disheartened

Suicide Ideation: A Chance To Make A Life Change

Charlie Sheen, You Manic Asshole

Explosive Children, Bipolar Children on Oprah

BigB

Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking: HBO Documentary

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