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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Shades Of Stability

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

So, it dawned on me yesterday when re-reading my post that perhaps I should elaborate on what I mean when I say that Rye is stable.
After all, what is ’stability’?
I’ll be honest,  I don’t know.  I mean, what is stability to others?  I don’t know.  We are learning as we go over here and all [...]

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The Calm

Friday, March 12, 2010

When underwater, the world above is muffled.  The sounds are hardly detectable.  The sight is blurred.  And the weight of the water pushes on the body like a gentle, loving embrace.
Rye is out of school now until the school can come with a better plan for him.  Being a victim to physical assault and gross [...]

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Bipolar Child Or Highly Sensitive Child?

Friday, February 19, 2010

I ask myself this question often with regard to Rye.  Is he really bipolar or is he just highly sensitive?  Granted, he has had periods of mania and psychosis which by textbook definition make him bipolar.  However, every time he has had true mania or psychosis it has been initially induced by psychiatric medications.  Specifically [...]

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…’should’ continued…

Thursday, February 18, 2010

so, as to the don’t ’should’ story…
What Red meant in this statement is that it is not good for one to look at the world through a lens of ’shoulds’ because you ruin what is by comparing it to what you feel, for whatever reason, should be.
In other words,  by ’shouding’ all over everything,  not [...]

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The Fear And The Confusion

Thursday, January 28, 2010

One of the things we deal with on a nearly daily basis is Rye’s fear and confusion.
Despite the fact that he is very social, outgoing and somewhat daring, Rye has a lot of fears.  Many of them are common for children his age and many of them are exacerbated by the fact that he naturally [...]

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Learning Disabilities And Emotional Lability

Monday, January 18, 2010

So, AA and Sherry’s comments got me thinking about learning disabilities which then got me thinking about their effect on emotional regulation.  Rye is quite learning disabled.  We have not had him testing recently but we know from previous testing that he has significant dyselxia, short term memory problems as well as processing disorders (auditory [...]

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