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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 [...]

Filed in General Bipolar, Life In General | Also tagged Abilify, advice, bipolar, 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 treatment, parenting, pediatric bipolar, psychiatric hospital, psychiatric medications, psychosis, seeking advice, teen bipolar | Comments (11)

Absence Note To School

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Dear Mismanaged and Underfunded Public Middle School,
Please excuse Rye’s absence from school yesterday. Due to the fact that you insist on mainstreaming bipolar children and refuse to acknowledge children with emotional disabilities as being worthy of any significant amount of additional assistance in the public school setting, Rye is now completely stressed by your school [...]

Filed in General Bipolar, Special Education | Also tagged antipsychotics, anxiety, bipolar, bipolar child, bipolar medication, bipolar teen, FAPE, Free Appropriate Public Education, hallucinations, iep, invisible disabilities, lack of funding for special eduation, lack of resource classes, lack of resource help, Learning Disabilities, mental health, middle school, pediatric bipolar, psychosis, public school, Special Education, teen bipolar, waiting for superman | Comments (3)

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

Criminalizing Your Child: Does It Scare Them Straight?

Thursday, July 15, 2010

If you have a bipolar teen and are a part of any kind of bipolar teen support group, you will hear stories of kids having some unsavory behavior. Not all kids, of course, but definitely some. It’s pretty much inevitable. I mean, after all, these kids live a little more on the [...]

Filed in Life In General | Also tagged bipolar child, bipolar teen, juvenile detention center, legal system, Mania, manic depressive teens, mental health, mental health treatment, pediatric bipolar, probation officer, scared straight, teen bipolar | Comments (6)

Psychiatric Hospitals: Change Is Needed

Friday, January 8, 2010

Stephany of Soulful Sepulchur is one of the first blog friends I made when I started blogging. She took a personal interest in my situation because she has a daughter that was diagnosed as Early Bipolar 10 years ago and her daughter was placed on a myriad of psychiatric drugs for years. Her daughter Lindsay [...]

Filed in Meds, psychiatry | Also tagged bipolar, bipolar medication, mental health, mental health care, mental health treatment, pediatric bipolar, psychiatric hospital, psychiatry, psychosis, schizophrenia, western state hospital | Comments (4)

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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