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 [...]
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Hi. My name is Meg and I am raising a child diagnosed with Early Onset Bipolar Disorder. This blog is my story.Pages
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- He Made It!
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- In The Absence
- Crazy Heart: This Ain't No Place For The Weary Kind
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- Children Underground: The Documentary
- Therapy: Love Yourself, Parent Your Self
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- The Long Way Home
- The Depakote Is Starting To Work
- Mark Twain & His Daughter Susy
- America: The Story Of Us ~ The History Channel
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- It's Friday!
- Meg A. Smith: Runaway Hunter
- Homeschooling Manic Bipolar
- Chicago Love, Bumper Style
- A Case Of The Mondays
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- Waves Of Honeysuckle
- Mania vs Hypomania
- The Beauty Is In The Story
- Mother's Day In Asheville
- Uncomfortably Numb: The Documentary of Antidepressant Withdrawal
- Garden Love
- Can Chiropractic Adjustments Cure Bipolar Disorder?
- Homeschool: The How And What
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- Aunt Sue & A Boy Named Sue
- April 2010 (25)
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- Live Your Truth
- The Damn Ham
- The Boys Of Baraka
- Homeschooling Bipolar
- The Runaways: The Movie
- Sunday Review
- Momo Ain't Takin' No...
- Stan
- Onward And Upward
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- My Son [or Daughter] Is Not Bipolar
- Drugging Kids & Bristol Palin
- Psychiatric Medications And Children
- Sunday Review
- So Long Klonopin
- Back At The Homestead
- Next To Normal
- A Behanding In Spokane
- Happy Birthday To Me
- Oh, The Wisteria
- People With Perfect Children Are Perfect Parents
- Forward Motion
- Happy Easter!
- Good Friday
- Happy 40th Birthday Cerise!!!
- March 2010 (30)
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- Therapeutic Parenting Use In Bipolar & RAD
- Goodbye, Oh Lord Of the Flies
- Sunday Review, A Day Late
- Perception
- My Flesh!
- Bipolar, Seizures, Bipolar, Seizures
- All Jacked Up On Coffee And Donuts
- The IEP Meeting
- Cross My Heart
- Hello Spring!
- Depression And Bipolar Support [DBSA] Meeting
- Understanding
- The World Is A Classroom
- Freedom
- Manic Mice Benefit From Lithium
- Sunday Review
- Women, Know Your Limits
- The Calm
- A Reassuring Lie
- Get Up, Stand Up: Stand Up For Your Rights
- Frog Chorus
- My Bipolar Life/Ilse
- My Bipolar Life/Guest Posts
- Changing Times
- It's Saturday
- Pop, Lock, And Drop It
- Teachers Behaving Badly
- Can You Outgrow Bipolar Disorder?
- FUssy
- NIMH Studies Seeking Participants
- February 2010 (24)
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- Sunday Review
- Put Your Big Girl Panties On
- lower case
- The Rise Of Generation T
- Antidepressant [SSRI] Stories And Dangers
- Massage, Anxiety And Mood
- Clotus: A Celebration Of Shortness
- Bipolar Child Or Highly Sensitive Child?
- ...'should' continued...
- Don't 'Should' All Over Everything
- Mood Swings or Manipulation?
- Just Call Me Rick Jones
- February 14, 2010
- The Alternative School
- The Valentine's Dance
- Child Psychiatry: A Real Science?
- A New Day
- Well...
- Where The Wild Things Are
- The Psychiatrist Visit
- For The Love Of Diners
- Bipolar Disorder Or Epileptic Seizures
- Meant To Be Together
- It's Alright
- January 2010 (27)
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- What Just Happened? Part II
- Far Away Eyes
- The Fear And The Confusion
- My Lobotomy
- The Laundromat
- It's Something Everywhere
- Lyme Disease, Psychosis, Neuropsychiatric Symptoms
- Loving The Break
- Abilify, Thoughts of Suicide, Children's Struggle To Communicate
- IEP Meeting & Clampdown
- Smokin A Pall Mall, Drinkin A Colt 45
- The Nightmares Are Gone
- Learning Disabilities And Emotional Lability
- The Zen Of Downhill Skiing
- Nighthawks
- Not Quite Ready
- The Bullfighter
- Youth Mental Illness: More Now Than During The Great Depression?
- All That Glitters Is Not Gold
- This Emotional Life
- The New School
- Psychiatric Hospitals: Change Is Needed
- A Good Day
- What Just Happened?
- Anxiety, Epsom Salts & Benadryl
- Reading And More Reading
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- 2009
- December 2009 (16)
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- 2009: A Year Of Learning
- Home Again, Home Again
- Merry Christmas, May Peace Be With you
- Chinese Medicine and Bipolar Disorder
- This Week In Review
- Latisse or Lashisse: You Decide
- I Love You Millions
- Here Comes Santa Claus
- Medicaid Kids On More Antipsychotics: Better Treatment?
- Happy Anniversary, Don!
- Minds On The Edge: Facing Mental Illness
- Psychiatric Medicines We've Tried
- Nightmares
- I'm Pooped And I Don't Want To Play Nice
- The Bipolar Child: Mostly In America?
- The Importance of Sleep
- November 2009 (25)
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- CABF's Response to Frontline's The Medicated Child
- Teaching Disabilities
- Thanksgiving
- Frontline: Medicating Kids
- Catch Up
- The Child Beneath The Medicine
- Up by Pixar
- Med Withdrawal
- A Chuckle A Day
- Au Naturale
- Cinda, Linea and Bipolar
- Rye's Shangri-La
- Happy Birthday Gam!
- Oh, The Adderall
- Thank You Veterans
- The Science Of It All
- The Role of Hormones
- Sunday, Sunday
- Soulful Sepulcher
- The Great Debate
- The Big Sleep
- Welcome Home
- Frontline: The Medicated Child
- Into The Wild
- The Day After
- October 2009 (16)
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- Happy Halloween
- Bipolar Support Blogspot
- The Walrus And The Carpenter
- Starry, Starry Night
- Today's Tom Sawyer
- Right Here In River City
- More Energy, Please
- Mellow Melodies
- An Unquiet Mind
- The Trap
- The Report Card
- Goodnight Moon, Goodnight Seroquel
- Up, Up and Away
- The Up Side
- The Visual
- And So It Begins...
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Child in blog: 12 years old Diagnosis: Bipolar Disorder, ADHD, Dyslexia, Auditory Processing Disorder Medications: Depakote 1250mg, Seroquel 25mg as needed, Children's Benadryl as needed, Supplements: Omega-3 Wild Salmon Oil 1000mg, Multi-Vitamin, Epsom Salt BathsCategories
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