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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 [...]

Filed in General Bipolar | Also tagged ADHD, 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, psychiatry, psychosis, sensory integration disorder, teen bipolar, therapeutic schools, tourette's syndrome, visualization | Comments (6)

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, bipolar disorder, ECT, manic depression, mental health, mental hospitals, self medicating | Comments (3)

One Year Anniversary: Questions & Answers

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Photo by Rosie Hardy

One year ago today I wrote my first post for this blog. I remember thinking at the time that I wanted to try and post almost every day but wondered how I would possibly think of something to say or post every day. Oddly, it really has not been a problem. In [...]

Filed in General Bipolar, Life In General | Also tagged behavioral therapy, bipolar, bipolar medication, bipolar teen, child psychiatry, depressive disoder, manic depression, medication withdrawal, mental health, mental health treatment, natural bipolar remedy, natural healing, pediatric bipolar, psychiatric medication, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, rosie hardy photography, teen bipolar, therapy, unipolar | Comments (4)

The Psychiatric Hospital: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

Monday, June 14, 2010

Well, it’s been 2 weeks and we are now home from Rye’s inpatient hospitalization. What a ride this has all been. In fact, we got home yesterday and my head is still spinning and I’m not even sure I can write a decent post. But here goes…
What was good about the hospital?

It seems to have [...]

Filed in General Bipolar, Mania, Meds, psychiatry | Also tagged behavior plans, benadryl, chidren's inpatient psychiatric hospital, child bipolar, child mental health, depakote, Mania, mood stabilizers, overdose, overdose in hospital, padded rooms, pediatric bipolar, psychosis, seroquel, teen bipolar, teen mental health | Comments (11)

The Hospital

Monday, June 7, 2010

As it turns out, Rye could not follow the rules of the house so we took him to the hospital. We could not get the Depakote level high enough, fast enough to stay helpful once his body adjusted to it and we just could not keep him safe. From himself.
It’s kind of a weird thing, really.
I’m [...]

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Antidepressant [SSRI] Stories And Dangers

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Well, I had a post in mind for today but then I sat down to the computer to write and changed my mind. I received this comment from Shila on Goodnight Moon, Goodnight Seroquel and had to change my direction.
I’m fourteen, and after a recent suicide attempt overdose on Wellbutrin, I had to stay at [...]

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Lyme Disease, Psychosis, Neuropsychiatric Symptoms

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Sherry posted this in the comments section and I thought I’d post it here because it’s an important story to me.
She wrote:
Here is a cause of psychotic behavior in teens that I was not aware of–Lyme Disease!
I am a member of an online book club that has long since evolved into more of a friends [...]

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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 law, mental health treatment, pediatric bipolar, 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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Psychiatric Medicines We’ve Tried

Thursday, December 10, 2009

So, as of now, Rye is not on any meds. This is not to say, however, that we have never tried meds. We have tried many and have not had good results so far. In fact, for us they seem to have caused more problems that we had originally sought treatment for and this in [...]

Filed in ADHD, Adderall, General Bipolar, Mania, Meds, psychiatry | Also tagged Adderall, ADHD, adhd medicines, antipsychotics, bipolar, bipolar child, bipolar medication, child psychiatry, Mania, medication, mood stabilizers, psychiatry, psychosis | Comments (4)