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My Bipolar Life/Guest Posts

Monday, March 8, 2010

In an effort for me and readers of this site to better understand bipolar disorder I have put forth a request for adults with bipolar disorder to write guest posts for this site.   I encourage guest posters to use a pseudonym unless they choose otherwise.   I ask posters to address the following issues:  at what [...]

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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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Child Psychiatry: A Real Science?

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

The whole subject of psychiatry and child psychiatry in particular has been heavily weighing on me lately.
I mean, do these doctors know what they are doing?  I know they try but so many symptoms in children and even teens can be misread, misunderstood, misdiagnosed and overpathologized.  Much more so than with adults.  I know every [...]

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The New School

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Well, the transfer was approved and Rye starts at the new school Monday.

He was worried he would get bored homeschooling so, here we go.  We’ll try this school on for size and see how it fits.
Actually to me it’s a bit of a bummer that the transfer went through so fast as we were hoping [...]

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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 [...]

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Chinese Medicine and Bipolar Disorder

Monday, December 21, 2009

The more I think about Rye and watch him and how he relates to emotion I wonder, is bipolar disorder only a brain disorder or is it an extreme body system imbalance?  I mean, sometimes he just seems so off center – like the scale has completely tipped and his body is revolting or stagnated [...]

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Medicaid Kids On More Antipsychotics: Better Treatment?

Monday, December 14, 2009

Well darn, I was trying not to post on this because I know the blogosphere has been all buzzed up with this article the past week but it’s hard to let it go, you know?
In case you have not seen it already, the article in question is from the New York Times on December 11, [...]

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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 [...]

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The Bipolar Child: Mostly In America?

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Many people say yes.
And it’s an interesting thought to me.
From what I have read, it is not to say that other countries do not have bipolar children.  Obviously, they do.  And, it is not to say that the symptoms listed as DSM-IV criteria for Pediatric Bipolar Disorder do not occur in children around the world.  [...]

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CABF’s Response to Frontline’s The Medicated Child

Monday, November 30, 2009

Here it is:

http://www.bpkids.org/site/PageServer/PageServer?pagename=fd_pr_jan08
CABF, I think you do some good work but I’m concerned about your response.
You state:
Jacob’s family and doctors stand by his diagnosis of bipolar disorder 14 years after the initial diagnosis and his parents feel he is doing well. While Jacob experiences an unfortunate side of effect of his medication, he is alive, living [...]

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