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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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Thanksgiving

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Well, I have to say we had a really nice Thanksgiving.  It was very low-key, easy and relaxing.  Gam came over and we all ate and talked and watched “Christmas Vacation” and “Shrek 2″.   And Rye did really well.  He was very overtired from his endless socializing the days prior so he actually took [...]

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