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ADHD: To Medicate Or Not To Medicate

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Every teacher and tutor Rye has ever had will tell you very clearly, he has ADHD. I know it, we know, his pdoc knows it. It’s obvious. And has been since he was about 5 years old. He has a very short attention span when it comes to traditional learning and it takes a very [...]

Filed in ADHD, General Bipolar, Meds | Also tagged Adderall, ADHD, attention deficit, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, bipolar, bipolar child, bipolar medication, bipolar teen, depakote, homeschool, learning, Mania, pediatric bipolar, seroquel, teen bipolar | Comments (4)

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, psychiatric hospital, psychiatry, sensory integration disorder, teen bipolar, therapeutic schools, tourette's syndrome, visualization | Comments (6)

Slowing To A Stop

Friday, February 4, 2011

It’s oddly quiet in our house this afternoon.
Don is home from a business trip and had to fly overnight last night so he is now in bed sleeping as he didn’t get much sleep on the plane.
Rye and I did our math work this morning and then we didn’t make it much further than math [...]

Filed in General Bipolar, homeschool, sleep | Also tagged God, homeschooling, napping, seroquel, sleep | Comments (1)

Dr. Charles Raison

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

This morning I had a specific post in mind to write. I wanted to write about Serotonin Syndrome. Serotonin Syndrome is a medical syndrome in which the body becomes toxic from having too much serotonin in the body due to the use of serotonin altering medications. In preparation for the post, I was researching [...]

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The Stress Effect

Thursday, September 30, 2010

The Good News: After a few days at home, Rye is back to himself. Perky, animated, grounded. His usual bouncy self.
The Bad News: The cause of his mental distress was and is his school situation.
This will have to be addressed.
This is the direct result of our state pushing for and insisting on mainstreaming all kids [...]

Filed in General Bipolar, Learning Disabilities | Also tagged bipolar child, bipolar teen, dyslexia, iep, Learning Disabilities, mainstreaming, pediatric bipolar, processing disorder, public education law, public school, Special Education, teen bipolar | Comments Off

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, mental health law, middle school, pediatric bipolar, public school, Special Education, teen bipolar, waiting for superman | Comments (3)

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, psychiatric hospital, seroquel, teen bipolar, teen mental health | Comments (11)

Psychiatric Medications And Children

Monday, April 19, 2010

Some thoughts on psychiatric medications and children:
I’ve been reading a lot of articles lately of recent accounts of children dying from taking pharmaceutical psychiatric drugs. In one case the child’s body system shut down due to overdose, in another the child had a heart attack, and in another the child hung himself.
And all I can [...]

Filed in General Bipolar, Mania, Meds, seizures | Also tagged Adderall, ADHD, antipsychotics, bipolar child, bipolar medication, child psychiatry, lithium, Mania, mental health, mood stabilizers, pediatric bipolar, seizures | Comments (77)

Bipolar Child Or Highly Sensitive Child?

Friday, February 19, 2010

I ask myself this question often with regard to Rye. Is he really bipolar or is he just highly sensitive? Granted, he has had periods of mania and psychosis which by textbook definition make him bipolar. However, every time he has had true mania or psychosis it has been initially induced by psychiatric medications. Specifically [...]

Filed in General Bipolar, Mania, Meds, psychiatry | Also tagged antipsychotics, bipolar child, bipolar medication, child psychiatry, depression, emotional regulation, high sensitivity, Mania, mental health, parenting, pediatric bipolar, rages, stimulants, suicidal thoughts, violence | Comments (2)

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 [...]

Filed in General Bipolar, Meds, psychiatry | Also tagged Abilify, antipsychotics, benadryl, bipolar child, bipolar medication, child psychiatry, mental health, mental health treatment, pediatric bipolar, psychiatry, risperdal, seroquel | Comments (5)

Raising Bipolar

Tag Archives: psychosis

ADHD: To Medicate Or Not To Medicate

Disheartened

Explosive Children, Bipolar Children on Oprah

Slowing To A Stop

Dr. Charles Raison

The Stress Effect

Absence Note To School

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

Psychiatric Medications And Children

Bipolar Child Or Highly Sensitive Child?

Child Psychiatry: A Real Science?

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