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Far Away Eyes

Friday, January 29, 2010

Well, I guess I should have seen it coming but Rye fell apart yesterday morning after coming home sick from school with a bad cold.  Mania revisit.  Without going into all of the details, it was not good.
Once you’ve seen the far away eyes of mania, you never forget it.  It’s haunting.
Despite my saying previously [...]

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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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Abilify, Thoughts of Suicide, Children’s Struggle To Communicate

Friday, January 22, 2010

A few nights ago Don, Rye and I were watching American Idol.  An ad came on for Abilify.  A few seconds into the ad Rye looks at us and says, “What is that medicine they are advertising?”
“Abilify,” I say “that’s the medicine you took to stop hearing things after the Adderall reaction.”
“Oh,” Rye says.  “That’s [...]

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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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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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Oh, The Adderall

Thursday, November 12, 2009

How quickly we forget.
As I have been posting and reading over the past few days it has occurred to me, I think we have all missed a key piece in our journey here.
Rye was taking Adderall XR for a brief time before he had the real strange behaviors appear – including seizure-like activity, extreme hyperactivity [...]

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The Role of Hormones

Monday, November 9, 2009

So, I have been really scouring the internet lately looking around at various health sites and it occurred to me…I wonder if Rye’s behavior that landed us in the psychiatrist’s office could be the result of hormone imbalances.
I know when researching I found that hypothyroidism can cause psychosis that is often mistaken as having a [...]

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