Parenting bipolar children and teens is tough. It requires a lot of patience, flexibility, creativity, forgiveness, the ability to forget, the capacity to always be teaching, the willingness to always be learning, sensitivity, stamina, openness, firmness, gentleness, empathy, physical strength, mental strength, emotional strength, and the capacity to provide an outpouring of unconditional love beyond [...]
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Hi. My name is Meg and I am raising a teen diagnosed with Early Onset Bipolar Disorder. This blog is my story.Pages
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- Spring Is Coming
- ADHD: To Medicate Or Not To Medicate
- Saddleback Ranch: Steamboat Springs, Colorado
- My Bipolar Life/HB
- Adaptive Skiing For Physical and Cognitive Disabilities
- Disheartened
- I've Fallen And I Can't Get Up
- Floor It, Smarge
- Pimpin' In The Escalade
- Please Read And Help
- Patience Is A Virtue
- Suicide Ideation: A Chance To Make A Life Change
- The Lost Weekend, That's Ridic
- Two For Two
- Charlie Sheen, You Manic Asshole
- I'm Going To Run Away
- Aunt T. Murray. Mayfield. Paducah. Me.
- PostSecret Tour 2011: Today - Murray, Kentucky
- February 2011 (12)
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- Sunday Review
- Deep Brain Stimulation, Brain Pacemakers To Ease Psychiatric Illness
- This One Goes Out To You, Judy
- Homeschool Road Trip
- Explosive Children, Bipolar Children on Oprah
- How To Make Your Pool Perfect. The Hard Way.
- The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
- Valentine's Day
- Miracles Do Happen
- Ahh, Another Disgusting Low Carb Dinner
- Slowing To A Stop
- My Guest Post/Interview at Rage Against The Washing Machine
- January 2011 (12)
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- 2010
- December 2010 (8)
- November 2010 (16)
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- Just A Happy Little Moron
- Thanksgiving Weekend
- Giving Thanks
- Stubbornicus
- Strong Willed Child
- The Devil And Daniel Johnston: The Documentary
- The Dog Show
- Tora! Tora! Tora!
- Ethereal
- 7th Grade: The Class Schedule
- The Missing Man
- Sometimes You Don't
- Sometimes You Feel Like A Nut
- Be Disruptive, Non-Linear, and Inquisitive
- Pottery Love
- Sometimes I Wonder
- October 2010 (15)
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- Happy Halloween
- Mystery Science Theater 3000
- Homeschool: Reunited And It Feels So Good
- Talenti Gelato: Mediterranean Mint
- Waiting For Superman: The Documentary
- How The Outdated Public Education Model Creates A Rise In ADHD Diagnoses And Lowers Creative Thinking
- Brain Zaps
- Why On God's Green Earth
- Dr. Charles Raison
- One Year Anniversary: Questions & Answers
- Running With Scissors: Augusten Burroughs
- Depth Of Character
- Calle`
- A Change Of Scenery
- Like A G6
- September 2010 (15)
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- The Stress Effect
- Absence Note To School
- Happenings...
- Happy Friday
- Baby, Understand Me Now
- Oh Yes, We Missed It
- It's Friday
- Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP) For Bipolar Disorder
- Seeing Isn't Believing
- Sunday Review
- Happy Friday
- Kurt Cobain: About A Son - The Documentary
- Where For Art Thou?
- Uno, Dos, Tres, Cuatro, Cinco, Cinco, Seis
- My Bipolar Life/Kaley
- August 2010 (16)
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- Shades Of Stability
- Raising The Bar
- Hail St John's
- Back To School
- Teach Me How To Dougie. On The Line.
- Happy Friday
- The Horse Boy: A Documentary Of Autism, Healing & Acceptance
- Follow Your Heart Sunday
- Too Much Depakote
- Miss Percy P
- Some Sensory Issues Can be Outgrown
- Sunday Review, Embarrassingly Late
- The Hours In Between
- The Benefits Of Massage For Bipolar Children, Teens and Adults
- Finding Frivolous Me
- Off Center
- July 2010 (13)
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- Bon Voyage
- Payback Day With Rick Jones
- As 12 Years Old Draws To A Close
- Summer Camp: The Review
- He Made It!
- Criminalizing Your Child: Does It Scare Them Straight?
- In The Absence
- Crazy Heart: This Ain't No Place For The Weary Kind
- Sunday Review
- Children Underground: The Documentary
- Therapy: Love Yourself, Parent Your Self
- Middle School Hair: A Coiffure To Remember
- Eminem: Love The Way You Lie
- June 2010 (13)
- May 2010 (21)
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- The Long Way Home
- The Depakote Is Starting To Work
- Mark Twain & His Daughter Susy
- America: The Story Of Us ~ The History Channel
- A Good Weekend
- It's Friday!
- Meg A. Smith: Runaway Hunter
- Homeschooling Manic Bipolar
- Chicago Love, Bumper Style
- A Case Of The Mondays
- Baby Steps
- Waves Of Honeysuckle
- Mania vs Hypomania
- The Beauty Is In The Story
- Mother's Day In Asheville
- Uncomfortably Numb: The Documentary of Antidepressant Withdrawal
- Garden Love
- Can Chiropractic Adjustments Cure Bipolar Disorder?
- Homeschool: The How And What
- Sunday Review On A Monday
- Aunt Sue & A Boy Named Sue
- April 2010 (24)
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- Live Your Truth
- The Damn Ham
- The Boys Of Baraka
- Homeschooling Bipolar
- The Runaways: The Movie
- Sunday Review
- Momo Ain't Takin' No...
- Stan
- Onward And Upward
- Comments
- Drugging Kids & Bristol Palin
- Psychiatric Medications And Children
- Sunday Review
- So Long Klonopin
- Back At The Homestead
- Next To Normal
- A Behanding In Spokane
- Happy Birthday To Me
- Oh, The Wisteria
- People With Perfect Children Are Perfect Parents
- Forward Motion
- Happy Easter!
- Good Friday
- Happy 40th Birthday Cerise!!!
- March 2010 (30)
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- Therapeutic Parenting Use In Bipolar & RAD
- Goodbye, Oh Lord Of the Flies
- Sunday Review, A Day Late
- Perception
- My Flesh!
- Bipolar, Seizures, Bipolar, Seizures
- All Jacked Up On Coffee And Donuts
- The IEP Meeting
- Cross My Heart
- Hello Spring!
- Depression And Bipolar Support [DBSA] Meeting
- Understanding
- The World Is A Classroom
- Freedom
- Manic Mice Benefit From Lithium
- Sunday Review
- Women, Know Your Limits
- The Calm
- A Reassuring Lie
- Get Up, Stand Up: Stand Up For Your Rights
- Frog Chorus
- My Bipolar Life/Ilse
- My Bipolar Life/Guest Posts
- Changing Times
- It's Saturday
- Pop, Lock, And Drop It
- Teachers Behaving Badly
- Can You Outgrow Bipolar Disorder?
- FUssy
- NIMH Studies Seeking Participants
- February 2010 (24)
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- Sunday Review
- Put Your Big Girl Panties On
- lower case
- The Rise Of Generation T
- Antidepressant [SSRI] Stories And Dangers
- Massage, Anxiety And Mood
- Clotus: A Celebration Of Shortness
- Bipolar Child Or Highly Sensitive Child?
- ...'should' continued...
- Don't 'Should' All Over Everything
- Mood Swings or Manipulation?
- Just Call Me Rick Jones
- February 14, 2010
- The Alternative School
- The Valentine's Dance
- Child Psychiatry: A Real Science?
- A New Day
- Well...
- Where The Wild Things Are
- The Psychiatrist Visit
- For The Love Of Diners
- Bipolar Disorder Or Epileptic Seizures
- Meant To Be Together
- It's Alright
- January 2010 (27)
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- What Just Happened? Part II
- Far Away Eyes
- The Fear And The Confusion
- My Lobotomy
- The Laundromat
- It's Something Everywhere
- Lyme Disease, Psychosis, Neuropsychiatric Symptoms
- Loving The Break
- Abilify, Thoughts of Suicide, Children's Struggle To Communicate
- IEP Meeting & Clampdown
- Smokin A Pall Mall, Drinkin A Colt 45
- The Nightmares Are Gone
- Learning Disabilities And Emotional Lability
- The Zen Of Downhill Skiing
- Nighthawks
- Not Quite Ready
- The Bullfighter
- Youth Mental Illness: More Now Than During The Great Depression?
- All That Glitters Is Not Gold
- This Emotional Life
- The New School
- Psychiatric Hospitals: Change Is Needed
- A Good Day
- What Just Happened?
- Anxiety, Epsom Salts & Benadryl
- Reading And More Reading
- 2010
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- 2009
- December 2009 (16)
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- 2009: A Year Of Learning
- Home Again, Home Again
- Merry Christmas, May Peace Be With you
- Chinese Medicine and Bipolar Disorder
- This Week In Review
- Latisse or Lashisse: You Decide
- I Love You Millions
- Here Comes Santa Claus
- Medicaid Kids On More Antipsychotics: Better Treatment?
- Happy Anniversary, Don!
- Minds On The Edge: Facing Mental Illness
- Psychiatric Medicines We've Tried
- Nightmares
- I'm Pooped And I Don't Want To Play Nice
- The Bipolar Child: Mostly In America?
- The Importance of Sleep
- November 2009 (25)
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- CABF's Response to Frontline's The Medicated Child
- Teaching Disabilities
- Thanksgiving
- Frontline: Medicating Kids
- Catch Up
- The Child Beneath The Medicine
- Up by Pixar
- Med Withdrawal
- A Chuckle A Day
- Au Naturale
- Cinda, Linea and Bipolar
- Rye's Shangri-La
- Happy Birthday Gam!
- Oh, The Adderall
- Thank You Veterans
- The Science Of It All
- The Role of Hormones
- Sunday, Sunday
- Soulful Sepulcher
- The Great Debate
- The Big Sleep
- Welcome Home
- Frontline: The Medicated Child
- Into The Wild
- The Day After
- October 2009 (16)
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- Happy Halloween
- Bipolar Support Blogspot
- The Walrus And The Carpenter
- Starry, Starry Night
- Today's Tom Sawyer
- Right Here In River City
- More Energy, Please
- Mellow Melodies
- An Unquiet Mind
- The Trap
- The Report Card
- Goodnight Moon, Goodnight Seroquel
- Up, Up and Away
- The Up Side
- The Visual
- And So It Begins...
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Child in blog: 14 years old Diagnosis: Bipolar Disorder, ADHD, Dyslexia, Auditory Processing Disorder Medications: Depakote, Seroquel, Benadryl as needed Supplements: Multi-Vitamin, Epsom Salt BathsCategories
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- Bipolar Rages
- Can You Outgrow Bipolar Disorder?
- Charlie Sheen, You Manic Asshole
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