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Dr. Drew Show: Tics in Teen Girls Caused By Conversion Disorder?

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Did you see the Dr. Drew show yesterday?  It was one of the most disturbing things I have seen in a long time.  Don and I were flipping around channels and somehow landed on this show and we could not stop watching it once we started.  It was incredible.  The show was about 12 teen [...]

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Bipolar Rages

Monday, January 17, 2011

Rages are an extreme presentation of behavior that can be exhibited in unstable people with bipolar disorder.  Some say rages are brought on by depression, some say mania, and some say they are seizures.  Really, it doesn’t matter.   The fact is, nothing good comes from rages.
Rages are:  out of control, destructive, yelling, screaming, hitting, [...]

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Brain Zaps

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Well, crud.  The boy is having brain zaps.  And they are pretty bad today.
From what I’ve read this evening I think they must be coming from the Seroquel.  He does not take it every day but rather only when he needs it.   However, with the recent stress from school he has been taking it [...]

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Can Chiropractic Adjustments Cure Bipolar Disorder?

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

A few weeks back a mom emailed me regarding her daughter who had been diagnosed as a young girl with bipolar disorder.  Her daughter is now grown but through a series of emails she shared with me a bit of history about her daughter’s struggles when she was younger with school and moods and their [...]

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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 [...]

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Bipolar, Seizures, Bipolar, Seizures

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Which is it??  Or is it both??
This is where we are again.  Rye had an incident yesterday where out of nowhere he spent about 3 minutes blurting out expletives non-stop.   I mean non-stop.  It is so weird when he does that.  You can’t believe how fast he can rattle them off.  We were in the [...]

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The Psychiatrist Visit

Friday, February 5, 2010

Well, yesterday was the psychiatrist appointment.
It turned out to be a bit of a bust. I took Rye out of school early and we came home for lunch to transition.  Then as we were trying to get out the door to drive up there he completely fell apart and did not want to go.  He [...]

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Bipolar Disorder Or Epileptic Seizures

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Or both?
From what I understand, bipolar disorder and seizures often go hand in hand.  I wonder if this is the case with Rye.  It was suggested to me a while back that he may have Frontal Lobe Epilepsy.  And the more his ‘incidents’ occur the more I think it’s possible.
Sometimes it’s so weird to me [...]

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