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A few years back I wrote about how my son (who was 12 at the time) took Abilify as a stand alone medication for a few months and had suicidal thoughts while he was taking it. This was unusual for him as he is not a suicidal kid in general and when we [...]
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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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- Just A Happy Little Moron
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- Happy Halloween
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- Homeschool: Reunited And It Feels So Good
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- Waiting For Superman: The Documentary
- How The Outdated Public Education Model Creates A Rise In ADHD Diagnoses And Lowers Creative Thinking
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- Dr. Charles Raison
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- The Stress Effect
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- Happenings...
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- Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP) For Bipolar Disorder
- Seeing Isn't Believing
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- Shades Of Stability
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- Follow Your Heart Sunday
- Too Much Depakote
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- Some Sensory Issues Can be Outgrown
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- Finding Frivolous Me
- Off Center
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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
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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
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- The Beauty Is In The Story
- Mother's Day In Asheville
- Uncomfortably Numb: The Documentary of Antidepressant Withdrawal
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- Live Your Truth
- The Damn Ham
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- Homeschooling Bipolar
- The Runaways: The Movie
- Sunday Review
- Momo Ain't Takin' No...
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- Next To Normal
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- Oh, The Wisteria
- People With Perfect Children Are Perfect Parents
- Forward Motion
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- Good Friday
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- 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
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- The Calm
- A Reassuring Lie
- Get Up, Stand Up: Stand Up For Your Rights
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- 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
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- Smokin A Pall Mall, Drinkin A Colt 45
- The Nightmares Are Gone
- Learning Disabilities And Emotional Lability
- The Zen Of Downhill Skiing
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- 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
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- A Good Day
- What Just Happened?
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- Reading And More Reading
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- 2009: A Year Of Learning
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- This Week In Review
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- I Love You Millions
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- The Bipolar Child: Mostly In America?
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- November 2009 (25)
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- CABF's Response to Frontline's The Medicated Child
- Teaching Disabilities
- Thanksgiving
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- The Child Beneath The Medicine
- Up by Pixar
- Med Withdrawal
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- Thank You Veterans
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- October 2009 (16)
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- Happy Halloween
- Bipolar Support Blogspot
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- Today's Tom Sawyer
- Right Here In River City
- More Energy, Please
- Mellow Melodies
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- The Trap
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- 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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