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What Can I Do To Help?

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Over the years in raising Rye I have learned a thing or two about a thing or two.   Not through therapy, not through books, not through the advice of doctors,  just through hands-on day-to-day dealing with the issues, needs, and complexities of raising a child with bipolar disorder and seeing what works and what doesn’t.  [...]

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Finding Frivolous Me

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Where has this girl gone?
Bogged down in her child’s doctor visits, hospitals, therapists, school decisions, medical bills, sports decisions, medicine dispensing, oppressing heat and humidity.  Anticipating issues, thwarting problems, managing anxiety, dealing with people’s reactions, keeping to a schedule, managing the needs, the needs, the needs of an always needing dependent child.   Tired of [...]

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Therapeutic Parenting Use In Bipolar & RAD

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

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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