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Bipolar Disorder Epidemic
DO>Hmm. Do you agree?
What Can I Expect From Treatment For Bipolar Disorder?
DO> Great article.
Beyond Disabilities
DO> Another good article, don’t you think?
Find Out All You Can About Child’s Bipolar Diagnosis
DO> Supporting a child? Read this.
NAMI Basics Program Provides Help To Families
DO> Good program.
Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder: Gene Link?
DO> Wow, this is VERY interesting.
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Morning David! First off let me tell how much I look forward to your email….everyday! You’re information is so helpful and even the lessons you send are sometimes so mind opening. My 16 year son was diagnosed one very despressing holiday season (last year 2007) I have one question that hopefully you can answer knowing only that you have experience with this. Will his bipolar get worse as he gets older? His medication is perfect right now. He see’s a psychologist weekly (and when necessary) and his psychiatrist every three months. We have a good support system at his high school. But from experience, have you know this disorder to get worse as the kids get older? Thank you again for all you valuable information. Gotta Love Ya David!!!!!
very useful article, as usual.
i would like more information on how to recognise and minimise episodes as a supporter
I want to thank you for the ongoing information, and I am glad you have the book Everything you wanted to Know about Bipolar…or
something like that. You said it might be useful to hand to schools, police…. Anyway, here is the scenario. My ex is furious with me for divorcing him. He is dragging it out hoping to force me into bankruptcy, thereby he could get all the assets. He of course is saying since I have been diagnosed as having bipolar I can not handle money (real story he lied about income, taxes… and gave me and the kids a tiny portion and I paid almost all the bills for the kids, sold all my jewelry and racked up the credit cards to not impact kids lives hoping for fair trial. That hasn’t happened. He says I am a golddigger and horrible mother (reverse is true) and since I have bipolar nothing i say is true. Judges believe him. A Nanny has waved arms around at school and called cops on me when I exercised my first right of refusal. Police took her word for everything (real story it is much cheaper for my ex to hire a lying nanny who is anxious to live in my house than to settle with me). Bottomline, I’m glad I had your booklet. I took it to the police supervisor today. I told him it is critical to write accurately about someone, wouldn’t he want me to do the same?
I handed him the booklet and told him I have been diagnosed and I am highfunctioning and hyperthymic. He may not rewrite the report but he will educate the officers about bipolar and how they need to treat people fairly. I am not sure about the outcome of the rest. We are 4 years into it. I want my kids. I did realize that due to my situation what is really critical is education about
bipolar and other mental illnesses and for those who do not have funds, or are cheated out of legal funds, they should have them.
What you are doing is very important, Dave. Thank you.
Diane
I find your website very helpful to me. As a tool to avoid spending and to aleviate stress in my marriage I have taken extreme measures to road block myself to the
seemingly uncontrollable behaviors during hypomaina-mania. After receiving a fraudulent telephone call from some bogus paydayloan company threating to come and arrest me the following day for nonpayment of a payday loan that I never took in March of 2007, and spending an
entire day going through every single bank statement, checking every deposit and transaction, and looking at the way I handle money, I decided it was best not to have a personal checking account. My husband and I have a joint account, and he is pretty particular about how it is handled. He has a funny way about him. So he does all the entries, and I am totally accountable for anything that comes out of that account. I am finding that anything you offer that might be helpful to him in
understanding my bipolar disorder cost money. He does not see my disorder as a major problem. “I always manage
to come out of it and than I am ok” He does not experience violent rages, I mainly sleep for very long periods of times (weeks) and then become very active and creative, and spend a lot of money, (not his). Then when I become depressed he assumes it because it’s about money and be pays my debts. I no longer have credit cards. I have an excellent credit report because I manage to pay things on time. But I end up mainly paying interes. so I never get very far as far as acutally getting out of debt. Thats all for now, Just wanted to mention every thing you have which is very good, costs money.