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Title: The Bipolar Child: The Definitive and Reassuring Guide to Childhood's Most Misunderstood Disorder -- Third Edition
ISBN: 0767928601
Author:
Demitri Md Papolos
Janice Papolos
Publicate Date: 2007-10-02
Publish: 2007-10-02
List Price: $15.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Paperback
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1: The Bipolar Child
This book is a must for understanding why your bipolar child does some of the things they do. We are raising our Grand daughter who is bipolar and it has given me far more information than anything I had read. It gets easier to be more patient and understanding when you realize that the child is not just being defiant and hard to get along with.
Some parts get a little technical, but if you are dealing with a child with this illness you will certainly get your money's worth.
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2: Comprehensive reference for frustrated parents
Overall, this is a very good book. It contains a good mixture of medical information, real life examples, research findings, and links to resources and support groups. (The later may be especially useful to you.) Unfortunately, the book tries to address too diverse an audience simultaneously. Most of it is for parents, but one chapter is way too technical. At times, it seems like the authors are trying to write to the medical community of therapists and physicans at their level as well as to parents without that level of knowledge. Best advice -- skip over the excruciatingly technical details and keep going. I almost put the book down midway through, but was glad I kept on reading because it picked back up.
Having raised a bipolar child, I can attest to the many frustrations mentioned in the book -- like when consequences have no effect on behavior. Praise or punish, it matters not. Now, what do you do? It took nearly 10 years for us to discover the underlying cause of our child's symptoms and we were reluctant to believe it at first. But, the bipolar pieces fit together and pursuing treatment along those lines ultimately made a major difference. When we ran into this quagmire (diagnosed in 1992), there were not nearly so many support groups or treatment options available. Having this book 16 years ago would have been a major blessing. Our experience parallels much of what is mentioned in the book. For example, medication has remained a trial and error adjustment process -- what works for one person does not for another and new drugs replace older ones.
If you are wondering whether you child's behavior is outside of normal, or you know it is and are wondering why, reading this book will help you determine if it might be caused by bipolar disorder. The authors know what they are talking about.
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3: Ought to be illegal.
I wonder why nobody goes to prison over this. Drugging children should be against the law. For whatever reason a child misbehaves, using drugs in any case should be met with the prescriber being imprisoned. My life was literally, not practically, not virtually, but literally ruined by being drugged as a child -- I would had rather been a [...] rape victim, at least then I would have healed. Yet, nobody gets stopped and nobody gets punished. The practice continues, rationalized by horrible people doing horrible things as necessary because it's what they do and what keeps them employed.
No brain needs drugs, period. None of these drugs are healthy to be on and in fact all of anti psychotics and mood stabilizers work by damaging and disabling normal, healthy parts of the brain.
Better reading would be "Blaming the brain", By Elliot Valenstein, Ph.d psychologist and neuroscientist and "Mad In America" By Robert Whitaker, award winning science and medical writer who was a finalist for the 1998 pulitzer prize (Among many other things, including his book being awarded one of Discover magazines best science books of 2002 and an American Library Association best book selection as well.)... And why don't we compare even just these two of many authors of truth to say, Joseph Biederman?
Which of the three do you think is most intelligent, scientific and telling the truth. The accredited scientists, or the man being paid millions of dollars by Big Pharma to try and culturally justify through a abuse of science and medicine the action of drugging disruptive children.
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MindFreedom Neuroleptic Brain damage
And Robert Whitaker Neuroleptics Natural News
"1 of 8 people found the following review helpful: "
It's amazing, there are actually people out there who care so little for children - even their own! - that when the truth is spoken, they'd rather just drug the child and stick their head in the sand. It's most important that your own life isn't disrupted or that you don't have to work with your child, right?
You hide behind psychiatry to make it look like you're not bad parents who are abusing your children, but guess what... Psychiatry is easy to shoot holes through. You're hiding behind something that accredited scientists and medical specialties only considered legitimate because of a biochemical imbalance hypothesis that has long been destroyed and only kept alive in the media (thus the culture) via the money and power of the drug companies.
Hiding behind psychiatry to pretend you're not a bad parent is no better than hiding behind a street drug dealer. You're using powerful, life destroying drugs to sweep away the problems you have at home so you can get back to a life that doesn't involve actually having to deal with people you don't truly appreciate.
I wonder how many of you people even googled those keywords and I wonder how many of you are too busy watching American Idol while your child suffers EPS to even care.
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4: Bi-polar
I was very happy to find this book during the time that I needed it most. It was definitely a great source of information.
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5: Written by THE expert and helpful, understandable
This book is reassuring and understandable, not written in professional language that one has to translate. I definitely recommend it.
The Bipolar Child: The Definitive and Reassuring Guide to Childhood's Most Misunderstood Disorder -- Third Edition
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