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B.L. is 25 years old, and has lived a life characterized by very high anxiety, frequent meltdowns—often with aggression, and highly oppositional behavior. He has been irritable, impatient and demanding, refusing to comply with rules and insubordinate of authority. He has always been very egocentric and seemed incapable of considering the needs of others. He…
Every day we receive numerous emails from parents who have read our book or who have come to our site for information. Sadly, and all too frequently, their questions and comments are interlaced with some mention of the guilt or self-blame they feel about their children’s behaviors and illness. Doctors, family members– in addition to…
It’s hard to believe that just about a year ago this site went live on the World Wide Web. We want to thank all of you who’ve visited and provided important feedback. Your responses to the July newsletter on night-terrors, in particular, indicated that many children are suffering from these parasomnias and helped us assemble…
The past few months have gone by in a whirlwind as we’ve sought to bring the subject of early-onset bipolar disorder to the public’s attention through all the publicity for The Bipolar Child. In May,The Bipolar Child received a NAMI Ken Award which are given annually to “outstanding books which have substantially contributed to the…
Mood Stabilizers While it seemed as if copies of The Bipolar Child were never going to arrive in bookstores in January, arrive they did, and we are grateful to all of you who waited patiently and who wrote us your very moving reviews. The book has had seven printings and we’ve been busy doing quite…
The year is fast drawing to a close and a new century is almost upon us. As the 1990s were declared the decade of the brain, we hope the first few years of the new millennium see increased understanding of and research into early-onset bipolar disorder. As you read this newsletter, our new book,The Bipolar…
Thank you for visiting our web site and for subscribing to our newsletter. We thought an E-mail newsletter would be a good forum in which to keep parents, educators, and mental health professionals abreast of the newest findings in the fields of psychopharmacology, genetics and neurobiology as they relate to early-onset bipolar disorder. We also…