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A Parent ’s BSD Challenge
Raising children is a rewarding journey with a most steep learning curve. Any new parent ’s notion that since they are older than their child means they are wiser soon learns that it is the child who teaches the parent many things. Think of the journey of a parent of a child who for no apparent reason engages in aggressive anti social behavior, angry unending tantrums, or a child who is ultra sensitive to all stimuli and overreacts to ordinary things in life, or a child who acts out in school seeking to always be the center of attention. This is the life of a parent whose child has possible BSD disorder. The word possi...
Source: Weird Cake: Myopic musings from a bipolar survivor - November 17, 2010 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: blogs

Healing Instead of Dealing With: Getting Back in the Driver ’s seat With Mental Illness
We get visitors who know very little about bipolar disorder and so why not educate and arm readers with some basic information? Bipolar disorder is a mental condition that affects both mood stability and cognitive functioning. The condition is characterized by extreme variations in mood from elation and high functioning to depression and withdrawal. Those extreme variations are cyclical in nature. Some doctors have named the condition bipolar spectrum disorder(BSD) because of the continuum of characteristics. There is a genetic predisposition to BSD, it tends to run in families. Research has uncovered certain genes that ...
Source: Weird Cake: Myopic musings from a bipolar survivor - November 4, 2010 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: blogs