Yeah, I think I'll have no trouble raising the required amount. I ought to set a new goal.
Can't remember if it's come up here before, but don't forget to hit up the co. you work for. Many will match to certain amount or give some sort of donation outright. That's where my biggest donation came from when I did a 24-hour Danceathon in November.
I don't know if it's an Electra complex, so much as she'd really like me to be a little more exciting. *sigh*
Did you raise her on soaps? Hee.
Daniel, I dreamt last night that I met you and Andi on the street and that you were taking a tandem bicycle cross-country and blogging about it.
What a fun dream!
Cash, good luck with continuing not-throttling your eldest.
Oh, god. What an awful story: [link]
Damn. That is sad.
A psychiatrist diagnosed Rebecca Riley with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and bipolar disorder when she was 2 years old.
Is it even possible to diagnose either at that age?
Is it even possible to diagnose either at that age?
Yeah, I found that suspicious too, but I don't know a lot about child psychiatry. I do know that some of the meds she was on are not approved for children.
That is awful, vw. I would be surprised if it were not an accident. A guy I was friends with in HS died when his mother mixed his meds. The laundry list of medication sounds a little sensationalist to me too, but I would defer to someone who knows more than, "I can't imagine what they would've found in my system last week when I had horrid cramps and some bug."
Oh, yeah. I'm not passing judgment without more information. It's really sad.
Apparently there is no lower age limit to a bipolar diagnosis in the DSM, but 2? That just doesn't seem right.
Plus, while I've known some deeply troubled kids with serious disorders, medicating for ADHD in toddlerhood seems to me to be a function of unprepared parents not having the coping skills to deal with their energetic kids.
eta: Daisy Jane, you make a good point about mistakes. God knows I overdosed myself on Chlorcidene D when I was in high school by doubling the dosage and halving the intervals in a fevered state. Complete with hallucenations, it was a bad trip.
I guess I'm just pinged by all the recent stories about kids in foster care, or with irresponsible parents who go to extreme measures to control them. It's a personal issue, which has nothing do with this story...but it just seems suspicious to me.
My niece has behavior inhibition disorder and it took until she was in 3rd grade to get a proper diagnosis. By the time she was 4 the doctor said she probably had ADHD or a related disorder, but because she was so little they couldn't pinpoint what was going on. *shrug* Very sad story though.
Can't remember if it's come up here before, but don't forget to hit up the co. you work for. Many will match to certain amount or give some sort of donation outright.
They don't match, but I am just about to make some fliers to post in the lunchroom and copy rooms.
They prescribed Depakote for a 4 year old? WTF? The state of child psychiatry scares the living fuck out of me.
The story itself is awful, too.
