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Mother of a Bipolar Child here
Jun 16 2009, 10:06 PM EDT
FOX should be ashamed. Truly. I hope every Bipolar Child advocacy group in the U.S. comes after the network for it's stereotypical and inaccurate portrayal of the disorder. I used to love FOX and was looking forward to this show. Now I am disappointed and angry.
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1. RE: Mother of a Bipolar Child here
Jun 17 2009, 4:55 PM EDT
But they were right, you cannot diagnose a child as bipolar! I know from experience with my son. So the doctors say he just has a mood disorder.
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2. RE: Mother of a Bipolar Child here
Jun 19 2009, 10:15 PM EDT
Look, I have bipolar and so does my son. You are taking things way too personally here. It's a T.V. Show. Everyone that has bipolar does not act the same. I really enjoy the show! :)
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3. RE: Mother of a Bipolar Child here
Jun 20 2009, 6:07 PM EDT
I have bi-polar disorder and anger management, it's TV calm down, it's no big deal.
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4. RE: Mother of a Bipolar Child here
Jul 3 2009, 1:22 PM EDT
Bi-Polarity can be very different in the way it manifests in different people. With children, there is a concern that a too-rapid diagnosis may overlook other potential difficulties, much the same as the ADHD concerns. My eldest son, now an adult, had a difficulty that was diagnosed, variously as ADHD, Bi-Polarity, "mood disorder" (which is pretty inclusive), and as having anger and authority issues. I strongly resisted both the "medicate to determine disorder" tactic, and the too-early diagnostic profiling. As it turned out, eight months later, my son was conclusively diagnosed as having a partial complex seizure disorder. It manifests similarly to juvenal bi-polarity, ADHD, or anger (or mood) issues. Because it most often occured at school, the thought that it might be difficulty with authority (or an oppositional- defiance disorder) were not unreasonable ... but they were incorrect. In your son's case, they may be entirely correct; I'm unfamiliar with you, your son and the case ... but this is not always the case, and care does need to be exercised. Thanks to correct doagnosis, my son is now an adult, medication free (having outgrown the PSD, not uncommonly), and graduated with honors. I believe the message of this show was to advocate greater care be taken in making any (and particularly juvenal) diagnosis. Can anyone argue for the greatest care being taken in diagnosing our children?
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5. RE: Mother of a Bipolar Child here
Oct 4 2009, 11:04 AM EDT
Um, there are so many ways that bipolar disorders present; I am sorry that they didn't portray your son's exact case. I have worked with many people quite similar to the character on the episode and perhaps you should invest your energy in explaining your son's case; bipolar 1, bipolar 2, Cyclothymic disorder, mixed bipolar, rapid cycling bipolar or many others- presented itself so that more people can become educated on all of the various forms of this awful disease. My father and brother are paranoid schizophrenics and neither have ever shown a side of passive remorse as the character of Dr. Gallagher’s sister demonstrates but I am just happy that a network gave her such human qualities. When I watch my brother in an episode, I find nothing human about it, it is horrible and I would hate for a medium such as TV to further feed society’s fears of mental illness. Doors have now been opened for people like us to be able to write in and provide various info that could be used in future episodes. I am trying to stay passive here as I just spent 30 min. trying to find the closing dialog, something about losing a part of one's self in order to ever really feel whole, as I am trying to deal with the fact that I have to have my brother hospitalized again and the show's portrayal of the fear and the sorrow associated with caring for a loved one that is ill from the perspective of someone working in the mental health profession was dead on. There was nothing "stereotypical" about the young boy's case aside from the show’s emphasis that parents with misguided anger and fears could often hinder rather than help the progress of their children by remaining trapped in their own ignorance; in that Fox should fear no attacks from the advocacy groups of say every other form of bipolar illness, except for yours. Peri Craig, your made me cry happy tears I am so happy for you, what you must have felt inside when his diagnosis was corrected.
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