My son Brian is the adolescent featured in the Bloomberg piece.

He has been symptom-free from bipolar for over two years - without medication.

Is recovery from this ‘life-long’ illness possible?
Without medication?

You bet it is!

Duane Sherry, M.S., CRC
http://discoverandrecover.wordpress.com

As cyberspace continues to pile up What Is Bipolar 1 Disorder guidance, we’ll try to show them to you….

(1) It will necessarily _ever_ “break out.”
(2) That pharmacologic therapy is necessarily the best treatment. The best tx requires a far more complex view of the situation of individual patients.
(3) That, at this point, we have much more than conjecture about whether there is, or is not, a childhood form of bipolar disorder. Rather, at this point, it’s not about the science. It is about reframing the “phenomenology” of the illness in order to suggest tthat there is, indeed, a childhood form.

Let’ts “get rational here” and acknowledge what we know and what we don’t.

That may or may not be true. But the evidence, as it stands, has nothing to do with genes.

When a Mistake is made,SOCIETY PAYS!!…
When a Mistake is made a child suffers…
When a mistake is made,Parents are left with the ultimate pain of loosing a child……

When a mistake is made, their is a loss of Human Life…

“Justice”, Just a thought…..

TOUCHE’

Meryl,
Parents really dont care about your so called “STAR TREK THEORY” They just want the facts,something that Industry, and their “FOR HIRE PSYCHIATRISTS” clearly dont want them to know.

“CHEMICAL IMBALANCE THEORY” show me the science!!!

If you cant,Than, PLEASE, let me suggest that “SILENCE IS GOLDEN”.

Just because you have a gene for something, doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going to get it. Let’s use identical twins as an example. They share the same genes. If one twin has schizophrenia, the other only has a 50% chance of getting it.
There must be a social/viral/bacterial aspect to this.

Biederman of Harvard - who has been the point guy on expanding the bipolar dx - has COIS, consultancies, and speakerships with every relevant company (Harvard limits capital investments but not much else). That, in itself, does not prejudge the science. But it will be interesting for my students to compare (I haven’t done it yet) the results of studies that are independently funded on this issue and those that are not.

Also, it’s striking how cynical are the voices even within mainstream psychiatric pharamcology ont his question.

Harvard has put itself “out there.” We’ll see what the consequences are - first for our kids; second for them.

Eventually, every American child and adolescent will be diagnosed as BIPOLAR.

If there is an increase in suicide in “CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS” as Dr. Fassler professes,( DURING FDA MED GUIDE HEARING)then he and his fellow collegues are responsible for the harm and death these drugs have bestowed upon children and their families,and should be held accountable.

“Voluntary Manslaughter” and “Criminal Negligence” comes to mind.

You definitely know how to drive traffic ;)