The Bipolar Child: The Definitive and Reassuring Guide to Childhood's Most Misunderstood Disorder...

The Bipolar Child: The Definitive and Reassuring Guide to Childhood's Most Misunderstood Disorder -- Third ... | Demitri Md Papolos, Janice Papolos | THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

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	The Bipolar Child: The Definitive and Reassuring Guide to Childhood's Most Misunderstood Disorder -- Third ... Demitri Md Papolos, Janice Papolos Broadway, 2007 - 496 pages average customer review:based on 117 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

INVALUABLE tool for raising an explosive child

This book is a MUST for ANYONE raising a child who is explosive, inflexible, easily frustrated and difficult. Demitri and Janice Papolos have offered help and hope for any parent seeking answers to raising a child such as this.

From the day I read this book, I began to understand what was going on with my son and my journey began. Suddenly, the pieces to the puzzle fit and I had the road map I so desperately needed. Without sounding dramatic, but being completely honest, I COULD NOT have gone in the right direction medically without having the knowledge I received from this book. I know carry it with me when traveling with my children and use it as a guide when needed.

"The Bipolar Child" offers a symptoms checklist, medication information, school information, physiological info on this disorder, and more. I would highly recommend it to any parent, educator, or health care professional. Dr. Papolos treads and researches where many doctors avoid to go. Because of him and his wife, many will receive direction to get the help they so desperately need. My son is now stable and happy. Thank you to the Papoloses!

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THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

Thank you, Dr. and Mrs. Papolos, for helping to restore my sanity. Your book gives me the answers to all of my hundreds of questions and points me in the right direction in so many areas. My 16-year old son was diagnosed with early onset bipolar disorder a year before this book came out, and I had been close to "losing" it while trying to figure out how to manage my son's illness. There had been no place or person who could pull it all together for me. This book gives families of children with bipolar disorder the information they need to be in control and to understand what needs to be done in terms of available treatments, education, insurance, etc. I'm praying that health care providers will read this book too! Then, maybe thousands of other children won't have to suffer for 10 years (like my son did) before they're diagnosed and properly treated. One note to other readers: I discovered that an extremely valuable website referred to in the book for the Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation has changed to Bpkids.org.

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An invaluable lifevest

There's no life "saver" for living with a bipolar child - the illness doesn't miraculously disappear with diagnosis - but this book is a "lifevest" to guide parents through the roiling and unfamiliar waters of a disease that is only now being acknowledged by doctors. Until the publication of "The Bipolar Child", there was no comprehensive literature available to parents to learn about this disorder. The Papolos' book is easy to read, crammed with useful information and perhaps most importantly, gives the reader a sense that he or she is not alone. I have recommended this book to many people whose children suffer from all sorts of problems, since the medical community has been slow to recognize bipolar disorder in young chiuldren. Several of those people have been amazed by how the stories of children in this book parallel their experiences, despite the fact that their childeren have been diagnozed otherwise. This book is not just a must for parents of bipolar children - it's a must for parents!

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A huge contribution to clarifying a misunderstood subject

Reading this book was an overwhelming experience for me. The realization that my son had been misdiagnosed for years, because the medical profession rejected the idea that bi-polar illness could occur in children came as a huge relief. Due to the fact that our child had been misdiagnosed and given inappropriate treatment over the years, he had become more disturbed, and in fact had to be hospitalized at one point. Bi-polar disorder is hardly an illness one can welcome, but the truth is far easier to handle than explanations that only confuse, and wrong medication that, in our instance, was seriously destructive. We finally feel that we are on the right track, thanks to Janice and Demetri Papolos's book, and that there is reason to hope for our child's future. They have managed to combine detailed information and advice that one cannot find elsewhere, with a wonderful clarity of writing. If you know anyone who is trapped in the dilemma of uncertainty about ADD, HDD and the rest of that alphabet, this is an invaluable resource. If you are in that situation yourself, The Bipolar Child is a treasure beyond rubies

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Excellent! On a par with "The Scarred Heart"

This is an excellent and useful book -- one of a handful of really first rate books on troubled children. I'd put it on a par with Dr. Helen Smith's "The Scarred Heart" -- especially as it, too, has many specific helpful suggestions along with general information that helps the reader understand what is going on in these kids' heads.

reviews: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, page 18, 19, 20

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