I just received an excellent question from Mike:
Julie, I love these blogs but I have an 8yr old girl with bipolar disorder and everything is about adults. Her anger just gets worse and worse and I don’t know how to teach her the stuff i read from you. the hcp has her on depakote and risperidal, please tell my wife and I how we can help her. I feel so bad that she has to feel this way.
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I will answer this question either tonight of tomorrow. I thought I had time right now, but I am off to a meeting to interview a potential speaker for the Latino Mental Health event that my friend Gayathri Ramprasad is doing here in Portland, Oregon.
The childhood bipolar questions are so important and I want to give this a lot of thought before I answer.
UPDATE: I have not forgotten this question- I have just been in one of those hard to function at work episodes. I did get other projects done, so I can be proud of this- but this question is next.
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