Welcome All,
I am a single mom with two children with mood disorders. There are thousands of other parents out here feeling the same emotions I do when one of my children is experiencing an episode of aggression to the point I have to lock up all the kitchen knives, or depression so severe...considering suicide.
The purpose of my blog is to reach out to all of you and share my experience and how drastically my life has changed because of their diagnoses.
I also hope to reach pediatricians and offer suggestions to improve education of parents for signs and symptoms of mood disorders.
I thought my children were just experiencing 'tween' behavior when I chatted with my friends about their behavior.
Until one night one child came to me in tears. He shared with me the sorrow, purposelessness and desire to die he had felt since fourth grade. I called the local childrens' hospital and he was admitted for a week.
Now a year later he is stable on medication and a cheerful child.
One month after his hospitalization the other child was threatening to kill his brother with a knife on more than one occasion when I wasn't home. The night he started pushing me around I called 911. This child has been admitted twice in the last year, for a week each time. Bipolar disorder.
He is stable today. But a much more difficult disorder to manage than Unipolar depression.
I also struggle with depression infrequently. This last year however, was the straw that broke the camel's back. I suffered a Major Depressive Episode which I am still recovering from with the help of a psychiatrist.
I hope to get this blog out as far as I can to allow a sigh of relief to all of you silently screaming as you cope raising children with mood disorders.
Be Well,
Robbin
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