Beautifully written article about children with Bipolar

couldn't have said it any better

I have the illness and yet I'm sorry for what is going on with you and your son in the way of shotty treatment and indifference.  Sadly, it happens to us adults as well.  It's just more poignant to see it happening to the wee ones of us.

It's always nice to know that others understand.  It's very sad but true.  When you have a child with an emotional/behavior problem they always look to the parents for blame first.  The hospital staff for the most part doesn't listen to the parents.  They figure we're the cause of the problem and don't know what we're talking about.  Having your child in the hospital is a very lonely, stressful, and demeaning experience.  The psychiatrist who treated our son didn't want to release him to us because of things our son said.  He didn't even bother getting the story from us.  Thankfully his caseworker spent enough time with us and watching us interact with our son to know what the true story was.

I wish people would see my boy as a great kid who's creative and loving.  Instead they see him as bad or spoiled or overly mothered.