Last week, I spent two days at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA attending a conference on child and adolescent bipolar disorder.
“I definitely like the gender ratio,” I joke, as I sit down with my box lunch at a table with all women. Our table is representative of the entire conference – about nine women for every man. My little icebreaker, unfortunately, is more in the way of gallows humor. I already know that the burden of raising a child with bipolar disorder falls...
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