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Publisher
HBO Documentary Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"On the night of Oct. 2, 2005, Hart and Dana Perry's 15-year-old son Evan jumped to his death from his New York City bedroom window. This moving film is the story, told by his filmmaker parents and others who knew him, of Evan's life and death, and life-long struggle with bipolar disorder. ... In showing how one family deals with generations of loss and grief, the film defies the stigma related to mental illness and suicide..."--Container.
4) The bipolar child: the definitive and reassuring guide to childhood's most misunderstood disorder
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Seven years ago Paul Raeburn's son, Alex, eleven, was admitted to a psychiatric hospital after leaving his fifth-grade classroom in an inexplicable rage. He was hospitalized three times over the next three years, until he was finally diagnosed by a psychiatrist as exhibiting a clear-cut case of bipolar disorder. This ended a painful period of misdiagnosis and inappropriate drug therapy. Then Raeburn's younger daughter, Alicia, twelve, was diagnosed...
Author
Language
English
Description
"When a child is struggling with an emotional or behavioral problem, parents face many difficult decisions. Is medication the right choice? What about side effects? How long will medication be needed? In this authoritative guide, leading child psychiatrists Drs. Timothy Wilens and Paul Hammerness explain the nuts and bolts of psychiatric medications--from how they work and potential risks to their impact on a child's emotions, school performance,...
9) The childhood bipolar disorder answerbook: practical answers to the top 300 questions parents ask
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks, Inc
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Health Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Six million people in America suffer from bipolar disorder. Joan Child's daughter, Pamela, suffered from bipolar, bouncing from doctor to doctor in search of treatment. Yet the demons great louder, and on a summer day in July 1998, the same day that the Oprah Winfrey showed aired a segment on Bipolar Disease, Joan Childs' 34-year-old-daughter leaped to her death from the window of her father's 15-story apartment. An Angel to Remember is her mother...
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