Comments on: Staying the Course Prescribed for Major Depressive and Bipolar Disorders: A Family’s Journey Thus Far

By: In Deed, Indeed - Compassion and Empathy | GNIF Brain Blogger

In Deed, Indeed - Compassion and Empathy | GNIF Brain Blogger — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:43:05 +0000

[...] so that I might better manage my own feelings of disappointment related to this subject where my son’s constant battle with chronic major depressive disorder is concerned. I aspire for a kind of closure that would [...]

By: buga.daniel

buga.daniel — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:05:54 +0000

I just hope for the best.. I am sure you are going through hard time .. it is your son after all.. I wish you all the happiness in the world ..

By: Ravi Shankar Singh

Ravi Shankar Singh — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 05:43:35 +0000

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By: Patti

Patti — Tue, 29 May 2007 20:05:40 +0000

Immi,

Thanks for your response…You’re going to do well, no doubt. There are a great deal of avenues for support where your illness is concerned. Talk to other people with bipolar disorder, get involved in these crucial programs that educate, and read everything you can get your hands on regarding the illness and therapies treating bipolar disorder. Seek out those people that will dig in with you. Be consistent with meds and cognitive behavioral therapies. This will make the difference in how you perceive your challenge. You’re likely highly creative, so take the time to invest those energies in rewarding pursuits that will help give a sense of “why” you’re invaluable to this world. Sometimes folks challenged with this disorder “pain” over such ponderings. I’ve found it almost always the case that people with bipolar disorder are “extra-gifted” in the area of creativity. Find your “area”, if you have not already, and pour some of your heightened energies there…It will serve you and others in many profound ways. Focus on current, but also look forward to future advances in neuroscience that will result in a cure. Invest in encouraging those around you to educate themselves on the realities of bipolar disorder. Immi, above all, have faith and believe in the sustaining and healing power of dedicated love.
I wish you health and every happiness you can hold.

By: Immi

Immi — Sat, 05 May 2007 08:46:40 +0000

You go, mom!

And soâ€¦ “What” in the absence of physiological cure to date? As in any other chronic illness where family support is concerned, thatâ€™s easily stated: “Loveâ€¦ Loveâ€¦ Love,” of the “unconditional”? variety.

I’m 43 and was just recently diagnosed as having bipolar disorder, after 30 years of being treated for various wrong things. Until there is more effective physiological treatment and cure, it’s the unconditional love that gets people like myself and your son through. Keep it up, and hopefully we’ll live long enough to see the dawn of a cure.

By: NITTIN KENI

NITTIN KENI — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:12:55 +0000

this type of mental problem is a common problem of brain. our expert Mr. Ravi Shankar Singh is sggesting some line of tretment by which hundreds of such type of patient has been cured within a month.
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thanking you

By: Brain Blogging, First Edition | GNIF Brain Blogger

Brain Blogging, First Edition | GNIF Brain Blogger — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:39:28 +0000

[...] but not least, Patti Wilson-Herndon wrote a special piece for the GNIF Brain Blogger outlining her family’s journey with her son living with major [...]

By: JANE’S MENTAL HEALTH SOURCE PAGE (EST. 1998) » Blog Archive » Blog Carnival Edition for January 10, 2007

Tue, 09 Jan 2007 04:25:48 +0000

[...] GNIF Brain Blogger shared a mother’s relationship both with her son and with other family members whose compassion and patience have bounds. In Staying the Course Prescribed for Major Depressive and Bipolar Disorders: A Family’s Journey Thus Far, Patti Wilson-Herndon talks about her son’s major depressive disorder and possible bipolar disorder condition, and how she has learned not to be as emotionally affected by less-than-understanding family members of her son’s condition. GNIF Brain Blogger also explains THE book in psychiatry: The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM. [...]

By: Patti Wilson

Patti Wilson — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 06:08:16 +0000

Thank you for your response. Thank you too, for the wonderful work you do.
My hope for affected patients and their families is that we continue to find effective ways to educate based on facts prevalent in these disorders. The overall response from some connected can often be tilted to the side of emotion. Where those emotions include a negative or harmful impact on a patient and family; I think a strictly cognitive approach is the best equalizer in handling those associated with the patient or family whose unsupportive energies disrupt the process of treatment. Patients can better cope with the challenges presented by the illness in utilizing this approach. Setting clear boundaries with those associated that ensure that the patients will have the ability to maintain a positive, hope-filled approach with regard to their illness will help ensure the best quality of life. Patients, and their families, have enough challenge to deal with in managing the illness without the added stress created from the sometimes critical, misinformed judgment of others.

By: PsyDCounselor

PsyDCounselor — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:56:37 +0000

I entirely agree with you when you said,

Peoples’ ambivalence, and then to the opposite intensity, their rush to character judgment is, quite literally, emotional “assault” rubbed into an already serious wound.

I am in the profession of mental health counseling, and I see the rampant disownment and separation of once-close family members with patients with bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.

Stigmas hurt us all!