Up Too Late Again

We’ve both been in a funk lately, but I we got out of the house last night (the coffee shop) and tonight (in-laws, who brought us out to eat). The dishes are piled high, but we’ve been managing, washing what we need as we go. My peanut butter and syrup diet will have to go–I ran out of peanut butter today.

I have to say, I really miss those little mood icons on LiveJournal.

Mood right now: blah

Moving. Again. (Sort of)

Due to the recent spate of actual entries, many of which have nothing to do with my experience as a nutter, I’m moving the quotidian entries to Od(d)yssey on Blogger. I now have 7 blogs; one for every mood, I guess.

I’ll continue to post entries concerning mental stuff here.

Something to Think About

This Is Your (Father’s) Brain on Drugs

“One troubling possibility: youths are being maligned to draw attention from the reality that it’s actually middle-aged adults — the parents — whose behavior has worsened.”

Go baby boomers.

The Latest Fashion in Poor Parenting?

Fresh off the presses of the New York Times: Bipolar Soars as Diagnosis for the Young

Move over ADHD, make room for the new catchall: Pediatric Bipolar.

What’s going on? Is it that parents (or adults in general) no longer know how to deal with difficult children? Or that the entire world is more mental than ever?

Parents don’t let their children have sugar or coffee or cigarettes or even softdrinks–why is a psychoactive drug that scares most adults ok?

I cannot imagine giving an eight-year-old a stimulant, much less lithium.

No one knows how these medications affect the adult brain, much less the still-developing child’s brain. There have been no studies of the long-term effects of any of these drug (except lithium–which is not generally given long-term because of the possibility of serious side-effects) on anyone–they’re too new.

Their follow-up article, which says much the same, but with more caveat, and mentions the POV that it’s just bad parenting:

Study Questions Some Bipolar Diagnoses

UPDATE: Try this to get the article. AP doesn’t like permalinks.