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  1. The Difficulties of Parenting

    1/24/12 12:21pm by Amykk727
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    I read a blog post the other day that I felt the need to respond to, indirectly.  It's not that the idea that "parenting isn't hard" made me mad enough to respond to, but rather that I had a particularly bad parenting day yesterday and kept thinking about the author's idea that the fact that we should love our kids so much that it should be "easy" to not yell or lose our tempers with them, because that definitely was not happening for me.  Read more >

  2. Goodbye, ECT

    1/20/12 11:16am by Amykk727
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    I finished my 10th and final ECT treatment this week, and boy am I excited! They were kind of a pain, and the whole being "shocked into a seizure" thing is a little concerning. Read all about why I'm glad to be done: bipolarknitter.com.  Read more >

  3. When is a Bad Mood More than a Bad Mood?

    1/17/12 1:52pm by Amykk727
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    If you suffer from a mood disorder, like chronic depression, bipolar disorder, or the like, it's awful hard to determine when you're just in a plain-old, vanilla bad mood, or when you're slipping down that slippery slope of depression.  I'm not sure what the answer is; how DO you know when a bad mood is just a bad mood?  I talk about it in my most recent blog post:  http://bipolarknitter.com  Read more >

  4. A Word on Health Care and Mental Health Treatments

    1/9/12 12:26pm by Amykk727
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    There's been a lot in the local news lately about mental health care and health care reform on a local and state level.  I couldn't help but address two of these articles in a few blog posts.  One of the articles was a report on how a local hospital is closing its mental health facility; another was about a push for value-added health care reform in Ohio. Check out my blog posts, complete with links to the articles, here:  http://bipolarknitter.com.   Read more >

  5. My One, Itty, Bitty, 2012 Goal

    1/3/12 12:00pm by Amykk727
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    Like most of the rest of the 7 billion people on this earth, I made a New Year's "Resolution."  I put "resolution" in quotes because I really don't like the term -- mainly because I always fail at making resolutions.Anyhoo, here's my one teeny, tiny, itty, bitty, seemingly simple goal:  stay out of the hosptial.If I look at 2011 as a trendsetter, that little bitty goal seems a lot harder, seeing as how I had 10 overnight hospital stays in 2011.   Read more >

  6. Christmas Observations

    12/26/11 10:51am by Amykk727
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    I've made some observations this Christmas.  Nothing earth shattering, nothing that important, but, in my experience, true nonetheless.Check them out here:  http://bipolarknitter.comHope your Christmas was bah humbug free.  Read more >

  7. The Whole, or the Sum of Our Parts?

    12/22/11 11:02am by Amykk727
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    Did you ever wonder if psychiatrists see us as just the sum of our symptoms?  I have, and address it here:  http://bipolarknitter.com.   Read more >

  8. Check-In With ECT

    12/20/11 7:58am by Amykk727
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    I am still doing ECT treatments; I have two left this week.  I am hoping these are the last two I have to do for a while.  Read more about my treatments at http://bipolarknitter.com.  Read more >

  9. A Little Bit About Electroconvulsive Therapy

    12/17/11 1:07pm by Amykk727
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    This past week, while I wasn't knitting, I was having electroconvlsive therapy.  Am I nuts?  Who does this form of therapy voluntarily?  To start the conversation, I looked up a little bit about the practice's history, including the fact that the idea originated when an Italian psychiatrist watched a herd of pigs being shocked into submission before being slaughtered.  Lovely.Read more here:  http://bipolarknitter.comHave you had ECT?   What was your experience?  Read more >

  10. Reporting from the Front Lines

    12/11/11 7:08am by Amykk727
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    I am writing from a mental health facility with a contraband iPod. What's next, Jack Nicholson's showing up with hookers and smuggled booze? What a wild life I lead. Read about it here: http://bipolarknitter.com.  Read more >

amy krug

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amy krug
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Former teacher, current mom, part-time crafter, occasionally mentally unbalanced.

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