Comments on: Arthur http://www.finkshrink.com/blog Information and support Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:57:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Dr. Fink http://www.finkshrink.com/blog/bipolar-stories-and-insights/arthur/comment-page-1#comment-1526 Dr. Fink Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:22:18 +0000 http://finkshrink.com/blog/?page_id=228#comment-1526 Hey Arthur - I read your post today and wanted to let you know how brave you are for facing your difficulties and seeking out information and guidance here. It sounds like you are under the care of a doctor - and I want to encourage you to ask your doctor lots of questions and to be an active part of the treatment decisions. if you are not comfortable asking the doctor directly, you can talk to your parents and they can ask your questions for you. You might try keeping a mood journal - or just a calendar - to show your doc how much your mood changes - that also helps with making medication decisions. I hope you are working with a therapist - might be your doctor or someone else. Therapy is just as important as medications so make sure to work hard there as well. Best of luck to you Arthur - you are still quite young so it is hard to know if this will be life long, but handling it now will reduce the chances of a long term problem. best of luck, Dr. Fink Hey Arthur –
I read your post today and wanted to let you know how brave you are for facing your difficulties and seeking out information and guidance here. It sounds like you are under the care of a doctor – and I want to encourage you to ask your doctor lots of questions and to be an active part of the treatment decisions. if you are not comfortable asking the doctor directly, you can talk to your parents and they can ask your questions for you.

You might try keeping a mood journal – or just a calendar – to show your doc how much your mood changes – that also helps with making medication decisions.
I hope you are working with a therapist – might be your doctor or someone else. Therapy is just as important as medications so make sure to work hard there as well.

Best of luck to you Arthur – you are still quite young so it is hard to know if this will be life long, but handling it now will reduce the chances of a long term problem.

best of luck,
Dr. Fink

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