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Bipolar Disorder - Learn To Take Days One At A Time

I told the family something happened when he was 12 months old. They said nothing happened. I insisted it did, they insisted it didn't - so finally I said "Something happened, to cause his mother, to be extremely upset when he was just 12 months old!" Oh, then they remembered, his brother died. The mother obviously was devastated for a period of time - and that is all it took to set the stage for the later development of the disorder. Nearly everyone understands Posttraumatic Stress Disorder from war. A car backfires next to a combat veteran and he grabs a gun and hides in the woods for a few days. This we understand because we can appreciate the terrors of war. What we don't appreciate is that more overwhelming than war trauma to a soldier is separation from mother to a baby.

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