A Day in The Life – loving, learning, helping my BiPolar Son

Article – Bipolar Children are more creative than others – full article

My son has often made the above statement and I completely agree that he is very creative.  He taught himself how to program HTML when he was just ten.  They thought he was board in class and tested him to see if he had a learning disability and we discovered that his IQ was at 130 in around 6th grade.  He would later tell us he was just bored as a teacher taught them the same things over and over.

I strongly belive that in school we should be more focused on each individual child’s needs and building their strengths and passions, not just the needs.

This article is a great read about the topic of creativity in Bipolar individuals.  So when you have a hard time understanding your young child try and do what I do and focus on the fact that your child is indeed unique, not because they are Bipolar, but because not everyone can be as creative deep down as your child.  Find their passion, painting, writing, dancing, what ever if maybe and help them find ways to utilize that creative juice.

Writing has become one of my son’s passions and he just completed an entire screen play in 5 days, of course they were five high strung days but he was thrilled.  The sad part of the Bipolar illness was that after completing the screen play he crashed really, really bad and almost ripped it up, telling me, “It doesn’t matter what I do that makes me happy, I will always be depressed like this, it will never go away!”

Love them up, don’t ever let them feel alone.

Love & Peace,
Rebecca