Yes

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  by Amber Hilton

  Created on: May 22, 2008   Last Updated: April 15, 2012

  Fortunately, a diagnosis of bipolar disorder no longer has to equal a life of loneliness and isolation.

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  by fran dreascher

  Created on: April 05, 2009   Last Updated: April 11, 2009

  Bipolar disorder is a disease of the mind, just as cancer is a disease of the body. With medication

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  by Tara Emmett

  Created on: July 07, 2010   Last Updated: July 08, 2010

  Nothing is stronger than the bond between a mother and her child. Not even a slight mental disorder.

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  by Leah Curtis

  Created on: December 29, 2008

  Can mothers with bipolar illness make good parents? I kept looking at this question, wondering why it

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  by Amanda Conrad

  Created on: November 15, 2007   Last Updated: November 16, 2007

  Bipolar disorder is a mental illness that causes extreme depression alternated with extreme mania. This

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  by Meredith Blake

  Created on: January 13, 2008

  My mother was officially diagnosed with bipolar disorder when I was 12 years old, although we now know

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  by Robyn Reece

  Created on: June 20, 2010

  As a mother with bi-polar I most certainly think we can make good parents.

  Before finding out I have

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  by Cheryl Adkins

  Created on: August 01, 2009

  I am the mother of three grown children. I have bipolar disorder and so do my children. I don't think

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  by Aimee Gold

  Created on: June 27, 2009

  Can a person diagnosed with bipolar disorder function in any capacity whatsoever? Isn't this the

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  by Linda L Kinyon

  Created on: March 06, 2009   Last Updated: July 26, 2010

  Would you consider someone in a wheelchair unfit to be a parent? How about someone who wears glasses?

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  by Pamela Shelnutt

  Created on: December 05, 2010

  Yes, mothers with Bipolar Disorder can make not only good, but excellent parents.  A diagnosis

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  by Catherine Greenfield

  Created on: October 18, 2009   Last Updated: October 23, 2009

  Consider the question as it stands:

  "Can mothers diagnosed with bipolar disorder make good parents?"

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  by Angela Pagniello

  Created on: January 21, 2010

  As a mother of 3 who was diagnosed with Bi-Polar disorder over a year ago I have to agree, that YES

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  by Carol Fox

  Created on: December 13, 2008   Last Updated: December 19, 2008

  I am the proud mother of a beautiful 21 month old boy. I am also a "Bipolar Mom". I have been living

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  by S.E. Ingraham

  Created on: August 15, 2009

  My knee-jerk reaction to this question was that it couldn't possibly be for real. After all, what

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  by Kris Kennedy

  Created on: September 07, 2009

  Bipolar Mothers

  Mothers come in many levels of competence and there has not been a test or criteria

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  by Kimberlie Bastone

  Created on: March 17, 2009

  Bipolar disorder is one of the most misunderstood mental illnesses, partly because the number of diagnoses

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  by Sarah Miller

  Created on: July 09, 2008

  My mother had always lacked compassion and empathy, she would ridicule and emotionally abuse us and

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  by Priscilla Benfield

  Created on: May 19, 2009   Last Updated: May 24, 2009

  Why can't a bipolar woman be a good mother? This shouldn't even be a question. Bipolar disorder is a

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  by Jason Greene

  Created on: December 22, 2008

  My fiance was diagnosed as a child with bipolar disorder, as was her mother. And though her mother made