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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 547192" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>In my opinion (and this only applies to our experience) the psychiatrist was much less helpful than our neuropsychologist. He misdiagnosed our son and said he had bipolar without even mentioning the autism. He was very hostile when we told him what the neuropsychologist (that we had found on our own) had told us so we dropped the psychiatric. He was just prescribing medications anyway and the medications were having a bad effect on our child, including nightly bedwetting, obesity, and lethargy and cognitive dulling. Now some k ids need the medications, but ours didn't. Once we removed the medications, he started doing better. Most of his help came from school and community interventions. Today he is nineteen and ready to find a job through Workforce Development. He's quite a happy young man with a group of friends and a personality all his own. I shudder to think of how he would be if we had gone along with the bipolar diagnosis, kept up the heavy medications, and not paid attention to the Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). I do not think he would be the very pleasant, likeable and cheerful young man he is today. He is not problem-free and he still has signs of the autistic spectrum disorder, but most of the time he is on an even keel. When he isn't, it means he did something he feels guilty about...there are no random moodswings so the bipolar diagnosis was bogus. He is probably my most even tempered child.</p><p></p><p>My son stopped bedwetting a few days after we quit the Lithium and he has never done it again (or before the Lithium). These medications are very serious medications and some doctors act like they are candy.</p><p></p><p>Neuropsychs do intensive testing. Psychiatrists don't. I think that's the difference.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 547192, member: 1550"] In my opinion (and this only applies to our experience) the psychiatrist was much less helpful than our neuropsychologist. He misdiagnosed our son and said he had bipolar without even mentioning the autism. He was very hostile when we told him what the neuropsychologist (that we had found on our own) had told us so we dropped the psychiatric. He was just prescribing medications anyway and the medications were having a bad effect on our child, including nightly bedwetting, obesity, and lethargy and cognitive dulling. Now some k ids need the medications, but ours didn't. Once we removed the medications, he started doing better. Most of his help came from school and community interventions. Today he is nineteen and ready to find a job through Workforce Development. He's quite a happy young man with a group of friends and a personality all his own. I shudder to think of how he would be if we had gone along with the bipolar diagnosis, kept up the heavy medications, and not paid attention to the Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). I do not think he would be the very pleasant, likeable and cheerful young man he is today. He is not problem-free and he still has signs of the autistic spectrum disorder, but most of the time he is on an even keel. When he isn't, it means he did something he feels guilty about...there are no random moodswings so the bipolar diagnosis was bogus. He is probably my most even tempered child. My son stopped bedwetting a few days after we quit the Lithium and he has never done it again (or before the Lithium). These medications are very serious medications and some doctors act like they are candy. Neuropsychs do intensive testing. Psychiatrists don't. I think that's the difference. [/QUOTE]
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