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Anyone know a good MOOD STABILIZER??
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 359226" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>A mood stabilizer is for bipolar. I'm not sure his diagnosis would warrant one or help him. </p><p></p><p>Mood stabilizers take up to<em><strong> eight </strong></em>weeks to work and have some bad side effects. I would actually first and foremost want the Concerta discontinued. Any child on the autism spectrum can be very sensitive to medication. My son took stimulants and all of them made him mean and angry. Discontinuing it may alone cause great improvement. He also took Lithium, Trileptal and Depakote because they mistakenly said he had bipolar. The Lithium and Depakote doped him up and he gained close to 80 lbs. in three years. He is still quite heavy and he has been off the medications now for five years, but he was constantly hungry on the Depakote and Lithium. The Tripletal made him uber-hyper...it made me question his diagnosis. </p><p></p><p>Hospitalization is effective during a medication wash or if your child is a danger to himself or others and needs to be stabilized, but, sadly, they rarely keep a child in the hospital long enough for a diagnostic evaluation plus medication testing. A long time ago, I was in the hospital for ten weeks and my insurance covered it, and I was able to be diagnosed, treated, AND to wait to see if the medications were working. Unfortunately, these days insurance covers maybe five days. The only real long term care is an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) and, although it's up to you what you do, Aspergers would be hard to treat in a psychiatric hospital because it is behaviorally based and Aspergers causes behaviors that LOOK like psychiatric problems but are actually neurological in root cause. I hope he gets some Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) help.</p><p></p><p>Good luck to you and your little guy. Been there/done that/have the shirt!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 359226, member: 1550"] A mood stabilizer is for bipolar. I'm not sure his diagnosis would warrant one or help him. Mood stabilizers take up to[I][B] eight [/B][/I]weeks to work and have some bad side effects. I would actually first and foremost want the Concerta discontinued. Any child on the autism spectrum can be very sensitive to medication. My son took stimulants and all of them made him mean and angry. Discontinuing it may alone cause great improvement. He also took Lithium, Trileptal and Depakote because they mistakenly said he had bipolar. The Lithium and Depakote doped him up and he gained close to 80 lbs. in three years. He is still quite heavy and he has been off the medications now for five years, but he was constantly hungry on the Depakote and Lithium. The Tripletal made him uber-hyper...it made me question his diagnosis. Hospitalization is effective during a medication wash or if your child is a danger to himself or others and needs to be stabilized, but, sadly, they rarely keep a child in the hospital long enough for a diagnostic evaluation plus medication testing. A long time ago, I was in the hospital for ten weeks and my insurance covered it, and I was able to be diagnosed, treated, AND to wait to see if the medications were working. Unfortunately, these days insurance covers maybe five days. The only real long term care is an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) and, although it's up to you what you do, Aspergers would be hard to treat in a psychiatric hospital because it is behaviorally based and Aspergers causes behaviors that LOOK like psychiatric problems but are actually neurological in root cause. I hope he gets some Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) help. Good luck to you and your little guy. Been there/done that/have the shirt! [/QUOTE]
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