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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 112292" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>Thanks, Martie, that sounds like a healthy perspective to me- and a positive one for your difficult child. We have anxiety and depression and eccentricity(sp) in my family so this is why I think there is a spectrum and difficult child inherited it- my terminology might be wrong or different but I think we're saying the same thing.</p><p></p><p>I'm not sure that psychiatrist is convinced difficult child is truly bipolar qualified, per diagnosis criteria- after his crime spree when prozac dosage was increased, psychiatrist said "oh no, that sounds manic", then my difficult child read some stuff I had on bipolar lying around and went to psychiatrist and told him he thought he was bipolar- of course, psychiatrist asked why and what symptons did he see in himself (looking for what difficult child noticed, not that he was going to let difficult child diagnosis himself). Yes, difficult child is on mood stabilizers, but the only time psychiatrist actually ever said bipolar was in a letter to the courts regarding difficult child's crime spree- and probably to insurance company. This might or might not be because it's simpler than explaining cycling and BiPolar (BP) criteria. At one point he wrote that it was suggestive of bipolar, then in another letter (for custody after my bro. was trying to make me and psychiatrist both look like quacks)psychiatrist wrote Bipolar not otherwise specified.</p><p></p><p>I don't think any diagnosis made right now is going to stick lifelong- I do think difficult child will have some depression, possibly anxiety or hyper tendencies, maybe some anger issues(hope not), because this runs in my family. No one ever diagnosis'd anyone else in my family with BiPolar (BP) but who knows- actually, no one has acted quite as erratic as difficult child. I just want it treated appropriately- like all of us here!! I will say, though, difficult child has told psychiatrist about certain "periods of time" that he feels pain differently and there have been clear, extreme changes in him for periods of time, and he's done the jumping out of car, fire setting, etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 112292, member: 3699"] Thanks, Martie, that sounds like a healthy perspective to me- and a positive one for your difficult child. We have anxiety and depression and eccentricity(sp) in my family so this is why I think there is a spectrum and difficult child inherited it- my terminology might be wrong or different but I think we're saying the same thing. I'm not sure that psychiatrist is convinced difficult child is truly bipolar qualified, per diagnosis criteria- after his crime spree when prozac dosage was increased, psychiatrist said "oh no, that sounds manic", then my difficult child read some stuff I had on bipolar lying around and went to psychiatrist and told him he thought he was bipolar- of course, psychiatrist asked why and what symptons did he see in himself (looking for what difficult child noticed, not that he was going to let difficult child diagnosis himself). Yes, difficult child is on mood stabilizers, but the only time psychiatrist actually ever said bipolar was in a letter to the courts regarding difficult child's crime spree- and probably to insurance company. This might or might not be because it's simpler than explaining cycling and BiPolar (BP) criteria. At one point he wrote that it was suggestive of bipolar, then in another letter (for custody after my bro. was trying to make me and psychiatrist both look like quacks)psychiatrist wrote Bipolar not otherwise specified. I don't think any diagnosis made right now is going to stick lifelong- I do think difficult child will have some depression, possibly anxiety or hyper tendencies, maybe some anger issues(hope not), because this runs in my family. No one ever diagnosis'd anyone else in my family with BiPolar (BP) but who knows- actually, no one has acted quite as erratic as difficult child. I just want it treated appropriately- like all of us here!! I will say, though, difficult child has told psychiatrist about certain "periods of time" that he feels pain differently and there have been clear, extreme changes in him for periods of time, and he's done the jumping out of car, fire setting, etc. [/QUOTE]
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