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difficult child's medications have leveled off...
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<blockquote data-quote="Sara PA" data-source="post: 18878" data-attributes="member: 1498"><p>Nevertheless, </p><p></p><p>1. the American Psychiatric Association's guidelines for treating bipolar is first a mood stabilizer with a short course in an antipsychotic to control an acute manic phase if needed. </p><p></p><p>2. no antipsychotic has been able to prove itself to be a long term mood stabilizer. The clinical testing has been done; they don't work for that. If they did, they would be FDA approved as mood stabilizers. Antipsychotics continue to be approved only for short term use.</p><p></p><p>3. the side effect profile for the mood stabilizers is no worse -- or better -- than for the antipsychotics.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sara PA, post: 18878, member: 1498"] Nevertheless, 1. the American Psychiatric Association's guidelines for treating bipolar is first a mood stabilizer with a short course in an antipsychotic to control an acute manic phase if needed. 2. no antipsychotic has been able to prove itself to be a long term mood stabilizer. The clinical testing has been done; they don't work for that. If they did, they would be FDA approved as mood stabilizers. Antipsychotics continue to be approved only for short term use. 3. the side effect profile for the mood stabilizers is no worse -- or better -- than for the antipsychotics. [/QUOTE]
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