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<blockquote data-quote="gcvmom" data-source="post: 53060" data-attributes="member: 3444"><p>The psychologist did feel that what he was seeing was a medication-induced mania. But next week he'll get to see difficult child 2 medication-free, and so it will be interesting to get his interpretation of the situation.</p><p></p><p>As for obsessions, it usually goes like this: difficult child 2 gets it into his head that he wants to acquire or do something and he does not let go of that thought, and will talk about it a lot, and will get very mad if he thinks you are not going to facilitate this thing for him, getting worked up and arguing and screaming and jumping up and down or being physically violent to the point of a nuclear meltdown that can last 20 to 30 minutes. This was going on pre-Tenex (was on stimulant and Abilify at the time), and typically would peak when stims had worn off or if they were not working well for him that day. A few years ago when he was on stims and Zoloft, he was stuck on wanting to get some special shoes. He didn't get violent or mad, but would cry and get very emotional if he thought things weren't going to go his way. After Zoloft, he went on Risperdal, and that helped for some time, but we had to increase his dose and when it was approaching 4mg and he was still having problems with emotions (crying, getting frustrated a lot), psychiatrist switched to Abilify.</p><p></p><p>He still got this way a little bit on the Tenex, but no where near as severe when on the stims and Abilify.</p><p></p><p>I probably would have sought help sooner, but the past year and half was consumed with difficult child 1's Crohn's disease diagnosis, treatments, and he was supposed to have major surgery next week but it was cancelled at the last minute since tests showed his condition had improved dramatically. What a blessing for everyone, since difficult child 2 REALLY needs my attention now!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gcvmom, post: 53060, member: 3444"] The psychologist did feel that what he was seeing was a medication-induced mania. But next week he'll get to see difficult child 2 medication-free, and so it will be interesting to get his interpretation of the situation. As for obsessions, it usually goes like this: difficult child 2 gets it into his head that he wants to acquire or do something and he does not let go of that thought, and will talk about it a lot, and will get very mad if he thinks you are not going to facilitate this thing for him, getting worked up and arguing and screaming and jumping up and down or being physically violent to the point of a nuclear meltdown that can last 20 to 30 minutes. This was going on pre-Tenex (was on stimulant and Abilify at the time), and typically would peak when stims had worn off or if they were not working well for him that day. A few years ago when he was on stims and Zoloft, he was stuck on wanting to get some special shoes. He didn't get violent or mad, but would cry and get very emotional if he thought things weren't going to go his way. After Zoloft, he went on Risperdal, and that helped for some time, but we had to increase his dose and when it was approaching 4mg and he was still having problems with emotions (crying, getting frustrated a lot), psychiatrist switched to Abilify. He still got this way a little bit on the Tenex, but no where near as severe when on the stims and Abilify. I probably would have sought help sooner, but the past year and half was consumed with difficult child 1's Crohn's disease diagnosis, treatments, and he was supposed to have major surgery next week but it was cancelled at the last minute since tests showed his condition had improved dramatically. What a blessing for everyone, since difficult child 2 REALLY needs my attention now! [/QUOTE]
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