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Handcuffed difficult child 2 had a chat with the cop yesterday
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<blockquote data-quote="rlsnights" data-source="post: 313021" data-attributes="member: 7948"><p>difficult child 2 is back to nearly normal if you can believe it. Finally talked to our psychiatrist Saturday morning and she said I should have hospitalized him last night. One of my many mistakes the evening before was not doing this but I had my reasons - mainly our past negative experience with the psychiatric hospital he would have gone to.</p><p></p><p>Upped his Abilify all weekend and gave him about 250 mg Benadryl between Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon.</p><p></p><p>Don't know if the combo worked or he just naturally cycled down. </p><p></p><p>And of course now I am having anxiety attacks in my sleep. Woke up the last two nights after only 4-5 hours of disturbed sleep gasping and heart racing.</p><p></p><p>Have an appointment with my own therapist this morning, difficult child 2's therapist this afternoon and our family psychiatrist tomorrow. Bless my own foresight in scheduling lots of appts far in advance cause it can take weeks to get into our psychiatrist.</p><p></p><p>I HATE this disease.</p><p></p><p>Right now I am thinking that he is ultra-rapid or ultradian cycling with the rages being a mixed mood episode. When he gets like he was on Thursday and Friday nights he crashes directly into feeling suicidal and incredibly ashamed - which is exactly my pattern when I have a really bad mixed episode, regardless of whether I've been emotionally/verbally hurtful to others during the mixed episode.</p><p></p><p>I'm thinking he's doing OK at school cause it's the hypomanic phase and he just looks oh so productive and happy to all the teachers. Did I mention that he's getting ALL his homework done before he leaves school cause he does it during class? Then by late afternoon he's up to irritable and sometimes just stays at the irritable hypomanic stage and other times shifts up into a mixed episode which is when we get the big rages.</p><p></p><p>And just to make sure the waters are muddied, we have a big dose of anxiety thrown in for good measure. Who wouldn't be anxious?</p><p></p><p>Sent a 5 page e-mail to the psychiatrist and therapist last night with all the gory details. We'll see what they think.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rlsnights, post: 313021, member: 7948"] difficult child 2 is back to nearly normal if you can believe it. Finally talked to our psychiatrist Saturday morning and she said I should have hospitalized him last night. One of my many mistakes the evening before was not doing this but I had my reasons - mainly our past negative experience with the psychiatric hospital he would have gone to. Upped his Abilify all weekend and gave him about 250 mg Benadryl between Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon. Don't know if the combo worked or he just naturally cycled down. And of course now I am having anxiety attacks in my sleep. Woke up the last two nights after only 4-5 hours of disturbed sleep gasping and heart racing. Have an appointment with my own therapist this morning, difficult child 2's therapist this afternoon and our family psychiatrist tomorrow. Bless my own foresight in scheduling lots of appts far in advance cause it can take weeks to get into our psychiatrist. I HATE this disease. Right now I am thinking that he is ultra-rapid or ultradian cycling with the rages being a mixed mood episode. When he gets like he was on Thursday and Friday nights he crashes directly into feeling suicidal and incredibly ashamed - which is exactly my pattern when I have a really bad mixed episode, regardless of whether I've been emotionally/verbally hurtful to others during the mixed episode. I'm thinking he's doing OK at school cause it's the hypomanic phase and he just looks oh so productive and happy to all the teachers. Did I mention that he's getting ALL his homework done before he leaves school cause he does it during class? Then by late afternoon he's up to irritable and sometimes just stays at the irritable hypomanic stage and other times shifts up into a mixed episode which is when we get the big rages. And just to make sure the waters are muddied, we have a big dose of anxiety thrown in for good measure. Who wouldn't be anxious? Sent a 5 page e-mail to the psychiatrist and therapist last night with all the gory details. We'll see what they think. [/QUOTE]
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