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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 421782" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Oh, trust me, you are NOT a bad mother. The medications game is so difficult and if I had it to do over again, that game would have not been played on my son. </p><p></p><p>Now *I* need medications because I have a severe mood disorder and I was suicidal until I found a good combo for me (only took TEN YEARS...hahahaha). But it's been a good twenty years since. However, my son is on the autism spectrum, something hub and I suspected maybe a week after we adopted him at age two. It seemed so obvious. But the professionals, all one hundred of them (it seemed) would not give him that label. We finally got ahold of one psychiatrist who insisted he had childhood bipolar and put him on a slew of medications for a few years. All of them were horrible. Some made him aggressive, which he had never been in the past.</p><p></p><p>Well, I got to the point your at now and did research. The final straw was when I took my son to a meeting of parents and children, all the children having diagnoses of childhood bipolar disorder (I'm still not sure what this is or if doctors are even sure what to look for when slapping the label on a child). At any rate, a few of the parents, noticed Sonic playing his handheld videogame, off in his own world, not interacting EXCEPT ON HIS TERMS and asked me if he had a form of autism. He is very verbal and at times can be very friendly, so because of that the psychiatrist insisted he had bipolar, not Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Whatever! We took him to a neuropsychologist and he caught the Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) right away and was puzzled it had taken us so long to get the diagnosis. He has no psychiatric problems so he was weaned off the medications. Nine years later, he is still off medications and is certainly NOT bipolar. He's not even moody. He's sort of an easygoing, even keel kind of kid. </p><p></p><p>My advice is to keep doing your homework and keep looking for the right answer and question every medication. I have found that a few psychiatrists throw diagnoses and medications around like they are both the flavors of the week, then they can turn around and blame YOU when their treatment doesn't work. Psychiatry is an inexact science. Since I'm a psychiatric patient myself I can tell you that I've had more bad psychiatrists than good ones. But, in the end, for both myself and my son it was worth staying the course. It is just incredibly frustrating while going through it. I have learned to question, question, question. And use your mom gut.</p><p></p><p>Good luck!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 421782, member: 1550"] Oh, trust me, you are NOT a bad mother. The medications game is so difficult and if I had it to do over again, that game would have not been played on my son. Now *I* need medications because I have a severe mood disorder and I was suicidal until I found a good combo for me (only took TEN YEARS...hahahaha). But it's been a good twenty years since. However, my son is on the autism spectrum, something hub and I suspected maybe a week after we adopted him at age two. It seemed so obvious. But the professionals, all one hundred of them (it seemed) would not give him that label. We finally got ahold of one psychiatrist who insisted he had childhood bipolar and put him on a slew of medications for a few years. All of them were horrible. Some made him aggressive, which he had never been in the past. Well, I got to the point your at now and did research. The final straw was when I took my son to a meeting of parents and children, all the children having diagnoses of childhood bipolar disorder (I'm still not sure what this is or if doctors are even sure what to look for when slapping the label on a child). At any rate, a few of the parents, noticed Sonic playing his handheld videogame, off in his own world, not interacting EXCEPT ON HIS TERMS and asked me if he had a form of autism. He is very verbal and at times can be very friendly, so because of that the psychiatrist insisted he had bipolar, not Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Whatever! We took him to a neuropsychologist and he caught the Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) right away and was puzzled it had taken us so long to get the diagnosis. He has no psychiatric problems so he was weaned off the medications. Nine years later, he is still off medications and is certainly NOT bipolar. He's not even moody. He's sort of an easygoing, even keel kind of kid. My advice is to keep doing your homework and keep looking for the right answer and question every medication. I have found that a few psychiatrists throw diagnoses and medications around like they are both the flavors of the week, then they can turn around and blame YOU when their treatment doesn't work. Psychiatry is an inexact science. Since I'm a psychiatric patient myself I can tell you that I've had more bad psychiatrists than good ones. But, in the end, for both myself and my son it was worth staying the course. It is just incredibly frustrating while going through it. I have learned to question, question, question. And use your mom gut. Good luck! [/QUOTE]
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