Thanks for the help.
Here are the answers I know.
She was not abused.
The bipolar was suggested by a Psychiatrist that does not specialize in peds and was seeing her when we thought just anxiety. He has now said she is too difficult for him and we have names of other local peds psychiatrists. The Dissociative Disorder is inpatient at Rush University medication Center in Chicago. She got to the point of violence on antidepressants for us to take her in, but these episodes have been happening since before medications, they have just gotten more so and she is getting bigger. Since she was little she has always had times where she gets a look in her eyes like she isn't there. They are not always violent.
Development was quirky and we found out about the stroke at 7 which explained a lot, but not everything.
She had a complete neuro psychiatric at age 8 at Mayo which gave us Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and told us to get used to the idea of medications. Therapy alone for a while, but then added medications.
At 9 she had a conversin disorder that lasted about a week. It was hysterical blindness. Local eye doctor who is also a peds eye surgeon did MRI and steriods thinking swollen optic nerve and did want to give her higher dose without going to hospital. Since we had been to Mayo, we hopped in the car and headed up there. Their Neuro was even thinking real eye problem and then their eye doctor did a test and figured it out. It was so scary to see what the brain can do. She even took visual field tests 2 days apart and they were the same. She was seeing double and would draw letter with her finger perfectly off the line. She would go through 20 letters and get the same ones wrong in the same way time after time.
She is a little imature for her age, but does alright. She has executive function issues so transitioning is a problem. Eye contact is good.
When she has what we call trouble, she doesn't remember it after and she doesn't seem like she is there. It can be a variety of emotions. The real problem is when she is aggressive.
She has been tested for seizures.
As I told the social worker which made my sister laugh, we have no diagnosed mental health problems, but like any family, we have various issues.
Doctors are all over on if the hole in her brain contributes to the psychiatric issues or not. We think the rewireing that had to be done in there had to have had an effect. She does amazingly well academically which means the brain did a lot of compensating.
What we were told was that the intuniv was a blood pressure medication, but can help with these kinds of behaviors.
Hope this helps. Let me know if you have more questions.
