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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 158232" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>Thanks, Susie! I will do a little research and see if I can develop a "plan" on my own. Unfortunately, both the lithobid and depakote are extended release. I'm starting to see a little pattern- first, there is a little hypomania, so he wants to keep it going and stay up all (or half) the night to be on the computer or play games. So, he cheeks the medications, if he is caught, there is raging. If he is not caught, he sets himself up for going into mania. I think it might be worse on the days that he realizes are at the end of "his time off" from school and he is "trying to make the most of it". I'm going to talk to him later today about what each medication is doing for him- it might not help, but I don't think it will hurt.</p><p></p><p>Oh- and <em>I think</em> (not positive) that the hypomania follows depression. Or- the nagging doubt- depression leads to an "I don't care about anything" attitude that spirals out of control until his actions are more of an "indirect suicide" attempt.</p><p></p><p>Yep- we very well are looking at more than typical outpatient maintenance. The question is what is available, how do we get it, who's going to pay for it, how far away is it (in this state or out), and is it a place where he will learn how to do more wrong than right. This is part of the reason I wanted to try partial hospitalization first. But, none of it can be gauged accurately if he is cheeking medications. If he went to day treatment, maybe they could give him the medications there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 158232, member: 3699"] Thanks, Susie! I will do a little research and see if I can develop a "plan" on my own. Unfortunately, both the lithobid and depakote are extended release. I'm starting to see a little pattern- first, there is a little hypomania, so he wants to keep it going and stay up all (or half) the night to be on the computer or play games. So, he cheeks the medications, if he is caught, there is raging. If he is not caught, he sets himself up for going into mania. I think it might be worse on the days that he realizes are at the end of "his time off" from school and he is "trying to make the most of it". I'm going to talk to him later today about what each medication is doing for him- it might not help, but I don't think it will hurt. Oh- and [I]I think[/I] (not positive) that the hypomania follows depression. Or- the nagging doubt- depression leads to an "I don't care about anything" attitude that spirals out of control until his actions are more of an "indirect suicide" attempt. Yep- we very well are looking at more than typical outpatient maintenance. The question is what is available, how do we get it, who's going to pay for it, how far away is it (in this state or out), and is it a place where he will learn how to do more wrong than right. This is part of the reason I wanted to try partial hospitalization first. But, none of it can be gauged accurately if he is cheeking medications. If he went to day treatment, maybe they could give him the medications there. [/QUOTE]
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