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Prison visit with difficult child 1 didn't go well
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 631675" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Tish, first of all and most importantly, my heart goes out to you. I am so very sorry. I hope your son decides to comply with his medication and not take any other drugs because his life can be good!!! Bipolar is controllable. Never forget that.</p><p></p><p>RE and all, as one with a mood disorder, who was first diagnosed manic/depression (when it was called that...it was many moons ago) I know there are many forms of bipolar. Not all bipolars get those high highs. I never did. Only with Bipolar I, the least common type, do you get those highs. Bipolar II is mostly depression with a few little bumps up. There is mild bipolar, which you go up and down a little bit and are often just plain irritable. There is one more, but I forgot what it is...lol.</p><p></p><p>I was in a psychiatric hospital for ten weeks and saw many extreme bipoolar I's who had gone off their medications. They would share and often the stories were similar...even with the medication (and Lithium was the whole ballgame at the time) they would start to get a little high and then have the urge to party and drink and then get higher and higher until they were psychotic and ended up in the hospital. Some said they were there once a year when the BiPolar (BP) rolled out of control. Often it was perpetrated when the bipolar started drinking and THAT made them get high.</p><p></p><p>One night, when it was about 105 degrees on the closed ward, which had no air conditioning in most of the room but was in a great hospital (I picked it because of it's rep), some bipolar woman was brought in. She sat on the sofa in the community room where I was sitting with a few friends. She was practically catatonic. Couldn't even move. Then suddenly, with no warning, in the midst of the unbearable heat and patients splashing water on our faces, she started belting out one Christmas song after another in a loud, off-key voice and no expression. All we could do is look at one another and laugh. She had no idea we were even reacting.</p><p></p><p>There is no help to this story. No motto. Two days later, back on her lithium she was talking to us just like any normal person. Or maybe it was four days. Didn't take too long. Just wanted to share kind of an interesting bipolar story. But this was bipolar I and she came in psychotic.</p><p></p><p>I wish I could have felt cold enough to sing "White Christmas" on that steamy night!!!! Heck, all the patients had to sleep in the one air conditioned room which was the game room. We gladly slept on sleeping bags on the floor.</p><p></p><p>I learned a lot about serious mental illness during those ten weeks. I was in a teaching hospital before HIPPA and because I was not psychotic and interested and fairly bright the professionals would talk to me about the other patients and tell me what was wrong as well as lend me their psychiatry books. The people who came in manic seemed to be in better shape than us depressives, even if they were hallucinating. The mania seemed to go away much faster than depression once the patients were given their Lithium. I will never forget those ten weeks and what I saw and learned.</p><p></p><p>At the time, I was diagnosed as Bipolar II. This was just sort of a highjack and trivia post for those interested in bipolar I and how it may affect one who has it. Saw my share of schizophrenics as well. And people with schizoaffective (bipolar and schizoprenia).</p><p></p><p>Tish, here are hugs for your hurting mommy heart and hoping, hoping, hoping your son will go back on the medications that made him do so well. There are side effects, but the medications can be changed until something is found that does not give the person side effects. Unfortunately, it is not yet an exact science, but there are MANY medication options for your young man if he is willing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 631675, member: 1550"] Tish, first of all and most importantly, my heart goes out to you. I am so very sorry. I hope your son decides to comply with his medication and not take any other drugs because his life can be good!!! Bipolar is controllable. Never forget that. RE and all, as one with a mood disorder, who was first diagnosed manic/depression (when it was called that...it was many moons ago) I know there are many forms of bipolar. Not all bipolars get those high highs. I never did. Only with Bipolar I, the least common type, do you get those highs. Bipolar II is mostly depression with a few little bumps up. There is mild bipolar, which you go up and down a little bit and are often just plain irritable. There is one more, but I forgot what it is...lol. I was in a psychiatric hospital for ten weeks and saw many extreme bipoolar I's who had gone off their medications. They would share and often the stories were similar...even with the medication (and Lithium was the whole ballgame at the time) they would start to get a little high and then have the urge to party and drink and then get higher and higher until they were psychotic and ended up in the hospital. Some said they were there once a year when the BiPolar (BP) rolled out of control. Often it was perpetrated when the bipolar started drinking and THAT made them get high. One night, when it was about 105 degrees on the closed ward, which had no air conditioning in most of the room but was in a great hospital (I picked it because of it's rep), some bipolar woman was brought in. She sat on the sofa in the community room where I was sitting with a few friends. She was practically catatonic. Couldn't even move. Then suddenly, with no warning, in the midst of the unbearable heat and patients splashing water on our faces, she started belting out one Christmas song after another in a loud, off-key voice and no expression. All we could do is look at one another and laugh. She had no idea we were even reacting. There is no help to this story. No motto. Two days later, back on her lithium she was talking to us just like any normal person. Or maybe it was four days. Didn't take too long. Just wanted to share kind of an interesting bipolar story. But this was bipolar I and she came in psychotic. I wish I could have felt cold enough to sing "White Christmas" on that steamy night!!!! Heck, all the patients had to sleep in the one air conditioned room which was the game room. We gladly slept on sleeping bags on the floor. I learned a lot about serious mental illness during those ten weeks. I was in a teaching hospital before HIPPA and because I was not psychotic and interested and fairly bright the professionals would talk to me about the other patients and tell me what was wrong as well as lend me their psychiatry books. The people who came in manic seemed to be in better shape than us depressives, even if they were hallucinating. The mania seemed to go away much faster than depression once the patients were given their Lithium. I will never forget those ten weeks and what I saw and learned. At the time, I was diagnosed as Bipolar II. This was just sort of a highjack and trivia post for those interested in bipolar I and how it may affect one who has it. Saw my share of schizophrenics as well. And people with schizoaffective (bipolar and schizoprenia). Tish, here are hugs for your hurting mommy heart and hoping, hoping, hoping your son will go back on the medications that made him do so well. There are side effects, but the medications can be changed until something is found that does not give the person side effects. Unfortunately, it is not yet an exact science, but there are MANY medication options for your young man if he is willing. [/QUOTE]
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