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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: 631744" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Boy, Janet, good post and so true. I have had a few hypomanic episodes and I loved feeling so good. I did not get psychotic and they did not damage my life. In fact, if I could always be hypo manic, my life would be a lot better because I can focus off the little stuff and do what I'm suppposed to do and I am clearheaded. They tried me on Lithium and Tegretal and I felt so horrible that I wouldn't take it. I felt worse than when I was off of it. In my case, it accentuated the depression in my disorder. I also felt like a robot. But antidepressants REALLY help me. Since psychiatrists are taught that antidepressants can make a bipolar person manic, it is hard to get them to put you on just an antidepressant if you have the bipolar label, thus the change in my label to mood disorder not otherwise specified, which I think is more accurate. </p><p> </p><p>When I was in the hospital for ten weeks, the patients who had full blown mania were so out of it, hyper, violent and babbling that they usually ended up in isolation for their own sake and others until the medication kicked in. I am not sure a lot of people understand full blown mania. Or bipolar for that matter. And that includes psychiatrists, sadly. And that doesn't help our grown kids who may or may not really have bipolar vs. a mood disorder which does not really swing into mania. Having many moods for shorter periods of time can also be borderline personality disorder, especially if the person is in trouble with the law. And often they can have both, as you and I both know, Janet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 631744, member: 1550"] Boy, Janet, good post and so true. I have had a few hypomanic episodes and I loved feeling so good. I did not get psychotic and they did not damage my life. In fact, if I could always be hypo manic, my life would be a lot better because I can focus off the little stuff and do what I'm suppposed to do and I am clearheaded. They tried me on Lithium and Tegretal and I felt so horrible that I wouldn't take it. I felt worse than when I was off of it. In my case, it accentuated the depression in my disorder. I also felt like a robot. But antidepressants REALLY help me. Since psychiatrists are taught that antidepressants can make a bipolar person manic, it is hard to get them to put you on just an antidepressant if you have the bipolar label, thus the change in my label to mood disorder not otherwise specified, which I think is more accurate. When I was in the hospital for ten weeks, the patients who had full blown mania were so out of it, hyper, violent and babbling that they usually ended up in isolation for their own sake and others until the medication kicked in. I am not sure a lot of people understand full blown mania. Or bipolar for that matter. And that includes psychiatrists, sadly. And that doesn't help our grown kids who may or may not really have bipolar vs. a mood disorder which does not really swing into mania. Having many moods for shorter periods of time can also be borderline personality disorder, especially if the person is in trouble with the law. And often they can have both, as you and I both know, Janet. [/QUOTE]
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