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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 424455" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>I can give you my own experience. I have a mood disorder and have been put on many medications to try to control it (it took years to find a good combination, but was well worth hanging in there). I would be dead if I wasn't on medications, but, at the same time, if I had continued taking the wrong medications, I also may have killed myself. It's a delicate balance. If your son is worse on Abilify, it's absolutely useless...not helping him.Why take anything that is making his symptoms worse? I've had to wean off medications many times, often at my own insistance, because I felt worse, not better. But as a highly cooperative adult, I was able to stand my ground yet still be willing and desperate to try again.</p><p></p><p>The very first thing I would do for your son, if you can gently talk him into it, is to schedule a neuropsychologist evaluation to see what interesting details about your son he can find. NeuroPsychs intensively test and often find problems that psychiatrists miss. My son went to a psychiatrist for three years, got a diagnosis of bipolar, was put on ten or so medications that didn't work, and all this time I didn't feel like he had bipolar. Finally, when he was obese from the medications and tired all the time and wetting himself every night (also from the medications), I took him for a second opinion. It was a neuropsychologist who tested him for ten hours and, like me, saw no bipolar symptoms. He was puzzled that nobody had caught the autistic spectrum disorder, which is what hub and I had always felt he had. Six years later, he's off all medications and his mood is extremely stable. I guess I'm trying to say, sometimes psychiatrists really don't know what to do and it's not a bad idea to get another perspective/opinion. </p><p></p><p>If your son indeed is bipolar and his father committed suicide (and he thinks about it) Lithium could be your friend. It is the only medication that I've heard of that actually helps suicidal thoughts on top of stabilizing moods. Antidepressants can make one even more suicidal so be careful with that. I know this first hand. The wrong one can make you impulsive and suicidal...a bad combination. </p><p></p><p>Abilify is an anti-psychotic. Many psychiatrists try them for bipolar in place of mood stabilizers. My own opinion is that they don't work as well as staple mood stabilizers...Lithium, Depakote (again jmo I don't l ike Depakote), Lamictal, Tegretal and Trileptal. </p><p></p><p>Good luck and keep us posted.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 424455, member: 1550"] I can give you my own experience. I have a mood disorder and have been put on many medications to try to control it (it took years to find a good combination, but was well worth hanging in there). I would be dead if I wasn't on medications, but, at the same time, if I had continued taking the wrong medications, I also may have killed myself. It's a delicate balance. If your son is worse on Abilify, it's absolutely useless...not helping him.Why take anything that is making his symptoms worse? I've had to wean off medications many times, often at my own insistance, because I felt worse, not better. But as a highly cooperative adult, I was able to stand my ground yet still be willing and desperate to try again. The very first thing I would do for your son, if you can gently talk him into it, is to schedule a neuropsychologist evaluation to see what interesting details about your son he can find. NeuroPsychs intensively test and often find problems that psychiatrists miss. My son went to a psychiatrist for three years, got a diagnosis of bipolar, was put on ten or so medications that didn't work, and all this time I didn't feel like he had bipolar. Finally, when he was obese from the medications and tired all the time and wetting himself every night (also from the medications), I took him for a second opinion. It was a neuropsychologist who tested him for ten hours and, like me, saw no bipolar symptoms. He was puzzled that nobody had caught the autistic spectrum disorder, which is what hub and I had always felt he had. Six years later, he's off all medications and his mood is extremely stable. I guess I'm trying to say, sometimes psychiatrists really don't know what to do and it's not a bad idea to get another perspective/opinion. If your son indeed is bipolar and his father committed suicide (and he thinks about it) Lithium could be your friend. It is the only medication that I've heard of that actually helps suicidal thoughts on top of stabilizing moods. Antidepressants can make one even more suicidal so be careful with that. I know this first hand. The wrong one can make you impulsive and suicidal...a bad combination. Abilify is an anti-psychotic. Many psychiatrists try them for bipolar in place of mood stabilizers. My own opinion is that they don't work as well as staple mood stabilizers...Lithium, Depakote (again jmo I don't l ike Depakote), Lamictal, Tegretal and Trileptal. Good luck and keep us posted. [/QUOTE]
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