Ok so my son had his appointment/ yesterday to discuss his medicine. He was on Straterra for Impulse Control Disorder but he secretly stopped taking it (we later found out obviously)because he said it made him sick......anyway so we go yesterday and she talked to us for a total of 5-6 minutes and tells me that he needs to be on prozac and that he may be Bipolar.............OK so she talked to him for 5-6 minutes and comes to this conclusion??
I have looked at the symp.'s of bipolar and he is not bipolar.
Plus he is not depressed either......he just has a hard time thinking before acting......he does the same wrong things repeatedly like he can't stop himself. he even told us this is why he tried to kill himself is because he wants to stop doing the lying, stealing etc but can't stop .........anyway, I explained to the doctor again about how he spent a week in a psychiatric hospital for children & teens, how had all the tests, etc. and that the b.cert. child psychiatric. there diagnosed him with- Impulse Control Disorder but she said that she thinks my son is depressed and he needs to be on prozac. I asked what she thought he should take for the Impulse Control Disorder since he can't take the starattera because it makes him sick. She said nothing that prozac was what he needed to be on or if I preferred a different anti-depressant. I told her I don't have any information about Prozav or any other anti-depressant and she told me that is what she is there for and she recommends prozac.......ok so my son is diagnosed in Nov. '07 (in a different state) with- impulse Control Disorder after being kept and observed for a week . Then we come home and have to find a local doctor to continue with- the prescription and she has only seen my son twice and only talked to him 5 minutes each time and tells me he is depressed, maybe bipolar and will only prescribe an antidepressant......... I did not get the prozac script filled and will not until I talk to the other psyc. that sees my son each week for an hour for counseling to see what he thinks about what this other psch. is telling us.
I'm so confused!
I have looked at the symp.'s of bipolar and he is not bipolar.
Plus he is not depressed either......he just has a hard time thinking before acting......he does the same wrong things repeatedly like he can't stop himself. he even told us this is why he tried to kill himself is because he wants to stop doing the lying, stealing etc but can't stop .........anyway, I explained to the doctor again about how he spent a week in a psychiatric hospital for children & teens, how had all the tests, etc. and that the b.cert. child psychiatric. there diagnosed him with- Impulse Control Disorder but she said that she thinks my son is depressed and he needs to be on prozac. I asked what she thought he should take for the Impulse Control Disorder since he can't take the starattera because it makes him sick. She said nothing that prozac was what he needed to be on or if I preferred a different anti-depressant. I told her I don't have any information about Prozav or any other anti-depressant and she told me that is what she is there for and she recommends prozac.......ok so my son is diagnosed in Nov. '07 (in a different state) with- impulse Control Disorder after being kept and observed for a week . Then we come home and have to find a local doctor to continue with- the prescription and she has only seen my son twice and only talked to him 5 minutes each time and tells me he is depressed, maybe bipolar and will only prescribe an antidepressant......... I did not get the prozac script filled and will not until I talk to the other psyc. that sees my son each week for an hour for counseling to see what he thinks about what this other psch. is telling us.
I'm so confused!