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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 151699" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>difficult child is home- making cookies right now to include in his grandmother's gift basket (her b-day is a couple of days away from Mother's Day). The psychiatrist at psychiatric hospital wants a blood test for lithium levels and thyroid done again within one week- that actually makes me feel better. difficult child is like his grandmother in the sense that she has very strong (sometimes very bad) reactions to normal doses of medications sometimes, so if his levels are fluctuating, this might have a lot to do with him being jittery, maybe biting nails and other things that I though indicated cycling. </p><p></p><p>The apartment statements- well, psychiatrist knows the jest of these things and this helped get the BiPolar (BP) diagnosis. I try to watch for signs of hallucinations and even split-personality (which cycling almost seems that way sometimes). I'm not sure where the exact line is for delusional, but I hope the AP can help with it. So far, it <em>appears</em> to be more like his "mood" took over and he is speaking and acting based on the overwhelming mood, with no sense of rationality, when this happens. Of course, it is always during the unstable periods and completely goes away in satble periods. I do worry about it, though, especially with some of the erratic things he has done in the past. Let's just say, I keep an eye out for packed suitcaases and bus tickets, or whatever might be an indication of a plan for the most recent "strange" thing he has mentioned.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 151699, member: 3699"] difficult child is home- making cookies right now to include in his grandmother's gift basket (her b-day is a couple of days away from Mother's Day). The psychiatrist at psychiatric hospital wants a blood test for lithium levels and thyroid done again within one week- that actually makes me feel better. difficult child is like his grandmother in the sense that she has very strong (sometimes very bad) reactions to normal doses of medications sometimes, so if his levels are fluctuating, this might have a lot to do with him being jittery, maybe biting nails and other things that I though indicated cycling. The apartment statements- well, psychiatrist knows the jest of these things and this helped get the BiPolar (BP) diagnosis. I try to watch for signs of hallucinations and even split-personality (which cycling almost seems that way sometimes). I'm not sure where the exact line is for delusional, but I hope the AP can help with it. So far, it [I]appears[/I] to be more like his "mood" took over and he is speaking and acting based on the overwhelming mood, with no sense of rationality, when this happens. Of course, it is always during the unstable periods and completely goes away in satble periods. I do worry about it, though, especially with some of the erratic things he has done in the past. Let's just say, I keep an eye out for packed suitcaases and bus tickets, or whatever might be an indication of a plan for the most recent "strange" thing he has mentioned. [/QUOTE]
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