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<blockquote data-quote="Deni D" data-source="post: 763966" data-attributes="member: 22840"><p>mindinggaps, it's so nice of you to be here to share your experience with medication. I can tell your psychiatrist is careful with medication increases and doesn't just follow the instructions for dosage and increases. My son's longterm psychiatrist when he was young was very good with that too. </p><p></p><p>Things got out of hand for him when he got older and into other stuff when he was trying to fit in with a group who were acting out and trying to impress each other. That eventually led to a number of voluntary and involuntary hospital stays. I was shocked with the quick titration of medications and the variety he received most of the time. Basically if someone is hospitalized and they are only there for a few days there's no way to get them stable anyway. </p><p></p><p>So I'm thinking there are folks here wondering how they can possibly get their loved one from where they are now to where you are now. It takes a longtime of course, and patience with the process, trusting the process. It's a difficult thing for anyone let alone someone who's not able to think right. A couple of things I've learned from my son's experience have been:</p><p>1. Social workers in the behavioral health area for both in patient and out patient treatment at hospitals with a good mental health unit help people with resources. They help people with many things around getting them transportation, insurance, linking them up with other organizations for housing, food and things like that. </p><p>2. This is a touchy one. I am in no way connected with the medical field so take what I'm saying here as just a layperson's experience for the situation particular to my son. He took Abilify when he was young and is taking it again these days. It's an antipsychotic and calms people's brains down so they can think clearer. It's typically used for people with Bipolar disorder who also have Schizoaffective tendencies and for people with Schizophrenia. When he was hospitalized the last time a couple of years ago they started him on a form of Abilify that's a shot. After the first dose he had the second one two weeks later and then after that it was once a month. It helped him with compliance because it was a once a month shot. At the same time he was also trialing and titrating other medications. He's back to taking the Abilify in pill form now. </p><p>3. He still goes to the clinic for behavioral health at the hospital and he likes them there. I would have preferred he switch over to a private psychiatrist. But they give him appointments without a long wait time and deal with the forgetting of appointments and last minute changes he tends to run his life with in general. </p><p>4. Therapy, he didn't like the out patient program, but he complied, because they basically dragged him there a few days a week. He didn't feel he was getting much out of it, he had done it before, and felt uncomfortable there. So I offered to pay for a therapist and let him find one he felt was good. He found a therapist who did virtual appointments. It worked for then because all he had to do was take her call at the appointment time so he didn't miss the appointments. He liked her but stopped seeing her after about 6 months. This is something I bring up to him every once in a while when I can. I feel he should be in therapy regularly but of course it's up to him. </p><p></p><p>mindinggaps, can you think of anything else from the time when you had stopped your medication that helped you to get to deciding to go back to taking your medication? More like outside influences, that could help someone who won't listen to family and maybe doesn't have the history of knowing what the difference is between being stable and not?</p><p></p><p>Thank you so much for your insight.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deni D, post: 763966, member: 22840"] mindinggaps, it's so nice of you to be here to share your experience with medication. I can tell your psychiatrist is careful with medication increases and doesn't just follow the instructions for dosage and increases. My son's longterm psychiatrist when he was young was very good with that too. Things got out of hand for him when he got older and into other stuff when he was trying to fit in with a group who were acting out and trying to impress each other. That eventually led to a number of voluntary and involuntary hospital stays. I was shocked with the quick titration of medications and the variety he received most of the time. Basically if someone is hospitalized and they are only there for a few days there's no way to get them stable anyway. So I'm thinking there are folks here wondering how they can possibly get their loved one from where they are now to where you are now. It takes a longtime of course, and patience with the process, trusting the process. It's a difficult thing for anyone let alone someone who's not able to think right. A couple of things I've learned from my son's experience have been: 1. Social workers in the behavioral health area for both in patient and out patient treatment at hospitals with a good mental health unit help people with resources. They help people with many things around getting them transportation, insurance, linking them up with other organizations for housing, food and things like that. 2. This is a touchy one. I am in no way connected with the medical field so take what I'm saying here as just a layperson's experience for the situation particular to my son. He took Abilify when he was young and is taking it again these days. It's an antipsychotic and calms people's brains down so they can think clearer. It's typically used for people with Bipolar disorder who also have Schizoaffective tendencies and for people with Schizophrenia. When he was hospitalized the last time a couple of years ago they started him on a form of Abilify that's a shot. After the first dose he had the second one two weeks later and then after that it was once a month. It helped him with compliance because it was a once a month shot. At the same time he was also trialing and titrating other medications. He's back to taking the Abilify in pill form now. 3. He still goes to the clinic for behavioral health at the hospital and he likes them there. I would have preferred he switch over to a private psychiatrist. But they give him appointments without a long wait time and deal with the forgetting of appointments and last minute changes he tends to run his life with in general. 4. Therapy, he didn't like the out patient program, but he complied, because they basically dragged him there a few days a week. He didn't feel he was getting much out of it, he had done it before, and felt uncomfortable there. So I offered to pay for a therapist and let him find one he felt was good. He found a therapist who did virtual appointments. It worked for then because all he had to do was take her call at the appointment time so he didn't miss the appointments. He liked her but stopped seeing her after about 6 months. This is something I bring up to him every once in a while when I can. I feel he should be in therapy regularly but of course it's up to him. mindinggaps, can you think of anything else from the time when you had stopped your medication that helped you to get to deciding to go back to taking your medication? More like outside influences, that could help someone who won't listen to family and maybe doesn't have the history of knowing what the difference is between being stable and not? Thank you so much for your insight. [/QUOTE]
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