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Update- difficult child still in hospital
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<blockquote data-quote="Sara PA" data-source="post: 17494" data-attributes="member: 1498"><p>Remember that antidepressants can cause or worsen bipolar symptoms. That doesn't mean that they can just trigger mania, which I think everyone knows by now. It means that they can cause <em>cycling</em> and cycling includes depressive phases. That's how antidepressants can make depression worse -- it can cause cycling into depressive phases. And also remember that according to the DSM, rapid cycling is defined by four switches <em>a year</em>. We hear so much about kids who are ultra rapid/ultradian cyclers or in mixed phases that it's easy to forget that weeks or months in a depressive state can be a bipolar phase.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sara PA, post: 17494, member: 1498"] Remember that antidepressants can cause or worsen bipolar symptoms. That doesn't mean that they can just trigger mania, which I think everyone knows by now. It means that they can cause [i]cycling[/i] and cycling includes depressive phases. That's how antidepressants can make depression worse -- it can cause cycling into depressive phases. And also remember that according to the DSM, rapid cycling is defined by four switches [i]a year[/i]. We hear so much about kids who are ultra rapid/ultradian cyclers or in mixed phases that it's easy to forget that weeks or months in a depressive state can be a bipolar phase. [/QUOTE]
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