Juvenile detention- he could get 5 mos plus more.
I couldn't finish my post earlier- I'm having to write it in pieces since he is getting up wandering around. It's ok- a whole lot better than 2 hours ago. Before coming in house he threw sticks in yard, threw something at a window of our house (didn't break anything), spray painted part of a tree in our yard, and tried to fix the portion of fence he tore up (you should see that LOL).
So, I'm trying to get him calmed enough to get get shower and in bed. Homework was a issue because if he doesn't go to detention, he is supposed to go back to school tomorrow and have all this work completed that they gave him to do while suspended. It is a ton of work and there's no way he'll have it all done with everything else going on. That will be another issue at school, I'm sure.
What is a dystonic reaction?
difficult child was having some more side effects from this recent increase in lithobid and it was stopping raging- it did seem to help with sleeplessness. I didn't know it was an AP that he added but he did say lower the lithobid back down and maybe he could stay on this. He something like "he wants to get him off the lithobid and maybe depakote and if he has to add something else afeterwards he will". He tried adding trileptal and lowering lithobid a couple of months ago, but too many signs of mania starting coming back. We put him back where he was, but it seems like he never re-couped. Maybe it was just the bad time of year to be trying a medication change. I can't remember- is trileptol a mood stabilizer or AP? psychiatrist also says he had spoken and consulted again with the psychiatrist at the hospital where I had an MDE done last fall. That made me feel better. She is known to be an authority in this and actually thinks difficult child is cycling but not "true bipolar". (Although- would they be treating him with these medications if they decided he was psychotic or schizophrenic and wouldn't psychiatrist mention this to me if they thought that?)
On a side note- I spoke with the advocate/attny today and he said he can't help much with school unless difficult child is in it because it would cost me a lot of money and they would have more weight in due process by saying "he's not even attending our school now". He said he might be able to get a little compensatory(sp) funds from them, but not much. Well, I'm thinking now that "not much" to him might be a lot to me, Know what I mean?? I'll mull that over. He says he'll help if difficult child goes back to that school- advocacy or due process, whatever. He also mentioned that this sd has a habit of treating people like "they will do whatever they want to" until the see an attny, then they become a little more cooperative.
Then, we had to go see defense attny to prep for tomorrow. I grabbed him quickly last year to try to appeal last year's charges and he had a reasonable fee but I wasn't too impressed with him waiting to the 11th hour of the appeal to look into it and tell me that he thinks difficult child got the best deal he could. So, I've been leary about him now that things are worse. But, after we spoke today for a while, he says "my son's diagnosis is just changing from adhd to BiPolar (BP)" partly because his son had a reaction to stims. I didn't go into the "well, it isn't necessarily BiPolar (BP)", he said his son was 5 yo. I said "God bless you, and prepare yourself, and if you have experienced this, then you know that I am not just a mother trying to make excuses for her son". He said he had seen it in his and he knew it was real. I reminded him that an increase in prozac at the same time difficult child was already losing stability last year is exactly what lead him to a 2 hour crime spree, based on what psychiatrist says and I believe it.
Anyway, I felt sure you guys would appreciate about how it feels when profs (tdocs, attny's, whatever) seem to not really get it and disappoint us in their lack of knowledge and efforts--- until, it seems, they see it in one of their children. HHMM. What a difference in attitude and effort I see in this attny. now. Maybe we shouldn't be looking for credentials- maybe we should be looking for those with difficult child's themselves...
SSHEWW!! Finally got all that out! Now, if difficult child actually can get in the shower...