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Today we went to see the psychiatric doctor and they changed his medication from abilify to depakote. Does anyone have expierence with depakote? I really hope it helps with his outbursts at school, although today was a good day. I hope it doesn't take too long to kick in...:anxious:

Well after meeting with his psychiatrist yesterday, he explained to her that he wanted to die, etc...she admitted him into inpatient phyc hospital, I just got a call from his dr. in there. I was told she doesn't feel he has ADHD, she feels the depression is secondary from the anger/rage/post...

After 2+ exhausting years of increasingly bad behaivor from my now 4 year old son, I turned to the internet for help and came across this site and others like it. I read article upon article and researched mood disorders, ADHD, Autism, everything I could come across until I found an article on...

Ok. difficult child has been awful, more awful since psychiatrist put him on remerom about a month or so ago. He has not been in class for about two weeks. (kicked out of one or another, or else refuses to go to class) Anyway. psychiatrist appointment. today. Stopped the remerom and put him on Abilify. Now, difficult child has a very...

difficult child became increasingly aggressive over the 2 months he was on Risperdal. It came on gradually but steadily until I realized what was going on and told psychiatrist I wanted the Risperdal stopped. The aggressiveness went away. With the Prozac, it started as a slow but steady increase in defiance then...

So thing have been going pretty well... since K got out of the psychiatric hospital. she was trying really hard. We have had a few bouts of violence and episodes. But all in all better! This past or so she has been obsessing about various things. Her normal thing is a party everyday... we have to pretend we...

that may be working for your kid. What do you do when you've tried them all? Dylan's hyperactivity and impulsivity are skyrocketing. We had him 6 full days over the holiday, and every person that came in contact with him said he seemed "10x worse", "ready to jump out of his skin", "couldn't...

difficult child had a therapy session yesterday and another one today. She told counselor she wanted to kill him. She hates coming to the appointments because he tell us to continue to be consistent and tough with her. She screamed at me in the car the whole way there yesterday and I basically ignored her...

I'm a newbie, so forgive me if this has been discussed over and over. My 7 year old (sometimes) difficult child (ADHD, ODD) is on 20mg Daytrana, 25 mg Strattera, two other medications for Crohn's disease, and now his psychiatric wants to put him on Clonidine to help control his anger. I also want to help him control his...

So, like a lot of you, or some of you, I question if some of the medications work at times??? Especially when added on with another medication at or around the same time... We had started Prazosin during K's psychiatric hospital stay when she was trialing a bunch of other medications etc. I was kind of leary about it, it is a...

Our son started lithium in April and things were so improved. We truly thought we found the main key to helping him but knew that he was still going to need a lot of support for focusing, organization etc. Well things were going really well with his mood and stability until Thanksgiving time. He...

We are about 5-6 weeks in. 3 weeks at 18mg. 2.5 weeks at 40mg. Since the increase to 40mg here is what we are seeing: Testicular pain Body aches Flu like symptoms Muscle pain Insomnia Nightmares Headache I am really leaning toward not giving it anymore. These could all be related to something...

Those of you with children in grade school diagnosed with ADD and ODD, what medications have worked best with your children thus far? Can you tell that talk therapy really helps? (Stepmom of Logan 6 yrs old) C

So Geodon is no longer working. Much like every other medication we've tried, it worked for awhile but he always ends up crazy again. He's back to being over-the-top anxious and paranoid and seeing shadows and hearing things and being e-x-t-r-e-m-e-l-y violent at the drop of a hat and constantly...

My 5 year old son had ODD, mood disorder and ADHD. His behavior at school is horrible, rolling on floor, kicking, yelling, hiding under tables, telling the teacher he hates her, the and school. He takes Abilify and Stratera. He is very good at home and plays nicely with the 6 year old...

Just took 2 weeks. I've dialled "9, 1...." but couldn't convince myself to dial the last 1 yet. The day is young, however. I *really* don't want to go for psychiatric hospital admit #3. I told him he was starting the Day Program tomorrow afternoon in the nicest, calmest, yet most happy, enthusiastic way...

Poor M. He's been complaining about his "blue and white pills" for the past couple of weeks now and I was just hoping the side effect was temporary, but it doesn't seem to be going away. It seems the Strattera is making him randomly nauseous and it's even causing vomit to reflux up into his...

Ever since we stopped his Concerta and have tapered off his Intuniv it has been beyond AWFUL!!! I don't know what to do. We cannot live like this another day. The only ADHD medication we haven't tried is Straterra. Should we at this point? It isn't going to solve anything quickly. I am so beyond...

We finally saw difficult child's new psychiatrist yesterday and we have a good place to start working. First thing he wanted to take him off Ritalin because in kiddos with high anxiety that can cause voices or hallunications. WOW! That made him feel somewhat better about what was going on. Now he is on Concerta...

My daughter has not been officially diagnosed with anything other than anxiety but has bipolar tendencies and similarities to oppositional defiance disorder. She is currently on Abilify which seemed to work at first and now doesn't. We would like to have her medicine changed but have to wait...