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<blockquote data-quote="HMBgal" data-source="post: 696667" data-attributes="member: 13260"><p>My grandson started Abilify when his psychiatrist added Disruptive Moood Dysregulation Disorder to the ADHD/Anxiety diagnoses, which is a recent addition to the DSM to find a diagnostic place for kids that have bi-polar-like symptoms, but don't always mature into true bi-polar. It tries to define that "something else" that doesn't quite fit into other diagnoses. My grandson's problems are across every environment, not just home. Near constant irritability seems to be an identifying hallmark, but you need to go out and do some research. In any case, I'm not a label-seeker, but in the psychiatry world (and this is only my experience with my family), certain diagnoses open up other medication and treatment options. The Abilify has made grandson gain a good bit of weight, but he was so scrawny (years of stimulants and not wanting to eat? We don't really know) so we have the confounding variables of going off stimulants and going on Ability (generic aririprazole in our case) and Intuniv with several months of each other. All I know is he wants to eat all the time, where he never did before, even before stimulants. He has also grown much taller, too. I think it has helped his irritability, but that comes and goes, so hard to tell.</p><p></p><p>As to your other questions about bipolar being triggered by events, I'm sure someone else with experience will try and help you with that. And problems with Abilify seem to somewhat dose-dependent in my research. It's like so many medications: they affect different people differently.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HMBgal, post: 696667, member: 13260"] My grandson started Abilify when his psychiatrist added Disruptive Moood Dysregulation Disorder to the ADHD/Anxiety diagnoses, which is a recent addition to the DSM to find a diagnostic place for kids that have bi-polar-like symptoms, but don't always mature into true bi-polar. It tries to define that "something else" that doesn't quite fit into other diagnoses. My grandson's problems are across every environment, not just home. Near constant irritability seems to be an identifying hallmark, but you need to go out and do some research. In any case, I'm not a label-seeker, but in the psychiatry world (and this is only my experience with my family), certain diagnoses open up other medication and treatment options. The Abilify has made grandson gain a good bit of weight, but he was so scrawny (years of stimulants and not wanting to eat? We don't really know) so we have the confounding variables of going off stimulants and going on Ability (generic aririprazole in our case) and Intuniv with several months of each other. All I know is he wants to eat all the time, where he never did before, even before stimulants. He has also grown much taller, too. I think it has helped his irritability, but that comes and goes, so hard to tell. As to your other questions about bipolar being triggered by events, I'm sure someone else with experience will try and help you with that. And problems with Abilify seem to somewhat dose-dependent in my research. It's like so many medications: they affect different people differently. [/QUOTE]
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