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<blockquote data-quote="oceans" data-source="post: 37362" data-attributes="member: 2687"><p>It seems to me that it is important to find out why he is not thinking clearly. For instance, my difficult child was not thinking clearly and had problems with concentration. He was diagnosed with ADD when he was 11 or 12. He was put on stimulants, but they never did correct his thinking. He had a partial response and then they stopped working. Increasing the dose or switching to a different one did not help and in many cases made things much, much worse. Move forward a few years. Tests were done at psychiatric hospital for his thinking. They still felt he had a problem with that going on. They thought the biggest problem was his mood, but his thinking was right up there as well.</p><p></p><p>When he got transferred to the state hospital, they also noticed problems with his thinking. They also noticed that in his history it said the stimulants never helped even though he had ADD symptoms and had been diagnosed as such.</p><p></p><p>When the new medication lifted his mood and he was doing better, he still had a thining problem but by then he was able to describe it to the psychiatrist. He was never able to do that before. It turned out that the Zyprexa corrected his thinking problems. I know you have tried Zyprexa and it did not help. </p><p></p><p>We still think difficult child might have add. He still has trouble concentrating, but his mood is stable and his thinking is much better. He tried Risperdal without a mood stabilizer and it helped a little but not for long. It did not correct his thinking to the degree we have right now with both the mood stabilizer and the AP in place. Now that his mood is stable, I am wondering if a stimulant might actually work. I don't know. My difficult child really does not have a diagnoses right now either.</p><p></p><p>The psychiatrist and therapist were also thinking autistic spectrum with my son, but we went to a place that specializes in autism and they said that he is not on the spectrum, so we ruled that out, </p><p></p><p>I think that for your difficult child, he would benefit greatly from that neuropsychologist evaluation that you have been trying to get. Can't you call and set one up on your own? I am actually wondering if that is something I should do for my difficult child to get a better understanding of what it wrong, even though he is doing better now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="oceans, post: 37362, member: 2687"] It seems to me that it is important to find out why he is not thinking clearly. For instance, my difficult child was not thinking clearly and had problems with concentration. He was diagnosed with ADD when he was 11 or 12. He was put on stimulants, but they never did correct his thinking. He had a partial response and then they stopped working. Increasing the dose or switching to a different one did not help and in many cases made things much, much worse. Move forward a few years. Tests were done at psychiatric hospital for his thinking. They still felt he had a problem with that going on. They thought the biggest problem was his mood, but his thinking was right up there as well. When he got transferred to the state hospital, they also noticed problems with his thinking. They also noticed that in his history it said the stimulants never helped even though he had ADD symptoms and had been diagnosed as such. When the new medication lifted his mood and he was doing better, he still had a thining problem but by then he was able to describe it to the psychiatrist. He was never able to do that before. It turned out that the Zyprexa corrected his thinking problems. I know you have tried Zyprexa and it did not help. We still think difficult child might have add. He still has trouble concentrating, but his mood is stable and his thinking is much better. He tried Risperdal without a mood stabilizer and it helped a little but not for long. It did not correct his thinking to the degree we have right now with both the mood stabilizer and the AP in place. Now that his mood is stable, I am wondering if a stimulant might actually work. I don't know. My difficult child really does not have a diagnoses right now either. The psychiatrist and therapist were also thinking autistic spectrum with my son, but we went to a place that specializes in autism and they said that he is not on the spectrum, so we ruled that out, I think that for your difficult child, he would benefit greatly from that neuropsychologist evaluation that you have been trying to get. Can't you call and set one up on your own? I am actually wondering if that is something I should do for my difficult child to get a better understanding of what it wrong, even though he is doing better now. [/QUOTE]
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