klmno
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difficult child tells me today that he wants to drink or smoke or something because he doesn't feel the way he should. OK, so I tell him this means the medications are not right yet and we need to discuss this with psychiatrist. I asked if he had been doing anything- he said sneaking and smoking cigarettes sometimes. I say that needs to stop. I asked about pot or anything like that- he said no. (He gets random drug tests through PO so I think this is true.) Drinking- he said he tried a sip of my beer once (which I did not know) and he hated it- it was disgusting. But, he said he talked to his therapist about this and his desire to do something along these lines and that I had been telling him not to ever drink or do drugs because not only is it illegal, and bad for him, but it can mess up his prescription medications. He said his therapist told him not to tell anyone but, a little smoking and drinking would not mess up the effect of his prescription medications.
Here I am again wondering if it is just me not getting with the program or what but I cannot imagine telling a 13yo who has not yet started down this path but is contemplating it and having urges ANYTHING that could be interpreted as "ok, it wouldn't be that bad".
And how do I handle this with difficult child? I'm glad he told me, but what can I say to him that I already haven't said?
Oh- he also told me he hated his life and sometimes thought about taking a bunch of his medications or doing something else very risky so that maybe he would just die. So, now I am wondering, how much of mania was really mania. Could the psychiatrists have been correct the first year when he was diagnosis'd as unipolar depression and been wrong this past year? If that was the case, wood being on mood stabilizers if you really shouldn't be cause side effects that mimic hypomania and/or cycling?
Needless to say, I'll be keeping a very close eye on him-
Here I am again wondering if it is just me not getting with the program or what but I cannot imagine telling a 13yo who has not yet started down this path but is contemplating it and having urges ANYTHING that could be interpreted as "ok, it wouldn't be that bad".
And how do I handle this with difficult child? I'm glad he told me, but what can I say to him that I already haven't said?
Oh- he also told me he hated his life and sometimes thought about taking a bunch of his medications or doing something else very risky so that maybe he would just die. So, now I am wondering, how much of mania was really mania. Could the psychiatrists have been correct the first year when he was diagnosis'd as unipolar depression and been wrong this past year? If that was the case, wood being on mood stabilizers if you really shouldn't be cause side effects that mimic hypomania and/or cycling?
Needless to say, I'll be keeping a very close eye on him-