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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 282453" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>I am reading a tremendous and scary book called "Madness (Marya Hornbacher)." It is a true story about a female with bipolar I, rapid cycling and the horror of it shocked me. And I also have a mood disorder, but I had no idea it could get THAT bad that you had no idea what you were doing or even had no memory of it. My mood disorder isn't like that and your son probably isn't that bad either, but it's a good book to read. It opened my eyes.</p><p></p><p>The fact is, if you have a mood disorder, you are not going to be stable for your entire life. It can go into remission (a word the book used), but it doesn't go away. So the kids, who are even less mature than adults who can't control this disorder, have good and bad weeks. Their medications work sometimes and then they can be overwhelmed by the disorder and the medications can stop working for a while or need adjustment. Certain medications that work for ADHD make bipolar worse so you have to have a really good psychiatrist who gets that stims are usually bad for bipolar.</p><p></p><p> I've learned that this uneven progress is part of a mood disorder. Living with a mildler form of it, this is certainly the truth for me. I have good and bad weeks--weeks when I'm happy, weeks when I'm down for no reason. Without the right medications, I had episodes of violence. So did the woman in the book. Bipolar is a very serious disorder. I hope doctors are diagnosing it right. I'm starting to wonder if they are diagnosing it too much, but I digress: in my opinion you will have good and bad times, and it's up to you how you decide to deal with the bad times. (((Hugs)))</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 282453, member: 1550"] I am reading a tremendous and scary book called "Madness (Marya Hornbacher)." It is a true story about a female with bipolar I, rapid cycling and the horror of it shocked me. And I also have a mood disorder, but I had no idea it could get THAT bad that you had no idea what you were doing or even had no memory of it. My mood disorder isn't like that and your son probably isn't that bad either, but it's a good book to read. It opened my eyes. The fact is, if you have a mood disorder, you are not going to be stable for your entire life. It can go into remission (a word the book used), but it doesn't go away. So the kids, who are even less mature than adults who can't control this disorder, have good and bad weeks. Their medications work sometimes and then they can be overwhelmed by the disorder and the medications can stop working for a while or need adjustment. Certain medications that work for ADHD make bipolar worse so you have to have a really good psychiatrist who gets that stims are usually bad for bipolar. I've learned that this uneven progress is part of a mood disorder. Living with a mildler form of it, this is certainly the truth for me. I have good and bad weeks--weeks when I'm happy, weeks when I'm down for no reason. Without the right medications, I had episodes of violence. So did the woman in the book. Bipolar is a very serious disorder. I hope doctors are diagnosing it right. I'm starting to wonder if they are diagnosing it too much, but I digress: in my opinion you will have good and bad times, and it's up to you how you decide to deal with the bad times. (((Hugs))) [/QUOTE]
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