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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 153281" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>PHEWWW!! We both got a good night's sleep and I feel much better now.</p><p></p><p>Steely- difficult child is currently on 1200 mg of lithobid, 500 mg depakote er, and seroquel- one 25 mg pill at night, 1/2 in am. The lithium and depakote blood levels checked out. According to therapist, difficult child was cheeking the zyprexa when he was on it- now that is switched to seroquel. These are the tiniest pills. I wonder if it is true. (Yes my difficult child would say something that dumb when manic even if it is a lie.) He will be changing psychiatrists- I think I will ask the tdocs if there is a psychiatrist in their office. First, I'll call psychiatrist at psychiatric hospital because he might be able to just tell me to up the script. I just need a psychiatrist's "word" to have something to fall back on.</p><p></p><p>Witz- that is the way I read your post. I understood where you were coming from- thanks!</p><p></p><p>Janet- last spring my son was on a low dose of prozac for depression; he started acting unstable (2nd year in a row-both in spring), so prozac was doubled. He went on a 1 1/2 hour "spree" that included going into what he thought was an abandoned house (it wasn't) and setting a brush fire. It got him 7 charges, 2 being felonies. My bro started calling everybody in town trying to claim it was my fault because bro wanted custody of difficult child. A GAL was assigned and tried to get social services to find a Residential Treatment Center (RTC) or something. SS said they couldn't find any place in the state because a fire was involved. I muddled through proving that I had tried to get my son adequate treatment, psychiatrist wrote letter stating prozac made difficult child manic- changed diagnosis to BiPolar (BP). Anyway, difficult child was put on probation for one year, the felony charges were deferred to see how he did for this year. </p><p></p><p>The courts are staying involved because difficult child is subject to placement in state dept. of corrections- meaning they take him and either put him in long term detention, state psychiatric hospital, or wherever else they see fit. I, of course, take the position that they have no place that will really help him get adequaate treatment, especially when most of them in the legal system don't even get the mental health part of this. Since he has gotten in trouble twice this spring, he is about 1 inch away from this happening. My position on this- he gets manic every spring- third time in a row now- and the 2 things he has done this year (except what he did to me the other day but only therapist knows that) were so minor in comparisom to the 2 years before that if he hadn't had the legal history from last year, these would warrant only a slap on the hand from the courts. But, I guess they look at it like he should have been perfect all year rather than, look at the improvement. </p><p></p><p>The PO apparently is one that thinks if difficult child is doing this because he's manic, the answer is to commit him to state psychiatric hospital. They clearly don't understand the process of treating BiPolar (BP).- the time to get medications right, learn and implement strategies- after trying to find a therapist who has a clue, etc. Anyway, I wish I had some idea of what they will do to him for punishment when he goes to court in June. This will be for the deferred charges from last year and the 2 charges from this year. It could be anything from what I described above to a short term stay in local detention to more probation (which I truly don't think I can take any more time with this PO) to community service. The judge will make the determination based primarily on what the gal reports, and secondly on what the PO reports. I know the PO's report won't be good no matter what he does or doesn't do. </p><p></p><p>I've learned that the gal does not look into things and tends to believe what ever she hears last before entering court. So, I wait until a few days before court and fax her a written statement that includes any incident, his compliance, any good word, copies of any therapist/psychiatrist statement, appts. scheduled, any clarification of aanything I foresee as being brought up by PO, etc. This has worked twice in the past for getting that info in front of the judge. For some reason, the defense attnys appear too intimidated or unprepared or something to actually present this info, so this is the only way for the judge to know it- otherwise she only hears what the PO wants her to. (Except the one hearing where I had to testify about treatment). </p><p></p><p>Under these circumstances, if I can't get the judge to see in June that this treatment is a work in progress but is helping difficult child and that he is not a risk to the community, he'll probably end up in their system until he's 18, unless they do give custody to my bro which would be a dumb, bad decision, but they could do anything.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 153281, member: 3699"] PHEWWW!! We both got a good night's sleep and I feel much better now. Steely- difficult child is currently on 1200 mg of lithobid, 500 mg depakote er, and seroquel- one 25 mg pill at night, 1/2 in am. The lithium and depakote blood levels checked out. According to therapist, difficult child was cheeking the zyprexa when he was on it- now that is switched to seroquel. These are the tiniest pills. I wonder if it is true. (Yes my difficult child would say something that dumb when manic even if it is a lie.) He will be changing psychiatrists- I think I will ask the tdocs if there is a psychiatrist in their office. First, I'll call psychiatrist at psychiatric hospital because he might be able to just tell me to up the script. I just need a psychiatrist's "word" to have something to fall back on. Witz- that is the way I read your post. I understood where you were coming from- thanks! Janet- last spring my son was on a low dose of prozac for depression; he started acting unstable (2nd year in a row-both in spring), so prozac was doubled. He went on a 1 1/2 hour "spree" that included going into what he thought was an abandoned house (it wasn't) and setting a brush fire. It got him 7 charges, 2 being felonies. My bro started calling everybody in town trying to claim it was my fault because bro wanted custody of difficult child. A GAL was assigned and tried to get social services to find a Residential Treatment Center (RTC) or something. SS said they couldn't find any place in the state because a fire was involved. I muddled through proving that I had tried to get my son adequate treatment, psychiatrist wrote letter stating prozac made difficult child manic- changed diagnosis to BiPolar (BP). Anyway, difficult child was put on probation for one year, the felony charges were deferred to see how he did for this year. The courts are staying involved because difficult child is subject to placement in state dept. of corrections- meaning they take him and either put him in long term detention, state psychiatric hospital, or wherever else they see fit. I, of course, take the position that they have no place that will really help him get adequaate treatment, especially when most of them in the legal system don't even get the mental health part of this. Since he has gotten in trouble twice this spring, he is about 1 inch away from this happening. My position on this- he gets manic every spring- third time in a row now- and the 2 things he has done this year (except what he did to me the other day but only therapist knows that) were so minor in comparisom to the 2 years before that if he hadn't had the legal history from last year, these would warrant only a slap on the hand from the courts. But, I guess they look at it like he should have been perfect all year rather than, look at the improvement. The PO apparently is one that thinks if difficult child is doing this because he's manic, the answer is to commit him to state psychiatric hospital. They clearly don't understand the process of treating BiPolar (BP).- the time to get medications right, learn and implement strategies- after trying to find a therapist who has a clue, etc. Anyway, I wish I had some idea of what they will do to him for punishment when he goes to court in June. This will be for the deferred charges from last year and the 2 charges from this year. It could be anything from what I described above to a short term stay in local detention to more probation (which I truly don't think I can take any more time with this PO) to community service. The judge will make the determination based primarily on what the gal reports, and secondly on what the PO reports. I know the PO's report won't be good no matter what he does or doesn't do. I've learned that the gal does not look into things and tends to believe what ever she hears last before entering court. So, I wait until a few days before court and fax her a written statement that includes any incident, his compliance, any good word, copies of any therapist/psychiatrist statement, appts. scheduled, any clarification of aanything I foresee as being brought up by PO, etc. This has worked twice in the past for getting that info in front of the judge. For some reason, the defense attnys appear too intimidated or unprepared or something to actually present this info, so this is the only way for the judge to know it- otherwise she only hears what the PO wants her to. (Except the one hearing where I had to testify about treatment). Under these circumstances, if I can't get the judge to see in June that this treatment is a work in progress but is helping difficult child and that he is not a risk to the community, he'll probably end up in their system until he's 18, unless they do give custody to my bro which would be a dumb, bad decision, but they could do anything. [/QUOTE]
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