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difficult child crashed. On hospital, not sure if neuro or mental crisis
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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 636867" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>It has been helpful that, as messed up as he is, I have been able to see him today. He may have not been too coherent and seeing him in the state he is, is scary, but at least he is breathing. I just came from the hospital after sitting and watching him breath quite some time. He was given benzoes and they knocked him out, he tends to be very sensitive to those. Yesterday I couldn't drive to see him. I had something I really needed to be at and his life wasn't in danger. And husband was able to take time off and go, so it was only logical I didn't, but I too was really a mess because of that. But now I have at least seen him.</p><p></p><p>Even before benzoes he was really sleepy and also somehow very slow. Doctors say, that it can be anti-psychotics. Those first shots they give to stop the onset of psychosis are not gentle nor is it process of gradual increase. I haven't have time to really research what he was given, but I understand they are heavy duty medications with heavy side effects.</p><p></p><p>I'm not sure what of the options I'm most afraid of. No one wants their kid to have a brain injury, but that is an option I can comprehend. Something we have been afraid, but also a risk we knew we were taking letting our kids play sports, or to live, to be frank. And if MRI is clean, most get better.</p><p></p><p>Psychosis is huge, or not so much a psychosis, but the schizophrenia. I know difficult child is in right age for that. And while I know that most can live quite okayish life with medications, and while I know surprisingly many go to remission or even get better, I have to admit it is a horror for me. Losing someone you love a little by little to the illness, side effects of the medication and every outbreak of psychosis destroying a little more for good. Losing my brilliant and talented son to something like that. It is something I'm not ready to look eye to eye.</p><p></p><p>Dissociation is the evil we know, have gotten used to. But something this extreme would still be new terrain. And while we have had two years to get used to the idea of mentally ill son, and having to face the fuller, and more gruesome, picture little by little, this is still something else. Something like this, it is actually severely disabling, not some little mental health issue he can live through.</p><p></p><p>Of course it can also be some combination of the two, being something totally else is unlikely. And whatever it is, it is and we have to live with that.</p><p></p><p>We do, he does.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 636867, member: 14557"] It has been helpful that, as messed up as he is, I have been able to see him today. He may have not been too coherent and seeing him in the state he is, is scary, but at least he is breathing. I just came from the hospital after sitting and watching him breath quite some time. He was given benzoes and they knocked him out, he tends to be very sensitive to those. Yesterday I couldn't drive to see him. I had something I really needed to be at and his life wasn't in danger. And husband was able to take time off and go, so it was only logical I didn't, but I too was really a mess because of that. But now I have at least seen him. Even before benzoes he was really sleepy and also somehow very slow. Doctors say, that it can be anti-psychotics. Those first shots they give to stop the onset of psychosis are not gentle nor is it process of gradual increase. I haven't have time to really research what he was given, but I understand they are heavy duty medications with heavy side effects. I'm not sure what of the options I'm most afraid of. No one wants their kid to have a brain injury, but that is an option I can comprehend. Something we have been afraid, but also a risk we knew we were taking letting our kids play sports, or to live, to be frank. And if MRI is clean, most get better. Psychosis is huge, or not so much a psychosis, but the schizophrenia. I know difficult child is in right age for that. And while I know that most can live quite okayish life with medications, and while I know surprisingly many go to remission or even get better, I have to admit it is a horror for me. Losing someone you love a little by little to the illness, side effects of the medication and every outbreak of psychosis destroying a little more for good. Losing my brilliant and talented son to something like that. It is something I'm not ready to look eye to eye. Dissociation is the evil we know, have gotten used to. But something this extreme would still be new terrain. And while we have had two years to get used to the idea of mentally ill son, and having to face the fuller, and more gruesome, picture little by little, this is still something else. Something like this, it is actually severely disabling, not some little mental health issue he can live through. Of course it can also be some combination of the two, being something totally else is unlikely. And whatever it is, it is and we have to live with that. We do, he does. [/QUOTE]
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