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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 57237" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>My advice is (and, yes, I know how you feel) if you aren't happy with the psychiatrist, then hang in there and if your child doesn't improve, get still another opinion. I hate when they hem and haw and say, "ADHD, maybe emerging bipolar" then act like it's bipolar by prescribing Depakote. I want to scream, "Say it, ok???" :smile: I went thru a lot of bad apples with my son. </p><p>Bipolar is not curable, but you CAN live a pretty normal life as an adult with bipolar. Many people who have it, your friends and neighbors, are undetectable because they are stable and taking their medications and not drinking or using other recreational drugs. It is harder to stabilize in some than in others, but it is not hopeless. I know that first hand. I have not had bipolar symptoms for fifteen long, wonderful years. I don't have Bipolar I (I have Bipolar II) and in ten years or so maybe Bipolar II will have a different name, but it is still a raging mood disorder which has caused raging and problems into my adulthood that only the right medications helped. But they DID help. I can live a normal life as long as I stay on them, but it took me a long time to find a combo that worked for me. I had debilitating symptoms in the past. I urge you to think good thoughts and everyone remember that they will know a lot more when your kids grow up than they do now--they are learning of better ways to treat bipolar every day. And God knows if it will still be known as "bipolar!" It used to be manic-depression. We are understanding these things more and more--this is not a death sentence to hang on your child. I do believe in stability, maybe it is easier to stabilize an adult who is willing not to drink than a child who is still growing and dealing with raging hormones. There is hope.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 57237, member: 1550"] My advice is (and, yes, I know how you feel) if you aren't happy with the psychiatrist, then hang in there and if your child doesn't improve, get still another opinion. I hate when they hem and haw and say, "ADHD, maybe emerging bipolar" then act like it's bipolar by prescribing Depakote. I want to scream, "Say it, ok???" [img]:smile:[/img] I went thru a lot of bad apples with my son. Bipolar is not curable, but you CAN live a pretty normal life as an adult with bipolar. Many people who have it, your friends and neighbors, are undetectable because they are stable and taking their medications and not drinking or using other recreational drugs. It is harder to stabilize in some than in others, but it is not hopeless. I know that first hand. I have not had bipolar symptoms for fifteen long, wonderful years. I don't have Bipolar I (I have Bipolar II) and in ten years or so maybe Bipolar II will have a different name, but it is still a raging mood disorder which has caused raging and problems into my adulthood that only the right medications helped. But they DID help. I can live a normal life as long as I stay on them, but it took me a long time to find a combo that worked for me. I had debilitating symptoms in the past. I urge you to think good thoughts and everyone remember that they will know a lot more when your kids grow up than they do now--they are learning of better ways to treat bipolar every day. And God knows if it will still be known as "bipolar!" It used to be manic-depression. We are understanding these things more and more--this is not a death sentence to hang on your child. I do believe in stability, maybe it is easier to stabilize an adult who is willing not to drink than a child who is still growing and dealing with raging hormones. There is hope. [/QUOTE]
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