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Finally got a psychiatric appointment for difficult child (and an update)
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<blockquote data-quote="welcometowitsend" data-source="post: 541279" data-attributes="member: 14356"><p>Insane - I will do some research on those assessments to see if it is something that might help difficult child or give us some answers so we can help him. Thank you. </p><p></p><p>I just want to make sure that you all know that I'm not against medications. If difficult child needs medication then he will get them. What scares me is the trial and error process that can sometimes take quite a while. The more research I do the more I think he could be bipolar (he seems to have had a couple of depressive episodes and a couple of manic episode recently - not manic happy but manic angry and now he seems pretty normal). I could be totally off-base but from what I'm reading that's what it looks like to me. husband and I both took an evaluative assessment online re: difficult child - ADHD or Bipolar or Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)? out of 20 questions I scored difficult child bipolar in 16 of them and husband scored him bipolar in 15 of them (independently of one another), the rest were ADHD. This was from the Pennsylvania Child and Welfare Training Program website. Anyway, there is also the possibility of Aspergers and ADHD looking like bipolar because of overlapping symptoms. I guess I'm worried that the wrong medication could send him into a tail-spin and he's already been suicidal so it scares me. </p><p></p><p>Of course, the alternative is that he goes through this again and becomes suicidal again anyway. </p><p></p><p>Could someone wave their magic wand for me and sort this out in the next five minutes? The waiting and wondering is torture.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="welcometowitsend, post: 541279, member: 14356"] Insane - I will do some research on those assessments to see if it is something that might help difficult child or give us some answers so we can help him. Thank you. I just want to make sure that you all know that I'm not against medications. If difficult child needs medication then he will get them. What scares me is the trial and error process that can sometimes take quite a while. The more research I do the more I think he could be bipolar (he seems to have had a couple of depressive episodes and a couple of manic episode recently - not manic happy but manic angry and now he seems pretty normal). I could be totally off-base but from what I'm reading that's what it looks like to me. husband and I both took an evaluative assessment online re: difficult child - ADHD or Bipolar or Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)? out of 20 questions I scored difficult child bipolar in 16 of them and husband scored him bipolar in 15 of them (independently of one another), the rest were ADHD. This was from the Pennsylvania Child and Welfare Training Program website. Anyway, there is also the possibility of Aspergers and ADHD looking like bipolar because of overlapping symptoms. I guess I'm worried that the wrong medication could send him into a tail-spin and he's already been suicidal so it scares me. Of course, the alternative is that he goes through this again and becomes suicidal again anyway. Could someone wave their magic wand for me and sort this out in the next five minutes? The waiting and wondering is torture. [/QUOTE]
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