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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 258099" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>Not exact experience- I don't think. My son had already had neuropsychologist testing and been evaluation'd by a private psychiatrist and been "evaluation'd" at an acute psychiatric hospital and being that depression and anxiety run in my family, we were all in agreement that he had a mood disorder of some sort. Our question with my son was whether or not it is Bipolar- that is still the main question. LOL! Anyway, I took him to a state expert on childhood diagnosis's, she mainly is an expert in areas of autism, mood disorders, and ptsd, I think. I can't say that I think she could never be wrong, just that I don't think I could have found anyone in the state who could give an opinion with any more expertise. Plus, she didn't evaluation difficult child alone- it was an MDE but she lead the team. They reviewed his sd records, testing results, history, psychiatric hospital records, consulted with psychiatrist, and interviewed us for a couple of hours.</p><p></p><p>Ultimately, she stressed that the treatment for what was going on with difficult child was by far more important than any label put on him and she wanted to keep the BiPolar (BP) label off him for now and treat him therapuetically for his specific stressors and coping skills, while keeping him on MS's. She said it was too soon to tell if the MS's were necessary because his system could not tolerate SSRI's and he handled depression and stress and anxiety so poorly or if he was truly BiPolar (BP).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 258099, member: 3699"] Not exact experience- I don't think. My son had already had neuropsychologist testing and been evaluation'd by a private psychiatrist and been "evaluation'd" at an acute psychiatric hospital and being that depression and anxiety run in my family, we were all in agreement that he had a mood disorder of some sort. Our question with my son was whether or not it is Bipolar- that is still the main question. LOL! Anyway, I took him to a state expert on childhood diagnosis's, she mainly is an expert in areas of autism, mood disorders, and ptsd, I think. I can't say that I think she could never be wrong, just that I don't think I could have found anyone in the state who could give an opinion with any more expertise. Plus, she didn't evaluation difficult child alone- it was an MDE but she lead the team. They reviewed his sd records, testing results, history, psychiatric hospital records, consulted with psychiatrist, and interviewed us for a couple of hours. Ultimately, she stressed that the treatment for what was going on with difficult child was by far more important than any label put on him and she wanted to keep the BiPolar (BP) label off him for now and treat him therapuetically for his specific stressors and coping skills, while keeping him on MS's. She said it was too soon to tell if the MS's were necessary because his system could not tolerate SSRI's and he handled depression and stress and anxiety so poorly or if he was truly BiPolar (BP). [/QUOTE]
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