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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 469702" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>You NEED a new psychiatrist. Go and get a copy of The Bipolar Child by Papalous at the bookstore. ASAP, in my opinion. The psychiatrist is NUTS. One of the HALLMARKS of bipolar in kids is that they cycle super fast. I think it is called ultra radian and ultra ultra radian to describe how fast they cycle. Some kids can cycle in 15min or less. This is early onset bipolar. Or it sure sounds like it.</p><p></p><p>The LAST thing that yoru child should have is an antidepressant. he needs medications for bipolar - and stimulants and antidepressants will cause him to cycle more.</p><p></p><p>The book explains the disorder very well, esp how it presents in children. It also has an excellent section on medications - what to do and what not to, including the medication protocol approved by the board of child and adolescent psychiatrists, which calls for mood stabilizers (one or even two if one is not enough) and antipsychotics (seroquel, risperidone, abilify) to be used until the child's moods are stable. MANY children and adults with bipolar find that their adhd, anxiety, etc.... problems are gone once they are on the right medications. If the symptoms persist then SMALL amounts of stimulants, antidepressants, etc.... can be trialed to see if they help. </p><p></p><p>To say that a child's moods cycle to rapidly to be bipolar is just. plain. nuts. Or stupid. Not sure which.</p><p></p><p>PLEASE read the book, esp the parts about medications and what bipolar looks like in kids. Then, if the doctor won't help, get a new one. PUSH the doctor to try the medication protocol for your son. Be aware that it takes time to get mood stabilizers up to a therapeutic level in the body, and once they are at that level it takes 6 weeks to get the full effects. But if he stays on stimulants and antidepressants there isn't much hope that his moods will ever be stable. Not unless this is something terribly different, but it sounds a LOT like bipolar.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 469702, member: 1233"] You NEED a new psychiatrist. Go and get a copy of The Bipolar Child by Papalous at the bookstore. ASAP, in my opinion. The psychiatrist is NUTS. One of the HALLMARKS of bipolar in kids is that they cycle super fast. I think it is called ultra radian and ultra ultra radian to describe how fast they cycle. Some kids can cycle in 15min or less. This is early onset bipolar. Or it sure sounds like it. The LAST thing that yoru child should have is an antidepressant. he needs medications for bipolar - and stimulants and antidepressants will cause him to cycle more. The book explains the disorder very well, esp how it presents in children. It also has an excellent section on medications - what to do and what not to, including the medication protocol approved by the board of child and adolescent psychiatrists, which calls for mood stabilizers (one or even two if one is not enough) and antipsychotics (seroquel, risperidone, abilify) to be used until the child's moods are stable. MANY children and adults with bipolar find that their adhd, anxiety, etc.... problems are gone once they are on the right medications. If the symptoms persist then SMALL amounts of stimulants, antidepressants, etc.... can be trialed to see if they help. To say that a child's moods cycle to rapidly to be bipolar is just. plain. nuts. Or stupid. Not sure which. PLEASE read the book, esp the parts about medications and what bipolar looks like in kids. Then, if the doctor won't help, get a new one. PUSH the doctor to try the medication protocol for your son. Be aware that it takes time to get mood stabilizers up to a therapeutic level in the body, and once they are at that level it takes 6 weeks to get the full effects. But if he stays on stimulants and antidepressants there isn't much hope that his moods will ever be stable. Not unless this is something terribly different, but it sounds a LOT like bipolar. [/QUOTE]
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