Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New profile posts
Latest activity
Internet Search
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Parent Support Forums
Parent Emeritus
He's living in the basement
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="in a daze" data-source="post: 647166" data-attributes="member: 15832"><p>Thanks, Tanya. Yes, exhausting. I know you can relate. </p><p></p><p>HM...He came down with depression sophomore year HS. He got through with much hand holding and a tutor. He snapped out of it spring of his senior year....all of a sudden the friends were calling, he was traveling</p><p> to Peoria because his HS went to state etc. Despite his academic difficulties he was quite intellectual and a gifted writer, so we decided to send him to a private junior college. He managed to finish in 5 semesters and he transferred to a four year.</p><p></p><p>The depression was on and off and accelerated when he fell into a crowd at home who was heavily into drinking. He has a breakdown his last semester away which was fueled by alcohol and adderal abuse and he had to come home. He managed to finish the last four classes at a local state university and tutor support for the last two as they were college algebra and stats . </p><p></p><p>I would have the following conversation with him once a semester:</p><p>"I'm going to drop xyz class"</p><p>"No, give it a chance, study harder, meet with prof, etc."</p><p>No, I'm going to drop it."</p><p></p><p>So this, HM, is how he got through college and managed to get his degree but it took him 7 years. </p><p></p><p>We took him to a university p doctor who told him he was bipolar and started him on mood stabilizers. 2 psychiatrists and 4 hospitalization later was given neuropsychiatric exam and the diagnosis was changed back to major depression.</p><p></p><p>Yes, loves to go to therapy and takes his medications for the most part. This was not the case when he was younger.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="in a daze, post: 647166, member: 15832"] Thanks, Tanya. Yes, exhausting. I know you can relate. HM...He came down with depression sophomore year HS. He got through with much hand holding and a tutor. He snapped out of it spring of his senior year....all of a sudden the friends were calling, he was traveling to Peoria because his HS went to state etc. Despite his academic difficulties he was quite intellectual and a gifted writer, so we decided to send him to a private junior college. He managed to finish in 5 semesters and he transferred to a four year. The depression was on and off and accelerated when he fell into a crowd at home who was heavily into drinking. He has a breakdown his last semester away which was fueled by alcohol and adderal abuse and he had to come home. He managed to finish the last four classes at a local state university and tutor support for the last two as they were college algebra and stats . I would have the following conversation with him once a semester: "I'm going to drop xyz class" "No, give it a chance, study harder, meet with prof, etc." No, I'm going to drop it." So this, HM, is how he got through college and managed to get his degree but it took him 7 years. We took him to a university p doctor who told him he was bipolar and started him on mood stabilizers. 2 psychiatrists and 4 hospitalization later was given neuropsychiatric exam and the diagnosis was changed back to major depression. Yes, loves to go to therapy and takes his medications for the most part. This was not the case when he was younger. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Parent Support Forums
Parent Emeritus
He's living in the basement
Top