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It's Been So Long - But Nothing is Better
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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 454872" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>It is time to start researching bipolar and if nothing else pushing the current psychiatrist to actually medicate it. haldol is a really strange medication to give a child wtih a bipolar diagnosis esp if you are giving no other medications. PUSH HARD for mood stabiilizers. REFUSE to give ANY antidepressants - they make people with bipolar much much worse. Get a copy of the Bipolar Child by Papalous and read it. Take the section about medications to the psychiatrist and insist she follow it. Have a fit at her if needed. </p><p></p><p>Your son is NOT SAFE to be in your home. I would start calling the police when he was physically violent and insisting on a transfer to a psychiatric hospital. If he wants to hit you, wrestle a phone from you when you are so sick, then he is a HUGE danger. You need to be SURE that he is NEVER in a room alone with your daughter. I know how hard it is - been there done that with my own difficult child.</p><p></p><p>This has to be taken to the next level and that is psychiatric hospital admission when violent. You may even want to talk to the psychiatrist about admitting to get him stabilized on medications so that he is not a danger to you or anyone else. Given your fragility, it would be very easy for him to do serious harm to you. </p><p></p><p>The psychiatric hospital won't always admit him when you have him taken there. You have to keep pushing it so that you have a paper trail to use to justify getting the courts and social services involved. </p><p></p><p>Be VERY aware that if he hurts you or daughter or anyone else that you CAN file charges against him - domestic violence, etc... You can also push for therapeutic foster care for him - where he would be placed with someone who maybe could help him or at least he wouldn't be in your home as a danger to the rest of you.</p><p></p><p>IF he hurts your daughter, YOU AND husband could be charged with child abuse/neglect for "letting" it happen. So you NEED a written safety plan to keep everyone safe, with procedures for everyday and for when he is in a rage - who does what, when, and where each person is to go. THIS is what will show child protection that you are doing everything you can to keep everyone safe. </p><p></p><p>I am so very sorry things are this rough.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 454872, member: 1233"] It is time to start researching bipolar and if nothing else pushing the current psychiatrist to actually medicate it. haldol is a really strange medication to give a child wtih a bipolar diagnosis esp if you are giving no other medications. PUSH HARD for mood stabiilizers. REFUSE to give ANY antidepressants - they make people with bipolar much much worse. Get a copy of the Bipolar Child by Papalous and read it. Take the section about medications to the psychiatrist and insist she follow it. Have a fit at her if needed. Your son is NOT SAFE to be in your home. I would start calling the police when he was physically violent and insisting on a transfer to a psychiatric hospital. If he wants to hit you, wrestle a phone from you when you are so sick, then he is a HUGE danger. You need to be SURE that he is NEVER in a room alone with your daughter. I know how hard it is - been there done that with my own difficult child. This has to be taken to the next level and that is psychiatric hospital admission when violent. You may even want to talk to the psychiatrist about admitting to get him stabilized on medications so that he is not a danger to you or anyone else. Given your fragility, it would be very easy for him to do serious harm to you. The psychiatric hospital won't always admit him when you have him taken there. You have to keep pushing it so that you have a paper trail to use to justify getting the courts and social services involved. Be VERY aware that if he hurts you or daughter or anyone else that you CAN file charges against him - domestic violence, etc... You can also push for therapeutic foster care for him - where he would be placed with someone who maybe could help him or at least he wouldn't be in your home as a danger to the rest of you. IF he hurts your daughter, YOU AND husband could be charged with child abuse/neglect for "letting" it happen. So you NEED a written safety plan to keep everyone safe, with procedures for everyday and for when he is in a rage - who does what, when, and where each person is to go. THIS is what will show child protection that you are doing everything you can to keep everyone safe. I am so very sorry things are this rough. [/QUOTE]
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