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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 280044" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>I'm on medications for bipolar, which I have had since very young too. I have been since age 23 and now I"m 55. In my opinion, she is grossly overmedicated. I would be a nutcase and a zombie on all those medications. There are times when one medication made me a zombie OR made me so manic I couldn't sit still or control myself. She's on a slew of them. </p><p>I have a rule. Two psychiatric medications at a time. Believe me, after being on the same two for almost twenty years, I still pass out after taking them. I need them to function, and they do a good job, but if I had to add any, I don't think my mind would be clear. Everyone is different, but I wouldn't want any kid of mine on all those medications. My eyes got wide looking at the list. I'm aware of what they are--I've taken some of them. 100 mgs. of Straterra alone would make me a basket case. That's a lot of antidepressant along with the others...blehhhhhhh. The psychiatrist in my opinion is really pushing it. I think she needs to see a teenage Psychiatrist, but not the one she's currently seeing. And I've been to a lot of psychiatrists in my day. Not all of them are good, so you kind of have to be picky. Unfortunately, as one who also did foster care at one time, I know how bad the system is and how they often blame the parents for a child's illness, even though in my opinion it's ridiculous. Sadly, parents don't understand that they do lose their rights when they put kids in foster care, and the foster parents are usually no better able to deal with the kids then the parents are. There is no special training. I was shocked. We quit--we couldn't handle the way the kids were treated.</p><p>I sympathize with your niece in the care of NJ's foster care system. We adopted a child from NJ and were told he was a nice kid, but cognitively delayed. Well, he was probably brilliant, but he was a budding psychopath who hurt my kids and killed my animals. The Child Welfare System of NJ had no idea what their own child was like and they certainly didn't help him. And they didn't want to hear about it after we told them that he had to be removed from our house. I hope the child is returned to her parents soon!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 280044, member: 1550"] I'm on medications for bipolar, which I have had since very young too. I have been since age 23 and now I"m 55. In my opinion, she is grossly overmedicated. I would be a nutcase and a zombie on all those medications. There are times when one medication made me a zombie OR made me so manic I couldn't sit still or control myself. She's on a slew of them. I have a rule. Two psychiatric medications at a time. Believe me, after being on the same two for almost twenty years, I still pass out after taking them. I need them to function, and they do a good job, but if I had to add any, I don't think my mind would be clear. Everyone is different, but I wouldn't want any kid of mine on all those medications. My eyes got wide looking at the list. I'm aware of what they are--I've taken some of them. 100 mgs. of Straterra alone would make me a basket case. That's a lot of antidepressant along with the others...blehhhhhhh. The psychiatrist in my opinion is really pushing it. I think she needs to see a teenage Psychiatrist, but not the one she's currently seeing. And I've been to a lot of psychiatrists in my day. Not all of them are good, so you kind of have to be picky. Unfortunately, as one who also did foster care at one time, I know how bad the system is and how they often blame the parents for a child's illness, even though in my opinion it's ridiculous. Sadly, parents don't understand that they do lose their rights when they put kids in foster care, and the foster parents are usually no better able to deal with the kids then the parents are. There is no special training. I was shocked. We quit--we couldn't handle the way the kids were treated. I sympathize with your niece in the care of NJ's foster care system. We adopted a child from NJ and were told he was a nice kid, but cognitively delayed. Well, he was probably brilliant, but he was a budding psychopath who hurt my kids and killed my animals. The Child Welfare System of NJ had no idea what their own child was like and they certainly didn't help him. And they didn't want to hear about it after we told them that he had to be removed from our house. I hope the child is returned to her parents soon! [/QUOTE]
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