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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 302313" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Sounds like a good appointment. None of us like the therapist, psychiatrist, medication wheel but it is what will help our kids.</p><p></p><p>Has the doctor suggested a mood stabilizer or have you asked about one? If mood disorder of any type is the diagnosis then the child should NOT be on an antidepressant and an atypical antipsychotic. The child should be on a first line mood stabilizer and the atyp. antipsychotic. </p><p></p><p>There is a board who certifies child and adolescent psychiatrists. This is THEIR guideline, NOT ours here. Sadly many many many docs rx the SSRI and SNRI medications instead of mood stabilizers. The SSRI and SNRI medications can make things HUGELY worse and even then lots of docs want to increase them.</p><p></p><p>I have long been stymied by this. If this was MY child I would research mood stabilizers and then search for the protocol for treating Early Onset Bipolar and insist on using that. The Bipolar Child will have the protocol and it is well explained in the book.</p><p></p><p>This site seems very good at explaining things: <a href="http://www.kristen-mcclure-therapist.com/bipolarmedications.html" target="_blank">http://www.kristen-mcclure-therapist.com/bipolarmedications.html</a> It has descriptions of the mood stabilizers and it tells how the guidelines were established.</p><p></p><p>Hopefully this helps.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 302313, member: 1233"] Sounds like a good appointment. None of us like the therapist, psychiatrist, medication wheel but it is what will help our kids. Has the doctor suggested a mood stabilizer or have you asked about one? If mood disorder of any type is the diagnosis then the child should NOT be on an antidepressant and an atypical antipsychotic. The child should be on a first line mood stabilizer and the atyp. antipsychotic. There is a board who certifies child and adolescent psychiatrists. This is THEIR guideline, NOT ours here. Sadly many many many docs rx the SSRI and SNRI medications instead of mood stabilizers. The SSRI and SNRI medications can make things HUGELY worse and even then lots of docs want to increase them. I have long been stymied by this. If this was MY child I would research mood stabilizers and then search for the protocol for treating Early Onset Bipolar and insist on using that. The Bipolar Child will have the protocol and it is well explained in the book. This site seems very good at explaining things: [url]http://www.kristen-mcclure-therapist.com/bipolarmedications.html[/url] It has descriptions of the mood stabilizers and it tells how the guidelines were established. Hopefully this helps. [/QUOTE]
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