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New bipolar diagnosis--will lithium improve conduct disorder?
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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 449089" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>Hi, welcome to the board. I see your son is 14. That is a very difficult age with boys. It is when my son really took his nosedive into the teen years from hell. Starting him on lithium seems a good choice since he seems to be exhibiting some manic behavior but have they considered any sort of anti-psychotic to help with the distorted thinking? </p><p></p><p>If your son is or has started with some sort of drug use or selling or passing around pot, well, he and his friends are distributing and he can be arrested for a felony. Even if all they do is pool their money to buy a larger bag and then split the proceeds, its distributing. If he is planning on robbing someone to start a larger drug ring...you have bigger issues. It does sound like he is bordering on the conduct disorder diagnosis along with a mood disorder. Whether or not dealing with the mood component will help with the conduct problems is yet to be seen. </p><p></p><p>If I had a 14 year old boy who was suspected of having a mood disorder and/or a conduct disorder and was smoking pot AND he was hanging around kids who also smoked pot... I would ban him from those friends. I know this is difficult. I have been there. I had a son in those very same circumstances. We had to keep him attached to our hips constantly. He went nowhere alone. He was always with one of his parents. At one point his father quit his job so he could be home with him. We simply couldnt trust him out of our sight. We did send him to several group homes, psychiatric hospitals and finally a Residential Treatment Center (RTC).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 449089, member: 1514"] Hi, welcome to the board. I see your son is 14. That is a very difficult age with boys. It is when my son really took his nosedive into the teen years from hell. Starting him on lithium seems a good choice since he seems to be exhibiting some manic behavior but have they considered any sort of anti-psychotic to help with the distorted thinking? If your son is or has started with some sort of drug use or selling or passing around pot, well, he and his friends are distributing and he can be arrested for a felony. Even if all they do is pool their money to buy a larger bag and then split the proceeds, its distributing. If he is planning on robbing someone to start a larger drug ring...you have bigger issues. It does sound like he is bordering on the conduct disorder diagnosis along with a mood disorder. Whether or not dealing with the mood component will help with the conduct problems is yet to be seen. If I had a 14 year old boy who was suspected of having a mood disorder and/or a conduct disorder and was smoking pot AND he was hanging around kids who also smoked pot... I would ban him from those friends. I know this is difficult. I have been there. I had a son in those very same circumstances. We had to keep him attached to our hips constantly. He went nowhere alone. He was always with one of his parents. At one point his father quit his job so he could be home with him. We simply couldnt trust him out of our sight. We did send him to several group homes, psychiatric hospitals and finally a Residential Treatment Center (RTC). [/QUOTE]
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