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<blockquote data-quote="neednewtechnique" data-source="post: 77352" data-attributes="member: 3527"><p>You got lucky on that one, in a way.... So many times, we can take difficult child somewhere, like a doctor, and we WANT the doctor to be able to see the behavior we are trying to desperately to describe, and they sit there like little angels and they simply cannot believe that there are really that many problems. So being that the psychiatrist got to see it firsthand, I would agree that it was a good thing for this time.</p><p></p><p>As for the hypomania, as you mentioned your middle child noticing the mania more than any depression, the risperadol is supposed to help lessen the mania, so maybe this won't be a bad medication for him. As for the two you notice the mood swings in, as someone else mentioned adding the mood stabilizer, it might not be a bad idea. The mood stabilizer has been working so well for my difficult child that we have not even needed to add the "risperadol" type medication to go along with it. </p><p></p><p>One good thing about them all starting out on the same medications is that, over the course of the next few weeks, you can make notes about what behaviors are improving in each individual child, and what each child is still going through or if anything is getting worse, and it might help YOU distinguish the different changes in behavior of each kid so you can communicate that to him and he can adjust each child according to new observations.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="neednewtechnique, post: 77352, member: 3527"] You got lucky on that one, in a way.... So many times, we can take difficult child somewhere, like a doctor, and we WANT the doctor to be able to see the behavior we are trying to desperately to describe, and they sit there like little angels and they simply cannot believe that there are really that many problems. So being that the psychiatrist got to see it firsthand, I would agree that it was a good thing for this time. As for the hypomania, as you mentioned your middle child noticing the mania more than any depression, the risperadol is supposed to help lessen the mania, so maybe this won't be a bad medication for him. As for the two you notice the mood swings in, as someone else mentioned adding the mood stabilizer, it might not be a bad idea. The mood stabilizer has been working so well for my difficult child that we have not even needed to add the "risperadol" type medication to go along with it. One good thing about them all starting out on the same medications is that, over the course of the next few weeks, you can make notes about what behaviors are improving in each individual child, and what each child is still going through or if anything is getting worse, and it might help YOU distinguish the different changes in behavior of each kid so you can communicate that to him and he can adjust each child according to new observations. [/QUOTE]
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