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<blockquote data-quote="Sara PA" data-source="post: 158267" data-attributes="member: 1498"><p>Yeah, I meant to mention that part about being involved in the criminal justice system. been there done that. </p><p></p><p>My son was arrested for something stupid that happened <em>after</em> he was jumped in school. The kid who jumped him got detention, my son accidently hit a teacher and he was charged with felony assault. That coincided with our getting a copy of my son's phos discharge statement*, our learning about the psychiatric side effects of the drugs he was taking and our decision to fire the psychiatrist responsible for it all. (Ah, those were exciting times.) If I could have, we would have just taken him home and taken him off all the medications. But there was the court demanding that he plead guilty to something -- anything -- so that the court could keep an eye on him and make sure he "got the help he needed". I threw my $500/mo doctor and therapist bills at them and the two inch file of medical records and demanded to know what additional help they thought they could provide and, oh yeah, were they going to pay for it? We went to trial and the public defender got the charges dropped. We dismissed the therapist until my son was more stable. We found a new doctor who stood by supportively while my son discontinued all but the Lamictal and, eventually, after trying some other mood stabilizer add-ons, the Lamictal. That was the doctor we had when it became obvious the lithium was allowing seizure activity to occur. We never did get a new therapist. By the time my son would have benefitted from a good one, if we could find one, he was unable to trust medical personnel. He wouldn't even go to the ER when he had a gash in his head and a concussion.</p><p> </p><p>Boy, I'm having a lot of memories stirred up.</p><p></p><p>*That discharge statement was so full of factual inaccuracies and so biased against me that my son refused to see the doctor again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sara PA, post: 158267, member: 1498"] Yeah, I meant to mention that part about being involved in the criminal justice system. been there done that. My son was arrested for something stupid that happened [I]after[/I] he was jumped in school. The kid who jumped him got detention, my son accidently hit a teacher and he was charged with felony assault. That coincided with our getting a copy of my son's phos discharge statement*, our learning about the psychiatric side effects of the drugs he was taking and our decision to fire the psychiatrist responsible for it all. (Ah, those were exciting times.) If I could have, we would have just taken him home and taken him off all the medications. But there was the court demanding that he plead guilty to something -- anything -- so that the court could keep an eye on him and make sure he "got the help he needed". I threw my $500/mo doctor and therapist bills at them and the two inch file of medical records and demanded to know what additional help they thought they could provide and, oh yeah, were they going to pay for it? We went to trial and the public defender got the charges dropped. We dismissed the therapist until my son was more stable. We found a new doctor who stood by supportively while my son discontinued all but the Lamictal and, eventually, after trying some other mood stabilizer add-ons, the Lamictal. That was the doctor we had when it became obvious the lithium was allowing seizure activity to occur. We never did get a new therapist. By the time my son would have benefitted from a good one, if we could find one, he was unable to trust medical personnel. He wouldn't even go to the ER when he had a gash in his head and a concussion. Boy, I'm having a lot of memories stirred up. *That discharge statement was so full of factual inaccuracies and so biased against me that my son refused to see the doctor again. [/QUOTE]
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