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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 10860" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Hi, Sara. My son gained twenty pounds in one month on Risperdal. That isn't why we took him off of it, but he's been off medications for three years now and is still overweight from all the medications. Since I've been a victim of medication hunger, I can vouch that his behavior with the sugar is not as strange as you think. Antidepressants also increase your appetite and I'd been known to guiltily eat an entire cheesecake and stash the trash from it in garbage bins far away from home so that hub wouldn't know I bought and ate one whole cheesecake myself. i was embarassed. I finally went on a strict diet and learned to control the cravings (lost 50 pounds), but it was hard. Also, you may want to take him to a neuropsychologist. He could also have Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). He has some red flags for that and it can cause explosive behavior. The speech problems are a red flag. Did he have any other developmental delays, problems with sensory stuff, lack of coordination, inflexibility, cluelessness in socializing? Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) is often misdiagnosed as bipolar. It was for my son. If it's caused by Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), mood stabilizers won't solve the problem. Of course, he could have both, but a psychiatrist often knows nothing about the spectrum. It's not a psychiatric problem, although it can look like one. I'd take him to a neuropsychologist just to cover all the bases. Our psychiatrist really mismanaged and misdiagnosed Lucas, and he had a good reputation, but he knew nothing about higher functioning autism. He said Lucas couldn't have it because he was "too friendly" and made "too good eye contact" and could "go from room to room without melting down." Those are all fallcies, things even I knew, but the psychiatrist didn't.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 10860, member: 1550"] Hi, Sara. My son gained twenty pounds in one month on Risperdal. That isn't why we took him off of it, but he's been off medications for three years now and is still overweight from all the medications. Since I've been a victim of medication hunger, I can vouch that his behavior with the sugar is not as strange as you think. Antidepressants also increase your appetite and I'd been known to guiltily eat an entire cheesecake and stash the trash from it in garbage bins far away from home so that hub wouldn't know I bought and ate one whole cheesecake myself. i was embarassed. I finally went on a strict diet and learned to control the cravings (lost 50 pounds), but it was hard. Also, you may want to take him to a neuropsychologist. He could also have Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). He has some red flags for that and it can cause explosive behavior. The speech problems are a red flag. Did he have any other developmental delays, problems with sensory stuff, lack of coordination, inflexibility, cluelessness in socializing? Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) is often misdiagnosed as bipolar. It was for my son. If it's caused by Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), mood stabilizers won't solve the problem. Of course, he could have both, but a psychiatrist often knows nothing about the spectrum. It's not a psychiatric problem, although it can look like one. I'd take him to a neuropsychologist just to cover all the bases. Our psychiatrist really mismanaged and misdiagnosed Lucas, and he had a good reputation, but he knew nothing about higher functioning autism. He said Lucas couldn't have it because he was "too friendly" and made "too good eye contact" and could "go from room to room without melting down." Those are all fallcies, things even I knew, but the psychiatrist didn't. [/QUOTE]
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