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Spoke to the nurse at the Child & Family Clinic today
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<blockquote data-quote="JKF" data-source="post: 590729" data-attributes="member: 12470"><p>WTW - omg can you imagine? How nice would <em><strong>that</strong></em> be!??!! lol</p><p></p><p>And I'm praying that the medications are a key in helping my difficult child. He's never been on a mood stabilizer before. This is the first time and my fingers are crossed that this is what finally helps him. He's been diagnosis'd with so many things by so many different psychiatrists : depressive disorder not otherwise specified, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), ODD, ICD, CD, PTSD, etc but I know in my heart that the bipolar diagnosis is the right one. difficult child's biodad has bipolar although he's never been treated for it. He's now in prison for armed robbery. difficult child acts <em><strong>exactly</strong></em> like his father and that scares me. </p><p></p><p>The behaviors you described in your son fit my son to a "t" when he is manic. However it took until just before his 18th birthday last year to get an official bipolar diagnosis. And even now it appears that it's questionable to some. Yesterday I was gathering records for the MHA and as I was going through his last psychiatric evaluation from May 2012 from the group home he was in, I saw that the psychiatrist wrote that it "<em><strong>appears</strong></em> he has a mood disorder" but that she didn't have any documented episodes of depression or mania so she's not comfortable officially diagnosis'ing it. She did not list it on his evaluation as a diagnosis at all. She met him <strong>ONCE</strong> during the intake evaluation and based her opinion on that one meeting so I'm writing her off as a whack job and I'm sticking with the diagnosis from the really great psychiatrist he was seeing before that. And the psychiatrist he just started seeing through the MHA diagnosis'd him with bipolar and started him on Lithium and Wellbutrin so I'm thinking the bipolar diagnosis is pretty concrete at this point.</p><p></p><p>Anyway - enough of my rambling - lol. I think your approach with your difficult child is a great one. Stay calm and relaxed. Let him feel like he's in control. Maybe eventually he'll be rational enough to give the medications a try.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JKF, post: 590729, member: 12470"] WTW - omg can you imagine? How nice would [I][B]that[/B][/I] be!??!! lol And I'm praying that the medications are a key in helping my difficult child. He's never been on a mood stabilizer before. This is the first time and my fingers are crossed that this is what finally helps him. He's been diagnosis'd with so many things by so many different psychiatrists : depressive disorder not otherwise specified, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), ODD, ICD, CD, PTSD, etc but I know in my heart that the bipolar diagnosis is the right one. difficult child's biodad has bipolar although he's never been treated for it. He's now in prison for armed robbery. difficult child acts [I][B]exactly[/B][/I] like his father and that scares me. The behaviors you described in your son fit my son to a "t" when he is manic. However it took until just before his 18th birthday last year to get an official bipolar diagnosis. And even now it appears that it's questionable to some. Yesterday I was gathering records for the MHA and as I was going through his last psychiatric evaluation from May 2012 from the group home he was in, I saw that the psychiatrist wrote that it "[I][B]appears[/B][/I] he has a mood disorder" but that she didn't have any documented episodes of depression or mania so she's not comfortable officially diagnosis'ing it. She did not list it on his evaluation as a diagnosis at all. She met him [B]ONCE[/B] during the intake evaluation and based her opinion on that one meeting so I'm writing her off as a whack job and I'm sticking with the diagnosis from the really great psychiatrist he was seeing before that. And the psychiatrist he just started seeing through the MHA diagnosis'd him with bipolar and started him on Lithium and Wellbutrin so I'm thinking the bipolar diagnosis is pretty concrete at this point. Anyway - enough of my rambling - lol. I think your approach with your difficult child is a great one. Stay calm and relaxed. Let him feel like he's in control. Maybe eventually he'll be rational enough to give the medications a try. [/QUOTE]
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