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<blockquote data-quote="BloodiedButUnbowed" data-source="post: 731600" data-attributes="member: 13303"><p>YS was released from the hospital and returned to school. He had an incident there and was defiant to school staff. These are not behaviors we ever saw in him before his Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) this fall, when his brain was deprived of oxygen due to his heart stopping.</p><p></p><p>So hard to know what is going on with him. He is erratic and impulsive, says and does the first thing coming to his mind. He appears to have a new girlfriend who goes to the same alternative school with him, and his incident involved her.</p><p></p><p>We still do not know if his manic phase was temporary. The doctors say it will be about a month more until they can say with any confidence that the episode was a side effect of his antidepressant. The alternative to that conclusion would be that he is in fact bipolar, which would in a sense be good news because we can treat it, but once he is an adult, we will have no control over whether or not he takes his medications.</p><p></p><p>The school is displaying infinite patience - for now. YS has not earned a serious consequence to date but if he continues on his path it is just a matter of time before he is suspended or perhaps transferred to another program.</p><p></p><p>I will suggest that wife and ex husband consider taking him to a neurologist.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BloodiedButUnbowed, post: 731600, member: 13303"] YS was released from the hospital and returned to school. He had an incident there and was defiant to school staff. These are not behaviors we ever saw in him before his Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) this fall, when his brain was deprived of oxygen due to his heart stopping. So hard to know what is going on with him. He is erratic and impulsive, says and does the first thing coming to his mind. He appears to have a new girlfriend who goes to the same alternative school with him, and his incident involved her. We still do not know if his manic phase was temporary. The doctors say it will be about a month more until they can say with any confidence that the episode was a side effect of his antidepressant. The alternative to that conclusion would be that he is in fact bipolar, which would in a sense be good news because we can treat it, but once he is an adult, we will have no control over whether or not he takes his medications. The school is displaying infinite patience - for now. YS has not earned a serious consequence to date but if he continues on his path it is just a matter of time before he is suspended or perhaps transferred to another program. I will suggest that wife and ex husband consider taking him to a neurologist. [/QUOTE]
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