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Hi, I am new at this so hopefully this goes ok. I have a 11 year old son who I love to pieces, but I feel like I am at my wits end with him right now. He was diagnosed as Mood Sympton Disorder not otherwise specified and ADHD. He is on Abilify as well. He has been on his medicine since December of 08. We have...

Many of us have posted about bathroom issues, guess it is my turn. What just slays me is he is doing this (I think) out of pure impulsivity and the inability to slow down. It only happens in the morning before the patch has kicked in. He goes in to urinate, and I think he is standing...

Can anyone tell me about Lithium? Today my son had an appointment with his psychiatrist and he was totally himself during the appointment. His psychiatrist got to see him in true form today! MH was argumentative and disrespectful to me. He “corrected” me and spoke to me as if he is my equal and not my son...

Anyone have any luck with Vyvanse? My son's psychiatrist wants to try him on Vyvanse because Adderall is just not working for him. He's only on 10 mg daily of Adderall, but everytime we try to raise the dose, he gets very emotional and can get aggressive and mean. I told the psychiatrist that I know he needs...

I don't know how to parent difficult child. I really don't. I have tried every which way. I have tried everything every therapist along the way has offered. I have spent endless days and nights racking my brain, trying to figure out what she needs, how to fulfill it, how to comfort her, how to help her. And...

So now difficult child is acting up. He got super angry with me as I talked with his therapist last week about an incident at school. This week he got just as angry with me as I told her about psychiatrist changing his medications. He heard me talking her before his visit today, gave me a super dirty look as he went...

psychiatrist suggested it was time to try to address ADHD issue again since difficult child has been stable on Depakote, Abilify, Straterra and Tenex. We are eliminating Straterra and dropping Tenex so he should be done with-that one in a week. Introduced Focalin ER today. difficult child has never done well with-stims (Ritalin...

Smallworld's comments on my Neuro-psychiatric thread made me want to post now about our psychiatrist apt yesterday. Our Neuro-psychiatric feels that K, once stable,she feels K is stable, could use a tiny bit of an ADHD medication. She feels of course that this is between us and our psychiatrist. She was highly recommended...

As my almost-6-year-old is screaming downstairs, I am looking forward to our first psychiatrist appointment. Would you mind sharing your first medication experiences for your child...how soon were medication's effects experienced and what were they? Thank you so much!

If your difficult child is taking two stabilizers and a stimulant, here's my question(s): 1. When you added the second mood stabilizer, did you have to reduce the amount of the first mood stabilizer? 2. When you added the second mood stabilizer, did you also have to reduce the amount of stimulant...

My difficult child has been off all mood stabilizers since November 08. Quite frankly, the changes I have seen are positive. She has been in a better frame of mind off medications than on. She has Daytrana patch @15 mg for her ADHD symptoms. Patch is off by 4 or 5pm daily. So I don't know if I am making a...

In February, difficult child 2 weighed <u>89.5 pounds</u>. Back then he was on Abilify 20mg and Focalin XR 60mg. In mid-July, when he had a physical, they said he weighed <u>96 pounds</u>. At the time, he had been titrating up on Depakote ER for two weeks and was at 750mg, and he had only been on 10mg...

We had our regularly scheduled psychiatrist appointment last night, and it was decided to add Lamictal to difficult child 2's cocktail. I told him I'd been noticing that difficult child 2 has been having trouble sleeping at night -- often gets up and wanders around or complains of not being able to sleep until after 1am. He...

difficult child 2 had a really rough year in 4th grade -- thank goodness it's finished. He is lucky to be blessed with a lot of smarts -- his grades were great but his behavior marks were AWFUL. His ADHD medications and mood medications have not worked, so we have stopped everything and will start from scratch next...

and already I swear I see a small change in difficult child 2. He is more compliant and not as hyperactive or impulsive -- not to say that all his symptoms are resolved at all. It's just that he will actually do what I ask without tons of argument, and without having to nag forever -- just nag a little...

So the psychiatrist decided we should try to take difficult child 2 off Lamictal because the neuro thought maybe with adding the Risperdal last month he wouldn't need it since he is also on Depakote ER. The Risperdal was reintroduced to address the shakiness from difficult child's Sydenham's chorea (atypical antipsychotics and...

I know our situation is nowhere as severe as many of yours, but nonetheless it's incredibly frustrating and at times overwhelming for me. difficult child 2's math teacher emailed me yesterday afternoon with an update on some incidents that happened Thursday and Friday. First, he "boxed" the ears of another...

Things with difficult child are spiraling downward quickly. I'm really feeling it emotionally today. I can't concentrate on my work because I'm so worried about her and my family. I don't know how we're going to survive this. Things took a turn for the worse on Friday when a classmate called the house...

I didn't see a new member / introduction thread. So I'll just say hello this way. I have a 13-year-old daughter with generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and tics (motor only right now, but she has had vocal in the past). First...

Hi. I am going through the roof with my difficult child's situation. He's 13 and we don't know what to do or where to go next. He is currently in an alternative education (partial) program offered by an area school district where he is doing "all right" but still having bouts of depression, lying...