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Hello, I am hoping I have finally found a place to get advise and support! I have a wonderful 15 year old daughter that was diagnosed with Major Depression and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in April of 2009. We had it under control with medications until end of September, she slipped back into a major depression so slowly that...

So, Wednesday was awful. Even gave him a 1/2 Melatonin to go to sleep, usually knocks him out cold within an hour, didn't do squat. Wound tighter than a rope. So, Thursday morning I called the Residential Treatment Facility (RTF). The Dexadrine should be given to Dylan at 8 AM, but there is an hour window, so he could take it...

Manster is doing ok, considering. I am careful to keep expectations reasonable. He brought home mostly C's on his report card and I praised him for doing his best. I recongize how difficult it is for him just getting through the long days and meeting everyone's expectations of him. We are...

We see psychiatrist tomorrow afternoon but just curiosity... R was switched to 10 mg Celexa almost 2 weeks ago. He was taking 12.5 mg of Zoloft but it didn't help at all. A couple of things I've noticed in the last couple of weeks that I can't figure out if they're medication related or what... 1. I used...

Hello All-- As you may know, my daughter, difficult child, was diagnosed with ADD (despite having no symptoms of ADD), ODD, and more recently Depression and Anxiety. When she was little--I suspected Aspergers...but my theory was dismissed almost immediately because doctors said difficult child's eye-contact "seems...

OMG - difficult child is really grossing me out now. I've always had to nag her to take her showers, brush her teeth, hair, etc. And I swear, if I didn't tell her to she wouldn't do it - at all! Her teeth look fuzzy. She smells. Her hair is greasy. Her skin is all white and dry and scaly. She's developed...

difficult child and I started with a new therapist a couple of months ago. We see him every 2 weeks and when I first spoke with him, he spilled out everything about the best counseling approach when BiPolar (BP)/mood cycling is involved with an adolescent. What he said was consistent with what I had read in various books...

I don't know what to make of it or do with it (if anything)... M seems overly anxious/concerned about sounds/voices that he can't place...like he wants to make sure that the rest of us heard them too and that we know where the sound was coming from. (did that make any sense? LOL) For instance...

Someone suggested this and I thought it was a good idea. We have to remember that everyone is different and that this isn't a "yes" or "no" on anything, just our own children's experineces. I'll start. Ritalin was my son's first medication and it didn't do anything much for him. He was then put on...

For a long time I was comfortable with having floating diagnosis; including the one that it's just bad parenting (I know better). It was adhd, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), three kinds of anxiety (Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Separation, Social) etc. I also see signs of bipolar with sugar addictions, hating the "no" word, manipulation. I see this as...

Hello, I posted a month or so ago about my difficult child. To catch you all up she is 15 and was diagnosed with major depression and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in April. Went on 50mg of Zoloft did great for about 6 months then went into a slow relapse. Started to notice more and more naps, snappier moods thought most of it...

The warning is going to be placed on 11 anticonvulsants including all three of the anticonvulsants used as mood stabilizers -- Lamictal, Tegretol/Trileptal and Depakote as well as Topamax. (ETA: Unlike what is on antidepressants, this is not going to be a black box warning.) Epilepsy Drugs to...

For those familiar with bipolar, could a 10-11 yo be triggered into major depression (1st time), then go into a manic state for 2-3mos., then be stable for 8-9 mos., then go into major depression for 1-2 mos., then manic state for 1 mo., then appear to be cycling back and forth every 2 weeks...

I heard this today and thought I'd pass it on. I believe it's true, HOWEVER the doctor on TV said that antidepressants DO work on the severely depressed (that's definitely me). I know they work for me. Mild/medium depression not so much--they recommend therapy and exercise. Thought I'd pass it along.

Has anyone taken lexapro or other antidepressants felt nervous? Tense in their bodies? I mainly notice it more when still.....i.e. in bed. Input? THANK YOU.

Any hints? Suggestions? Ideas? I've done the Ross Greene thing, but this little bugger is figuring out every tactic that I come up with! It also doesn't help that husband and I have different views on parenting. In his defense, he always listens when I speak with him about things...

difficult child has not taken the Effexor for 3 doses, for the past 2 days he has been miserable, today he is almost unbearable. He said he feels dizzy and his head feels weird (brain zaps) he feels very fatigued. What do I do? We are not planning on starting another AD right away but I did read that...

Ok...so, things were going rather well with M, as you all know, with the exception of the increasing irritability and building bottled anger, which we addressed with the psychiatrist and he advised us to increase the Tenex and said that we should see an immediate improvement. Fast forward to today...

Hello, My daughter (19 yrs old) just started on Lexapro this week. Just wondering if anyone else has used this drug or knows anything about it.

My 7 yr old has been having alot of nightmares lately and has always been very scared of ghosts and monsters. He wants an escort everywhere and started crying today when we left him alone in his room. We have "boo away" spray (a spray bottle with water in it) and nightlights, music (lullabyes...