families of bipolar

I was curious to know if any of you began taken medications because of the stress/depression of difficult child'S? Is this common? If yes, what kind of medications and for what? Depression/Stress? Thank you in advance for your response. ME AND THE BOYS

Apart again. Friday, I struggled to get up and to work. And in fact, didn't go. difficult child 2's teacher called before I got out of the house (she calls every Friday), and it was the same ol', same ol', but I found myself curled in a ball when the call was over. I stayed home, spent the day with...

The doctor just called. They will be taking my daughter off the Concerta, if they can get her to agree to take a new medication. She freaked out and demanded to stay on Concerta, saying she needs it to concentrate. She wasn't even open to a discussion about it. I told the doctor to tell my difficult child that if...

... or just some friendly voices ... My situation is fairly complex, and yet simple at the same time. I figure I'll give some background first so that everyone gets an idea of who we are. I'm a 33 year old divorced mother of five. I live in a merged family with my SO. Two of our children...

Hello, I had just recently found this site in April after a few years and got some advice from many of you to look into children's hospitals here in Connecticut. I called Yale and got no luck, but the Institute of Living (IOL) took us in. Since I posted, things became significantly worse while...

Today difficult child had a meltdown because he didn't want to go to his dad's house. He goes for one day every weekend but he was tired this morning and I guess he hadn't prepared for the transition. So here he is yelling that he hates his dad, hates his house, wish he never met him, stop talking to me...

Hi everyone, psychiatrist wants to try difficult child on Wellbutrin - starting at a low dose. He was tried on Zoloft 6 months ago and we got all of the negative reactions after 8 weeks on the medication that are warned. I have read a bit about Wellbutrin and it seems they have just about the same warnings for it as...

So after several visits with the psychiatrist and an evaluation at the autism research clinic, we were told ds has anxiety and adhd. We tried prozac and celexa for the anxiety but it only activated him and made him more aggressive. I would LOVE to try medicating his adhd (severe) but I'm afraid...

So reading some of your histories like MWM and SRL and Sara PA and Janna as well as a bunch of others... I am sitting here thinking OK we all seem intelligent. Although how much did we know in the beginning? What were the missteps in getting a missed diagnosis for some of you... how do we know if it...

Well, at long last, we have taken the step on putting him on Risperdal. We are finally comfortable enough with the diagnosis of Tourette's Syndrome and BiPolar (BP) and have had a CAAT scan, EEG, blood tests and have a BiPolar (BP) Specialist who is closely monitoring things. It has been two days on the medication and so far, so...

Ok, now I need advice on how to get my stubborn difficult child to take the medication.... He is trialing Dexadrine, to rule out severe ADHD but he likely has Early Onset Bi-Polar (EOBP). I have tried crushing up the tablet and hiding it in milk or yogurt but he figured it out and refused to finish it. Then I found a great new...

Hi, remember me (the overnight change). We went for the second blood test for strep, and it was negative. I know the doctor is not up on PANDAS, and I still think he might have missed something. We have an appointment for a full physical next friday, and I am going to ask for a neuro workup...

I dunno what's up with R today but I'm absolutely ready to run away from home. He was uncontrollable this am when we had to take daughter to do her dance revue pix. From there we had to run an errand at the mall and he was worse. He has destroyed his room and when anything is said about it or any...

So, after DS13 exploded the other day, I got him into neuro yesterday morning. Turns out his EEG from last week was awful. Why didn't they tell me then? Why did I have to wait for neuro to sit down with me???? Anyway, he's having multiple seizures every few seconds. I didn't notice them, just...

Brief background DD1 was pretty stable on Wellbutrin and paxil. Then she started having depressive episodes once a month, then it was one every two weeks for 6 weeks and then BAM! 2-3 per week. Episodes would last a few hours with crying, feelings of hopelessness, helplessness and thoughts of...

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...

POSTED BY HUSKERMOM3: hello, first time doing this. I have an almost 13 year old daughter who is being treated for bipolar, asperger's and has pretty severe learning delays. We are still fighting to have a diagnoses for how severe her delay or mental disability is. She has been having raging...

Hi everyone, I am a longtime lurker and have posted just a few times. I am short on time (which I know isn't an excuse) but have always felt that if I can't give to this site than I shouldn't be asking for a lot of your time. Given the stress of the last few weeks I'll make the committment to...

Have any of your kids had ANY problems with Buspirone? Our psychiatrist prescribed it for anxiety in difficult child 1 and he's having screaming outbursts at school, threatening to kill people, himself and others. He was EMS'd to the local psychiatric ER on Thurs. was perfectly fine, released, threats are probably...

difficult child escalated with his stealing by opening SO's wallet yesterday and taking $20 from it. difficult child did this while SO was outside working on his car on his day off from work. difficult child was the only one in the house and decided to help himself! We discovered the theft only after he and daughter were picked up by...