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My difficult child is 3 years old. He has epilepsy and anxiety issues. The psychiatrist feels he has severe separation anxiety and maybe social anxiety. He is going for a formal assessment at a partial hospitalization program hopefully next week. We are just waiting for an opening. But I have been...

Somehow, I managed to land our 13 year old and our 5 year old at their psychiatrist appointments on the SAME DAY, and only had to take ONE day off work this month!!! Luck of the draw, yes!!! Anyway, so I already posted about my 5 year old's first appointment with her psychiatrist, and now to talk about our 13 year...

difficult child 1 used to be on Lexapro (for Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)) and Elavil (for IBS) up until last Spring. I dropped the Elavil (low dose of 10mg) because I figured he wouldn't need it during the less stressful days of Summer. At our July check-in, psychiatrist said he thought some of the previous ODD behaviors we'd had in...

FYI FDA informed healthcare professionals that the Agency has analyzed reports of suicidality (suicidal behavior or ideation) from placebo-controlled clinical studies of eleven drugs used to treat epilepsy as well as psychiatric disorders, and other conditions. In the FDA's analysis, patients...

Hello, I haven't updated for awhile, it has been too exhausting to summarize what has been happening. difficult child has had an up and down summer, some successes but mostly very difficult - it always is in the summer. He had a really rough start at Grade 1, new school and despite the warnings the teacher...

While the article says that proof is not there for the psychiatric "cocktails", it does show that some kids could not function without their psychiatric drugs. All things must be balanced, in my humble opinion. NY TIMES November 23, 2006 Proof Is Scant on Psychiatric Drug Mix for Young By GARDINER HARRIS Their...

Yikes! What's a normal 14 year old boy, anyway? Can't tell what's puberty and what's the mood disorder. And I have no experience with normal boy development, if there is such a thing. I need a few arm-chair psychiatrists here so I'm calling up you guys whose collective wisdom is always appreciated...

Hi Guys! Please give me an answer/suggestion re: lithium. difficult child 1 is in the psychiatric hospital. and finally started cycling for them (took a week + to do so). They're suggesting lithium to quell the impulsivity and the hypersexual comments and gestures (he's 12 by the way). They explained that this points...

I am new to posting to a forum of any kind but my husband and I are desperate for help and feel isolated when dealing with our 16 yr old difficult child daughter. She has disliked school since kindergarten. She is in 10th grade and doesn't care about grades or school. Just recently she was approved for an IEP...

I have posted before about my son and PWS I had hoped we would not have our unusual behavioural epsiode again this year. It is a yearly event for the past 3 and a half years and was unmedicated. This time when the episode started just over 10days ago we tried to keep it at bay. it didnt happen...

My son has been diagnosed with idiopathic chondrolysis. Does anyone know anything about this disease?