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Back after a While...18 Yr Old Son Admitted to psychiatric Ward Last Night
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<blockquote data-quote="Otto von Bismark" data-source="post: 700456" data-attributes="member: 12905"><p>Thank you all. I just got back from visiting him for the first time. It was pretty sad. He was on depakote all day...says it calmed the voices, and made him feel "calm inside" for the first time in a long time. This is good. I told him what was interesting about that is that when we look at him, he seems calm <em>all the time</em>. He said, "I'm not, Mom. Inside, I'm raging all the time." So I suppose this is good that he feels different immediately on depakote.</p><p></p><p>The thing that was sad for me is that his personality was visibly altered already. Perhaps because his body has to get used to things, but he talked over me, instead of with me, and didn't connect or respond to little jokes I made. I can usually get a wry smile at least, but not tonight. Very flat. I don't like to see that, when there were so many very seriously crazy people on the floor who were plotzed out of their gourds with what has to be very heavy anti-psychotics. They literally sat in chairs an drooled. </p><p></p><p>I tried to keep myself from wondering if this is going to be my son in 30 years. Heartbreaking for these people, and worrisome for me. I worry that we are on a different kind of slippery slope towards permanent dysfunction, one that involves medication impairment. </p><p></p><p>Depakote is interesting choice, as it is anti-epileptic, and my son has had abnormal EEG readings, and focal seizures. Perhaps it will help with the stuff going on in his frontal lobe. Also, my psychologist friend told me a few minutes ago that they often put people on Depakote who have had mania, esp with SSRI medications. The Luvox they are putting him on tonight is an SSRI and the only time he has been on an SSRI he had pretty bad mania (thought he could fly, looked for my car keys [without being asked] by emptying all the drawers in my bedroom, etc...).</p><p></p><p>He just called. Told me he took the luvox and the risperdal tonight. Then he said, like he always does five seconds after having some new intervention, that if he had access to electronics right now, he wouldn't even be interested in looking up bad stuff.</p><p></p><p>We needed an intervention and something needed to change. Now we have one. His quality of life was deteriorating rapidly. Who knows if this will work but we have to try something, as we can't continue the way things have been doing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Otto von Bismark, post: 700456, member: 12905"] Thank you all. I just got back from visiting him for the first time. It was pretty sad. He was on depakote all day...says it calmed the voices, and made him feel "calm inside" for the first time in a long time. This is good. I told him what was interesting about that is that when we look at him, he seems calm [I]all the time[/I]. He said, "I'm not, Mom. Inside, I'm raging all the time." So I suppose this is good that he feels different immediately on depakote. The thing that was sad for me is that his personality was visibly altered already. Perhaps because his body has to get used to things, but he talked over me, instead of with me, and didn't connect or respond to little jokes I made. I can usually get a wry smile at least, but not tonight. Very flat. I don't like to see that, when there were so many very seriously crazy people on the floor who were plotzed out of their gourds with what has to be very heavy anti-psychotics. They literally sat in chairs an drooled. I tried to keep myself from wondering if this is going to be my son in 30 years. Heartbreaking for these people, and worrisome for me. I worry that we are on a different kind of slippery slope towards permanent dysfunction, one that involves medication impairment. Depakote is interesting choice, as it is anti-epileptic, and my son has had abnormal EEG readings, and focal seizures. Perhaps it will help with the stuff going on in his frontal lobe. Also, my psychologist friend told me a few minutes ago that they often put people on Depakote who have had mania, esp with SSRI medications. The Luvox they are putting him on tonight is an SSRI and the only time he has been on an SSRI he had pretty bad mania (thought he could fly, looked for my car keys [without being asked] by emptying all the drawers in my bedroom, etc...). He just called. Told me he took the luvox and the risperdal tonight. Then he said, like he always does five seconds after having some new intervention, that if he had access to electronics right now, he wouldn't even be interested in looking up bad stuff. We needed an intervention and something needed to change. Now we have one. His quality of life was deteriorating rapidly. Who knows if this will work but we have to try something, as we can't continue the way things have been doing. [/QUOTE]
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