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<blockquote data-quote="Lilliana" data-source="post: 96738" data-attributes="member: 4032"><p>Hello everyone,</p><p></p><p>I thought I owed you each an update at the very least. As of this moment, I have been awake without a single moment of sleep for 34 hours. Yesterday evening difficult child lost it completely. She was getting ready to go somewhere and when I asked where she just launched into an all-out rage. It was very unprovoked and actually very frightening. She was screaming, stamping her feet, cussing like a sailor, and hit her dad and me. Mostly me. She would not contain herself, and seriously, it was strange because NOTHING should have provoked her into this behavior. When she wouldn't stop, we called 911. The cops came and she was so agitated, she kept straightening her hair and wouldn't put the straightener down, saying she had a party to go to! Like it is just everyday that you have two cops in your hallway watching you straighten your hair! It was bizarre to say the least. They would not involuntarily commit her. AGAIN.</p><p>So, we took her to the ER. What a nightmare. They put her on a 72 hour hold for being a danger to others. She did not EVEN attempt to clean up her behavior in front of these doctors and nurses. She was just ballistic.</p><p></p><p>Then they told me they don't have an adolescent psychiatric unit, so they could not transport her until this afternoon at 2pm. So, I had to sit up with her awake all night as she sat there with a perfectly nice, but unknown to me, male guard. I am so beyond tired at this moment. I cannot even think.</p><p></p><p>The ambulance took her to the adolescent unit, and she was very belligerent, tearful, and angry. She pulled my hair there! Then she grabbed the entrance papers out of my hand and tore them up. She was just completely manic. Well, they say hypomanic. The hypothesis is that she became hypomanic after taking the SSRI for her Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Thinking back on her behavior since starting that medication (Luvox) I do believe that might be true. Tonight they put her on Klonopin. Last night they zonked her out with Haldol (10 mg), Cogentin, and Ativan (4 mg). I said no to any more anti-psychotics until we know what we are actually dealing with. It was an ER dr (not psychiatrist) who recommended all those medications last night -- a little too much, in my opinion.</p><p></p><p>Well, tomorrow a.m. the psychiatrist will evaluate her and we will see where we go from here. PLEASE say a prayer for her. I am so scared for her. I don't know what to think.</p><p></p><p>I just wanted to update you.</p><p></p><p>Thank you for all your suggestions and caring. How kind you all have been to me. Thank you again.</p><p></p><p>Lill</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lilliana, post: 96738, member: 4032"] Hello everyone, I thought I owed you each an update at the very least. As of this moment, I have been awake without a single moment of sleep for 34 hours. Yesterday evening difficult child lost it completely. She was getting ready to go somewhere and when I asked where she just launched into an all-out rage. It was very unprovoked and actually very frightening. She was screaming, stamping her feet, cussing like a sailor, and hit her dad and me. Mostly me. She would not contain herself, and seriously, it was strange because NOTHING should have provoked her into this behavior. When she wouldn't stop, we called 911. The cops came and she was so agitated, she kept straightening her hair and wouldn't put the straightener down, saying she had a party to go to! Like it is just everyday that you have two cops in your hallway watching you straighten your hair! It was bizarre to say the least. They would not involuntarily commit her. AGAIN. So, we took her to the ER. What a nightmare. They put her on a 72 hour hold for being a danger to others. She did not EVEN attempt to clean up her behavior in front of these doctors and nurses. She was just ballistic. Then they told me they don't have an adolescent psychiatric unit, so they could not transport her until this afternoon at 2pm. So, I had to sit up with her awake all night as she sat there with a perfectly nice, but unknown to me, male guard. I am so beyond tired at this moment. I cannot even think. The ambulance took her to the adolescent unit, and she was very belligerent, tearful, and angry. She pulled my hair there! Then she grabbed the entrance papers out of my hand and tore them up. She was just completely manic. Well, they say hypomanic. The hypothesis is that she became hypomanic after taking the SSRI for her Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Thinking back on her behavior since starting that medication (Luvox) I do believe that might be true. Tonight they put her on Klonopin. Last night they zonked her out with Haldol (10 mg), Cogentin, and Ativan (4 mg). I said no to any more anti-psychotics until we know what we are actually dealing with. It was an ER dr (not psychiatrist) who recommended all those medications last night -- a little too much, in my opinion. Well, tomorrow a.m. the psychiatrist will evaluate her and we will see where we go from here. PLEASE say a prayer for her. I am so scared for her. I don't know what to think. I just wanted to update you. Thank you for all your suggestions and caring. How kind you all have been to me. Thank you again. Lill [/QUOTE]
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