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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 729716" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Medication alone is not as good as with therapy. I have a mood disorder and have been on medications since 23. There are new methods now I wished had been around for me such as tapping and eye movement.</p><p></p><p>I was on antidepressants most of my life. Without them I would not be here. I love my SSRI, but it never made me manic. It normalized my moods and stopped the moodswings, which were mostly depression. I hated a trial of mood stabilizers and won't take them. I don't need them anyway but Lithium made me feel as if I were in a dream. I couldn't function. Tegretal and Depakote made me a drpressed zombie. I don't recommend them for kids. Or for any adults who are affected like I was. They are super potent and have serious side effects and I understand lack of compliance as nobody wants to feel even worse.</p><p></p><p> I have never tried the newer antipsychotics but my son had a horrible reaction to all. He was misdiagnosed with childhood bipolar and the truth Is that it is impossible to accurately diagnose bipolar in a child...he has a form of autism and is doing great medication free. He also got wild and crazy on ADHD drugs. At 24 he is off medications now over ten years and fine and independent.</p><p></p><p>He started gaining a ton of weight on medications and is still obese from when he took Risperdal. These peychiatric medications starve you. I gained weight too.</p><p></p><p>No one medication helps everyone. And the protocol did not work for my mood disorder. I have a great life now but I need my SSRI. Now some people can't take them. This is true of ALL medication, even non psychiatric medications. There really is no one size fits all and every diagnosis is a crapshoot, just the opinion of the psychiatrist since there is just the flawed and ever changing DSM and no definitive blood tests. Use common sense. Do what Mom feels good doing. It's YOUR child.</p><p></p><p>Psychiatrists are not diagnostic gods nor is psychiatry an exact science by any means. Nobody is even certain what these various disorders are. They are theory in many cases.</p><p></p><p>My forty years in the mental health system have shown me things that maybe others can't see. Like how you can go to five psychiatrists and get five different diagnosis. And how to be a medication guini pig. That's how I felt. A child doesn't have the ability to say "This is making me worse. Please stop!"</p><p></p><p>My advice is to go slow, one medication at a time and be very leery of the potent drugs for kids. Most countries do not medicate children like we do in the U.S. There is a reason for that.</p><p></p><p>Wishing you good luck. I always recommend a neuropsychology evaluation. I feel they do the best testing we have available to find out what is probably wrong.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 729716, member: 1550"] Medication alone is not as good as with therapy. I have a mood disorder and have been on medications since 23. There are new methods now I wished had been around for me such as tapping and eye movement. I was on antidepressants most of my life. Without them I would not be here. I love my SSRI, but it never made me manic. It normalized my moods and stopped the moodswings, which were mostly depression. I hated a trial of mood stabilizers and won't take them. I don't need them anyway but Lithium made me feel as if I were in a dream. I couldn't function. Tegretal and Depakote made me a drpressed zombie. I don't recommend them for kids. Or for any adults who are affected like I was. They are super potent and have serious side effects and I understand lack of compliance as nobody wants to feel even worse. I have never tried the newer antipsychotics but my son had a horrible reaction to all. He was misdiagnosed with childhood bipolar and the truth Is that it is impossible to accurately diagnose bipolar in a child...he has a form of autism and is doing great medication free. He also got wild and crazy on ADHD drugs. At 24 he is off medications now over ten years and fine and independent. He started gaining a ton of weight on medications and is still obese from when he took Risperdal. These peychiatric medications starve you. I gained weight too. No one medication helps everyone. And the protocol did not work for my mood disorder. I have a great life now but I need my SSRI. Now some people can't take them. This is true of ALL medication, even non psychiatric medications. There really is no one size fits all and every diagnosis is a crapshoot, just the opinion of the psychiatrist since there is just the flawed and ever changing DSM and no definitive blood tests. Use common sense. Do what Mom feels good doing. It's YOUR child. Psychiatrists are not diagnostic gods nor is psychiatry an exact science by any means. Nobody is even certain what these various disorders are. They are theory in many cases. My forty years in the mental health system have shown me things that maybe others can't see. Like how you can go to five psychiatrists and get five different diagnosis. And how to be a medication guini pig. That's how I felt. A child doesn't have the ability to say "This is making me worse. Please stop!" My advice is to go slow, one medication at a time and be very leery of the potent drugs for kids. Most countries do not medicate children like we do in the U.S. There is a reason for that. Wishing you good luck. I always recommend a neuropsychology evaluation. I feel they do the best testing we have available to find out what is probably wrong. [/QUOTE]
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