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I also decided not to go a doctor or taking drugs. Manic depressive disorder is Chronic disease, and there is no final treat. I think that being awareness of the disease and some strategies of dealing with it will help more than drugs
I am not cling to life, and not ready to mortgage my live with some drugs
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It is so frustrating that as a Parent that i can not do anything to help us me and my husband were suspose to go away for a weekend for our anniversary and she threw such a fit that she was standing out side our home yelling at him swearing at him then she took off. and I had to call the police on her needles to say we did not go away.
She decided not to take her birth control and she is active with some boy that really is not a good kid.
So i tryed to get pins put on her and i can not they do not deal with children that have been diagnosed with a mental disorder. She shows the school (when she goes) , her therpist, and her lady form parsons a totaly diffrents side i do belive that my daughter knows how to play the system. But at home she is terriable and i am at my wits end she thought she was pregant, I have gotten to the point where i just want to give up on her and let her do whatever she wants because there seem to be not help for the parents and i have done everything that has been asked of us
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I am very concerned about my daughters well being. My daughter is 5 years old and goes to kindergarden. We recently moved in to an apartment with my partner 6 months ago. About 3 months into the apartment i started noticing a change in my daughters behavior. I have also noticed that my partner and my daughter do not get along as much as i would like them to. I am always yelling at my partner to spend time with my daughter to show her that she is wanted but my partner insists that she hates kids and does not want to be bothered by my daughter. Lately my daughter has been acting out such as getting introuble at school, not listening to myself or my partner, and crying and getting upset over the littlest things(example: this morning she got upset and cried over not being able to a cinniman pop tart for breakfeast and that she didnt want what i gave her) which in return makes my partner upset and she yells and curses at her (which as you can imagine makes me very upset and i start yelling at my partner). I ask my daughter if she likes my partner and she says yes. I ask her if she wants us to leave and live somewhere else and she says no. My daughter just seems very unhappy all the time at home but seems to be okay when she is at her grandmothers house, school, or when its just her and I.. It is very upsetting to me that my family is falling apart and I believe it is putting my state of mind in a depression state as well. What tips or advice can i get to help with my issues? Thank you so much!
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There are days that i just want to give up and let her due what ever instead of fighting with her. I document when she goes to school and when she does not go. Then we are conflicted with if we should put her on pins or not part of wants to and part of me does not. Me and my husband some how manage to keep each other in check there are days that we both just want to quit and wash our hands of her and of course we can not do that she is our child. We love our chidren and would and have done all that we feel we can do but it does not seem like it is enough.
Thank you for reading this it feels good to know that i am not aloneView Thread
Should your child have similar issues be VERY careful giving him or her this stuff. If it does them good, wonderful. For my son, he went form being aggressive and a bit destructive to a violent psychopath that obviously cannot control anything about himself. He has also attacked me as well as my 7 year old boy. My wife has locked herself in the bedroom out of fear of him. And right now the pediatrician says the only thing we can do is take him to the E.R. and have them sedate him and give us some sedatives until the psychiatrist gets back to us. she is in California and not easy to get in touch with, so it could be days before we get any help from her.
Please, please be careful with this stuff. It can make life wonderful for everyone if it works right, but if it doesn't it opens the gates of hell on you.View Thread
We had him on Geodon --20mg at first then upped to 40mg in conjunction with 30mg Vyvanse for the ADHD. He was still having rage episodes, so bad that sometimes it took 3 workers plus me to restrain him so he wouldn't hurt anybody or himself. The rage outbursts were better last year, but over the summer have exploded! So, yesterday we moved him to Abilify - 1mg to start with 20mg of Geodon, then after a week, will take the Geodon away and up the Abilify to 2mg. I've read the posts on Abilify and am terrified!
We go to a therapist, but he always seems calm and collected when we're there. I worry things won't get better, or will get worse. Thank you everybody for supporting one another! I need this.
Has anybody had luck with changing diets for their bipolar children?View Thread
I refused it mostly because I didn't want that to be my first option. I went for numerous school meetings from head start-now as she is getting ready for 5th grade. Through 2nd grade, I tried to get the school to help me figure out ways to help her succeed with our medications. Find a way to help her learn, try techniques first before asking I medicate her. My daughter did so poorly with grades from Kindergarten up. It was heart breaking to watch. She tried so hard and the more it went on the more her self esteem decreased. Finally we went to the pediatrician.
The Dr tells me that she believes ADHD is symptematic of something more that she isn't comfortable treating it. I asked numerous times for her to ellaborate on this. Why didn't she tell me sooner, if she saw "things" that led her to this suspicion. I did not want to jup the gun and go to a physciatrist right away. I found another pediatrician who agreed to TRY the meds first. The worst happened......exactly what both pediatricians told me would if there was an underlying issue. My daughter was so angry, and mad about any and everything. She was so hard to be around. Relationships with her teachers, friends, siblings, parents, even bystanders in a store would be subject to her anger. We were refered to the Treatment Center for Children in Richmond, VA.
There we have been for the last year and a half! A long year and a half! This is such a huge nightmare for us and we struggle to find the right treatment for her. She will be 10 next month and is now in full blown puberty which is proving to make the problem that much more challenging. We have had to switch medications several times. She is under an IEP at school and has been since the beginnning. Her grades this past year were b and c all the way which are the best ever!
Sadly, we aren't in a stable place still. We had some problems with her crying significantly for days a time for no reason that she could speak of. Dr beleived it to be some depression. She is really low, ( sad, crying, not wanting to do anything, really high, (more excited than should be for things, hyper, silly when it comes to boys, or extremely angry, hurtful, and mean. Ughhhhh I don't know what to do.
Her Psyciatrist is reccommending therapy as well to aid in her treatment. I am trying to find the appropriate place. I need to learn to deal with her better and handle the situations that sometimes are so overwhelming especially after a long day at work. RACSB is our area community services board. I am beginning the process there, but am not sure of it. They handle substance abuse, kids with behavior problems, parents who drink, do drugs, or abuse kids and kids of abuse mostly. I am worried of the best place for her to get help on controlling what she can of the moods.
I don't know who to talk to about this. I want her to grow and be happy, successful. I saw one post where the child was stable for a year. I long for 1 year.....
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I wrote the post concerning our 25 year old. Thanks!View Thread
Our son is 25 and living at home, does not work, says he has tried to apply but no luck. It's not enough. His past 5 years have consisted of dropping out of college in his second year, meeting a young woman who had her own problems that became explosive for the two of them and had a child together who they raised (unhealthily) for the first three years. Unfortunately neither took responsibility for their lives or their actions and neither is raising our grandchild who is now 5. Both continue to be 'victims' of their own doing. Our son went to seek treatment for depression having checked himself into a hospital about three times since the relationship split. During this relationship ALL expenses, down to having their own CC were paid for them and they had absolutely NO responsibilities except keeping an eye on their baby and allowing our grandchild to be in an unhealthy environment due to their very unhealthy and selfish choices.
It was told to me later my son tested to see what might be wrong with him. He said bipolar with mostly depression, and schizoprehnea that he wasn't worried about how to control. He said it was easy to manipulate the doctors and had medication. He came to live with us, there were initial problems with alcohol that we were unaware of and forbade after an episode. We gave him a chance to try to fix his mistakes during and after the relationship, problems that he brought on himself. He felt they were too heavy to handle but his dad encouraged him to get them over and put them behind him, recently he did. He hadn't been on any medications these past several months and seemed to be doing just fine. He chooses to sleep and stay in his room, read and do things on his computer only coming down to eat for about 20 minutes a day. He is pleasant around family but.. he avoids his dad and I and telling us of any progress he is or obviously isn't making with the job search.
He tells us he wants to check in to ECS for depression, granted I believe he does have some but it does not appear to be to a severe degree. He only gets uptight when he is expected to get on with his life and try to make a go of it on his own.
Is there anything you can think of that gives him an excuse not to? He has no physical handicaps and if it's depression, is that excuse enough not to work? He tells us the minimum about his attempts at looking for work or even what a doctor says. He is insured through us for less than a year, after that we can no longer help him.
He is not a problem really until it comes to asking him about getting on with his life and taking some responsibility. We are having a hell of a time trying to convince him to do anything. He says it won't help anything anyway. He isn't paying a thing for the child he gave up and acts like he was the one done wrong when he could have worked however many jobs it took to raise him! But.. he lives the 'poor me' mentality and can't seem to get past it!
I am thinking maybe we need to find a counselor who can also tell him that he NEEDS to get on with his life. It is weighing on my husband and I to know the right thing to do. We support him because he is our son and we love him but we feel like presently we are only serving to enable him. He will not see to helping himself!
He left tonight because he was very angry that we questioned him about what the dr. told him and he quite matter of factly told us he does not feel he should have to work. Any help or suggestions to get us all out of this downward spiral are welcome. Thank you. It is also causing me personally some very deep depression, I feel my hands are tied and it's equally hard on my husband although he has in all fairness tried to be a wonderful example and give the best advice to our son he knows, as well as the patience to wait it out and see if things would change. They have not...
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