Posted by frenchy on July 8, 2001, at 8:36:17
My 17 year old daughter just went into the Vol. Clinic...she's very bi-polar...and at the absolute bottom. SHe was talking about ending it all....crying out to go to the clinic. thought it was going to be a vacation away from her medling parental units....she was taking Neurotin and it made her moods bland...so she started to take herself off it, and this was at an emotional time with the loss of closeness with a boyfriend, possible new boyfriend, typicical and school pressure....SAT scores and re taking tests and work....so much to worry about she did not want to deal with it....she's a GT student, honors....little things to her were growing into giant mountains...
We love our daughter...we/I want her stable and caring about herself and family...with boosted spirits...not just manic. She was great before all this dark chat room and open-diary stuff. Her friends have dropped her. She became quasi-gothic.
How are you all coping with your children?
Have you all heard of these meds and do they work?
Will she need to be on them forever? Or can she think around the mood swings?
Please help.
Frenchy
Also....
She went in and they are trying Welbutrin , Valproate, Trazodone...and tonight after not sleeping because of the weird environonment and noise and snoring roomate...and just being scared...she was give a small dose of Riserdal .25 mgs to calm here down.She is so scared and wants to come home and just sleep.
She keeps calling and begging me to come and take here home so she can sleep...They can't release her....
poster:frenchy
thread:260
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/child/20000813/msgs/260.html