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Abilify, Stimulants, Antidepressants and Suicide

Monday, November 21, 2011

[photo credit: www.thebipolarmarriage.com]
A few years back I wrote about how my son (who was 12 at the time) took Abilify as a stand alone medication for a few months and had suicidal thoughts while he was taking it.   This was unusual for him as he is not a suicidal kid in general and when we [...]

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Abilify, Thoughts of Suicide, Children’s Struggle To Communicate

Friday, January 22, 2010

A few nights ago Don, Rye and I were watching American Idol.  An ad came on for Abilify.  A few seconds into the ad Rye looks at us and says, “What is that medicine they are advertising?”
“Abilify,” I say “that’s the medicine you took to stop hearing things after the Adderall reaction.”
“Oh,” Rye says.  “That’s [...]

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The Nightmares Are Gone

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Well, on the down side I woke up with a really bad cold today so that bites.
On the good side though Don and I were talking last night and we have both noticed that Rye’s nightmares have disappeared.  For weeks now.  At least since before Christmas and including through the trip to New York.  No [...]

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Home Again, Home Again

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

As of today, we are back from our trip to NY.  I’m really tired but we had a great time overall and Rye did really well. Shockingly well, to be honest, because we had an incredibly l.o.n.g  “planes, trains & automobiles-esque” travel time to get there due to some bad weather and this was hard [...]

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This Week In Review

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Well, wow, a lot has happened this week.
First, I got my test scores back from the standardized test I took for the teaching/grad school program to which I recently applied.  I studied relatively hard for the test as I was worried about passing and ended up scoring in the top 15% of all test takers [...]

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