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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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Disheartened

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Well, I’ll tell you, we are having a great time on our trip.  I will say, though, that on this trip I have been spending quite a bit of time reading blogs, reading books, and reading articles  in the evenings when the world becomes quiet.
And I am disheartened.
This week I was asked to speak on [...]

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Baby Steps

Friday, May 14, 2010

Just a quick post to say we are seeing a little progress.  Rye is off the Abilify today as he took it for 2 days and it did calm the extreme mania but made him feel bad so now he is just on the Depakote and the Depakote is starting to kick in.  Rye is [...]

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Mania vs Hypomania

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

For us, here’s the difference:
Hypomania : Silliness, laughing, hyper, fast talking,  slight pressure, funny voices, funny faces, exceedingly happy, hyper, overactive but fun to be around, creative, productive, loving, irritability but it passes
Mania: hitting, spitting, yelling, destroys property, lifts furniture, pressure, pressure, pressure, swearing, threatening, extreme irritability, broken or little sleep, bad choices, seems to [...]

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Antidepressant [SSRI] Stories And Dangers

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Well, I had a post in mind for today but then I sat down to the computer to write and changed my mind.  I received this comment from Shila on Goodnight Moon, Goodnight Seroquel and had to change my direction.
I’m fourteen, and after a recent suicide attempt overdose on Wellbutrin, I had to stay at [...]

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Child Psychiatry: A Real Science?

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

The whole subject of psychiatry and child psychiatry in particular has been heavily weighing on me lately.
I mean, do these doctors know what they are doing?  I know they try but so many symptoms in children and even teens can be misread, misunderstood, misdiagnosed and overpathologized.  Much more so than with adults.  I know every [...]

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Far Away Eyes

Friday, January 29, 2010

Well, I guess I should have seen it coming but Rye fell apart yesterday morning after coming home sick from school with a bad cold.  Mania revisit.  Without going into all of the details, it was not good.
Once you’ve seen the far away eyes of mania, you never forget it.  It’s haunting.
Despite my saying previously [...]

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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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