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Brain Zaps

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Well, crud.  The boy is having brain zaps.  And they are pretty bad today.
From what I’ve read this evening I think they must be coming from the Seroquel.  He does not take it every day but rather only when he needs it.   However, with the recent stress from school he has been taking it [...]

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Too Much Depakote

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Well, we now know that there is too much of a good thing.
At our last psychiatrist visit we collectively decided to bump up Rye’s Depakote a bit in hopes of eliminating the need for the occasional use of Seroquel.  I’m not a bit fan of the atypical antipsychotics and Rye’s psychiatrist feels its optimal not [...]

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The Psychiatric Hospital: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

Monday, June 14, 2010

Well, it’s been 2 weeks and we are now home from Rye’s inpatient hospitalization.  What a ride this has all been.  In fact, we got home yesterday and my head is still spinning and I’m not even sure I can write a decent post.  But here goes…
What was good about the hospital?

It seems to have [...]

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The Fragility Of Reality

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

The perception of reality is something that people without mental illness take for granted.   Myself included.  For Rye however, in times of unbalance,  it can be a precarious perception.  For days now, maybe weeks even, he has been agitated and in and out of reality.  Yesterday, in response to a period of intense aggravation, his doctors started [...]

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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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