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August 1, 2006, 1:46 pm PDT
 Quote From: momfromnc I watch DrPhil every day but today's episode of the bipolar disease really got my asking myself questions about my daugther. She is a 11 year old ... dignosed with ADD and ADHD about 4 years ago ... She also have a mild case of cerebral palsey as well (which means she DOES NOT need help at all in the state of North Carolina) ... she has had it since birth ... just gets better and its going in the other direction right now ... During spring break this past school year, my daugther got to spend her's in the 10th floor of our local hospital (which is the Children and Adolescent Psychiatry department). You see my daugther has heard voices talking to her for years ( at least for the last 4 or 5 years ... she started to talk about them) ... 5 voices all together but only that is "bad". She can tell you anything you want to know about this person that she hears. From what she wears ... what she looks like ... to what her house looks like on the inside ... The "bad" one is now intruding her to hurt me, her grandma and her brother ... Knives and guns she says ...She was ready to get help ... so I took her ... She was in the hospital for a week and all they wanted to do was dope her up . I told them to release her and I could do that at home with benedryl (which I would NEVER do) but to just show them how stupid I thought they were. After that ... they scheduled her an appointment at a recoverly center here in Winston Salem, NC. They are helping her more than the hospital but to start with they were going to asset her for bipolar ... Talking to the Dr and he is saying schizophrenia. I wrote all of this to ask this one question ........ Is there a difference in bipolar and schizophrenia? If so ... could someone please tell me ... I want them to help her but help her with what it "truely" wrong with her. Thank You in Advance
BP1 can have schizoaffective disorder attached to it. Sometimes children are misdiagnosed ADHD when they have bipolar. It sure looks suspicious when your daughter has both ADHD and schizophrenia. There are many medications that are used for both schizophrenia and bipolar. If she really has BP1 and is manic, benadryl will not knock her out for long--been there, tried that. BP in children is usually characterized by wild, aggressive, outrageous behavior. They often don't have the ups and downs one normally thinks of with having bipolar. Hope this helps. |
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July 13, 2008, 12:49 am PDT
Quote From: momfromnc I watch DrPhil every day but today's episode of the bipolar disease really got my asking myself questions about my daugther. She is a 11 year old ... dignosed with ADD and ADHD about 4 years ago ... She also have a mild case of cerebral palsey as well (which means she DOES NOT need help at all in the state of North Carolina) ... she has had it since birth ... just gets better and its going in the other direction right now ... During spring break this past school year, my daugther got to spend her's in the 10th floor of our local hospital (which is the Children and Adolescent Psychiatry department). You see my daugther has heard voices talking to her for years ( at least for the last 4 or 5 years ... she started to talk about them) ... 5 voices all together but only that is "bad". She can tell you anything you want to know about this person that she hears. From what she wears ... what she looks like ... to what her house looks like on the inside ... The "bad" one is now intruding her to hurt me, her grandma and her brother ... Knives and guns she says ...She was ready to get help ... so I took her ... She was in the hospital for a week and all they wanted to do was dope her up . I told them to release her and I could do that at home with benedryl (which I would NEVER do) but to just show them how stupid I thought they were. After that ... they scheduled her an appointment at a recoverly center here in Winston Salem, NC. They are helping her more than the hospital but to start with they were going to asset her for bipolar ... Talking to the Dr and he is saying schizophrenia. I wrote all of this to ask this one question ........ Is there a difference in bipolar and schizophrenia? If so ... could someone please tell me ... I want them to help her but help her with what it "truely" wrong with her. Thank You in Advance
Dear Mom From NYC, I am the lady who's son was so manic that when he was 24 he left town, bought a new car, wrecked it by broadsiding a woman. We found out about a year ago that he thought that his car could fly through the other one. This son has either schizoaffective disorder and bi-polar, or he is schizophrenic. We haven't gotten the same answer from anyone yet but we think it is the first. Either one is terrible. I don't wish this on anyone's family. So far after about 4 years time, we have spent a quarter of a million dollars on getting our son out of the "system" and have him three hours away by car. We go and visit him once a month and he has been home twice. We are hoping to get him home for my husband's 60th birthday in a few weeks. Everything has to be approved by the court in another state. We are very thankful he is alive but every day we think about the poor woman who lost her life and who's son doesn't have a mom. He was 20 at the time. My son only started getting bad in his late teens. We had no clue until about 17 or 18. His brother however was a different story. He gave us trouble from the age of two on.....We even had to send him to a school away from home for about 1 1/2 years. He was very smart but didn't make friends too easily. He made them in college where he flourished but we didn't know he had bi-polar although his aunt on my husband's side did. he had been on medicines for Tourette Syndrome since he was 12 or 13. Therefore he was under better control as he got older. He has had several bouts of mania but none as bad or wild as my youngest son. The youngest is now 28 and is managing his illness with Lamictil, Risperdal, and some other drugs. He is doing so much better. He believed Brittney Spears was his girlfriend and that she would talk to him from the tv.This started at age 18. He had been in and out of hospitals and was an angel until his mid teens. You see that it just isn't always predictable like you would think. Please have hope for your daughter and don't give up. I have been told that my husband and I are very strong people and I can assure you that I have had to pull it out of me. The two of us wonder how people who aren't as fortunate as us are able to cope? We don't understand why there isn't more help out there. We recently had our son go on disability.We are hoping that this will help with things. Read the book "Crazy" It is very interesting. I have read several books on this topic. Just keep yourself informed!God Bless. |
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