I'm sorry I have been away so long. As many of you know, when a parent of a BP child is away or out of contact for long stretches of time, you can pretty much be guaranteed the child is not stabilized and the parent is spending every waking moment fighting for them. Sadly, that has been the case.
While I was away... my daughter was inpatient for 8 days due to BP Depression and self injury and the pdoc put her (hesitantly) on a low dose antidepressant
- as a side note, BP kids and antidepressants are a
dangerous combination, as it sends them into the opposite end of the spectrum - into a manic phase. That is exactly what happened with my daughter and everything spiraled out of control. A week after being released from the psychiatric hospital she was in the medical hospital overnight on psych eval/suicide watch, she attempted to run away, she self harmed, 911 was called three times; one of the calls (just four days ago) was because the dosage increase of her anti psychotic medicine had the nasty little side effect of causing her to become extremely violent and physically attack me.
I will post the details of our roller coaster ride over the past 2 months shortly.
Wishing you balance.
~Melissa
No comments:
Post a Comment