My 16 year old son has depression and
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My 16 year old son has depression and
| Sat, 04-17-2004 - 1:06pm |
he is also bi-polar. He was hospitalized in March for 2 weeks, but I do not like how he was treated at the hospital. He is blind, and did not use his cane to travel independtly the entire time he was there. He had people waiting on him and was allowed to pretty much do whatever he wanted. And when he got out of control they would just medicate him. The hospital wanted to release him after 5-6 days but he had a fit and so they let him stay another week. He left the hospital taking Zoloft, Seroquel, Ativan and Trazadone. He has still been having mood swings and so I took h im to my family doctor, who switched his meds to Symbyax, Xanax XR and he still takes the Trazadone because he)does not sleep without it. Yesterday, my youngest son, Ryan's cat was killed here (horrible accident, she was crushed under a door). We were all upset -I was trying to find an emergency clinic for the cat, and Chris shut himself up in the bathroom and cut his wrists with a razor blade. The cuts were superficial and I was able to get him cleaned up and took him to see his therapist. He wanted to go to the hospital, but I told him that I wanted him to stay at home and just see how it went. I am pretty upset with him now, I feel like it is very selfish of him to turn something horrible that happened into another "all about me" thing, which he is so accustomed to doing with everything. Ryan was VERY upset and so was I, when he did this. I do not understand this behaviour. Are the meds just not working???? Does not not understand that he is not the only person in this house who has needs???? Everytime he is upset he cuts his arms up. Maybe he should go back into a hospital, I don't know. This time I would put him into a mental health facility, not a regular hospital. I am still upset about the cat, and Ryan, I did not spend anytime at all with Ryan after he got back from the vet because of Chris.

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