I have a 17 year old male with Bipolar disorder he for gets his meds and probably does not want to take them. He has not completely accepted the diagnosis,the suicide,threats of bodly harm .How ,what I do not know if he will be safe on the streets when he turns 18,how can I protect him from him self?

I think I might be having them.

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Many people go through depression at some point in their lifetime. For some people it’s a fleeting thing that comes and goes, but for others it can be crippling. However, there are some things that you can do to help you ward off the depression “bug” and I’d like to share them with you.

Here are Six things that will help you to stop depression in its tracks and help you to keep yourself together.

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I recently lost my job, things with my spouse have been very rough and we have been fighting a lot. I have been using some illegal substances from time to time and also some social drinking. These were not reasons why I lost my job, I was down sized. I’ve never been without work and my finances have never been so low…I felt myself getting very frustrated and crying a lot of the time so I thought some time in the hospital would help me. I had been on 10mg of Lexapro for the past year for anxiety and was using ativan to help me sleep, but only 0.5mg a few nights a week. I spent 5 days in the hospital and a P.A. diagnosed me with bipolar. She says that I was experienceing a manic episode because I was upset that they wouldn’t release me to go to my daughter’s birthday party. I started crying and she said that I was acting manic because I was upset. I literally just sat in the chair and cried because I had never missed her birthday and I felt horrible for disappointing my kid. This was the P. A. ‘s basis for my diagnosis, along with the depression that I was checked in with. I don’t have suicidal thoughts, I don’t have euphoria or thoughts of graduer or anything like that. I see a therapist once a week and he agrees that I do not have bipolar disorder. I take seroquel xr200mg every night. My spouse says that since I’ve been on the meds that I am worse, more irritable, and when I’m not arguing with him I’m sleeping or like a zombie. I can’t think half the time. It’s been almost three months on the meds and I told my physchiatrist that my phsychologist thought I was misdiagnosed. The physchiatrist started yelling at me, told me if I stopped taking my meds that I would commit suicide or kill my kids or end up in the mental hospital again. She says she is going to write a letter to my psychologist to tell him he is nuts and is doing me harm and shoudn’t be my therapist and he’s not a MD so he shoudn’t be giving medical advice. I have been seeing this therapist off and on since I was in my early 20′s, he has known me and my history for a long time and he is convinced that with continued therapy that he can help me through this without long term meds (aside from continuing the lexapro). I have been reading up on seroquel side effects and it scares me to continue taking them. I just want to stop and feel like myself again and have my spouse feel like he has his spouse back again. I have scheduled an appt with a new psychiatrist for August, but I don’t want to take any more meds until I see him. Can I just stop the Seroquel XR? I haven’t seen any bad bad withdrawl effects anywhere on the internet that I can’t handle with the spouse’s support and my weekly therapy sessions. My therapist and I have gone over the symptoms for diagnosis of BP and I don’t have enough to diagnose me as BP, especially now that I am in therapy and have quit the occassional drug usage (it was only once in a while so it was easy to quit). Very light drinking socially now and I just want to get back to myself again….why do I need meds when I spent so many years being happy? I’m just in a bad spot in my life with job and money but I know things will get better, I love my spouse and my kids and I love my life. Things will get better and I know that, I don’t need a pill to know that. I just needed someone to talk to to get through some tough times and reasure myself that I am strong enough to get my family through these struggles without drinking or drugs or meds or any of that. I really feel that the therapist is more helpful than pills, why can’t my psychiatrist understand that?
Is there anyone who has abruptly stopped seroquel xr200mg and what were the withdrawls you experienced?
I should also add that I am on 100mg of Topamax for migraines daily (which is also somewhat of a mood stabilizer). I was not weaned onto the seroquel xr 200mg. This was the dose I was started at while in the hospital. I’m not supposed to cut them in half. My therapist is not telling me to stop my meds, just is advising that I talk to my doc about reducing and eventually stopping them since he doesn’t see anything to support the diagnosis. He has given me all sorts of tests, ink blots and other written tests and verbal psych tests. No symptoms now or in my past tests years ago that point to BP.

i think i just have depression but my doctor says i have bipolar. what happens if i start taking the drugs for bipolar disorder and i dont actually have it

I have reworded a question I asked last week to make it a bit more clearer. Unfortunately I was unable to get any good answers because I probably did not explain exactly what my condition is.

Has anyone that is bipolar (manic depression) ever been on the combo of Lamictal for manic depression and Invega which helps with depression that creeps up while on Lamictal?

I have been getting it for 4-5 years now and they never did a CDR (continuing disability review).

Is there chance that they may cut off my benefits when they do a CDR?

In the absence of research and development many medical ailments were earlier treated as incurable mammoths. Bipolar Disorder is one among them.

Earlier the individuals suffering with this kind of disorder was often regarded as a ‘very moody person’ or in extreme cases the family wrote them off saying that they have become insane. Later on the scientists made us realize that this disorder is a – Manic Depression, also known by the name of – Bipolar Disorder.

Though this disease is not new, along with the name many other things regarding this disease are quite new like the help we can lend to such patients. As its effects can be very wide spread and deadly, the treatment is as crucial.

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