Hi, i've just joined the forum, and i'd
like to introduce myself. My name is
cindy, I like to be called cin... Or if
you have a great, uplifting name, you can
call me that, too! Lol. I have an 8
year old daughter, named nan, and I think
she may be exhibiting some very mild signs
of bipolar disorder, or perhaps some other
mental ailment. Bipolar is very
prominent in our family, on my side, and
her dad's side of the family as well.
Right now, the biggest symptoms are
sleeplessness... She has a very hard time
settiling down to sleep at night, in fact,
it's 2:30 am, and she is still awake,
right now. During school nights, I give
her meletonin to helpher sleep, but she
never stays asleep all night, always wakes
and comes in bed with me, etc. She has,
this past year, had difficulty with
toileting herself, wanting me to go with
her upstairs to the bathroom, had a lot of
seperation anxiety, where she would even
follow me out to get the mail, and so on.
She began wetting on the furniture, or
the floors, where ever she might be, and
saying she "fell asleep". This has
improved somewhat with counseling, but she
still needs me to come to the stairs, and
often wait there or in the middle of the
staircase while she toilets herself. She
has mild mood swings from time to time,
moreso than just ordinary, everyday
irritability, or occasionally an elevated
mood. She's had trouble with wetting
herself at night for quite some time, she
still has accidents several nights a week.
So, that is the basic rundown of what's
been going on in our family... Oh, she's
been "on the list" to see the psychiatrist
since last august... Our county pdoc
resigned in september, and they finally
just found a new one. And her regular
Dr. Is reluctant to start any meds
without a thorough psychiatric evaluation
first... So, the big runaround, and it's
mr. Nobody that does it again!
Anyone have any comments or ideas on any
of this? I'd appreciate any feedback
anyone might have.
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purple333
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 1420 Location: Sydney
Posted: 12-31-03 10:19am
Hi cin (or should that be sin??),
my children have mental health issues on
at least one side of both my & my
husbands family so I have some idea of
what you'er going through. Also my son(8,
9 in 24 days) -it's jan 1st here already
- stared expressing death wishes just
after he turned 7, he also has
unreasonably high expectations of himself
& thinks he's useless & a failure.
As my husband snores (worse than a train)
he sleeps in a separate room to me &
our son has slept in my bed since age 2
(initially due to serious childhood asthma
but then he just wouldn't do, tried
everything, redoing his room - even tried
to bribe him this week with the promise of
his own tv if he starts now sleeping in
his room & stays there - otherwise his
sister (15) could have it - his answer,
no, I don't want you to waste the money
& anyway I want to be with you!!) I
have managed to get him into a fold out
bed beside me at least!!
We have also recently discovered that our
daughter is highly stressed & has
always had unreal expectations of herself
& saw herself as a failure (this from
someone who has just been accepted to
university at age 15!!)
our daughter's psychiatrist hs her on 5htp
(a natural substance which the body makes
from tryptophan which is in lots of our
foods, but which isn't made when our
brains chemistry is out of whack) so I
would suggest you look this up on-line -
our daughter is on 50mg at night with
food, her weight is about 80lbs. If you
want moer information just post again with
questions.
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esperance
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 18 Jan 2004 Posts: 1 Location: Montreal
Being Bepolar And Having a Trouble of Personnality??? Posted: 01-18-04 11:51am
Hi, I have a question to ask you folk. I
want to know if having a border
personnality can be part of the bipolar
disease? I was tolk I was bipolar, than I
was told that could be a lot more a
borderline personnality problem. Can you
tell me someone if it's the same? And is
it normal to be only on a drog therapy and
having no other specific individual help.
Please tell me, i'm pretty discouraged as
I have difficulty to handle my life
properly. And who can direct us to the
right ressources, I mean the good one for
us.
Esperance
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Galoo
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 6 Location: Canada
Posted: 02-29-04 10:30am
Welcome i'm a newbie as well. This forum
has been my savior! I've been reading
through it like mad! Lot's of information
and it's great to know i'm not alone! :d
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purple333
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 1420 Location: Sydney
Posted: 02-29-04 11:40am
Esperance,
personality disorders & bi-polar etc
are very strange things & different
drs have different views on both diagnosis
& treatment.
Drs are mechanics, nothing more & just
like the mechanic who works on your car
some over specialize, some don't keep up
to date, some have their own thing (every
woman over 35 who's stressed is
menopausal, no consideration given to any
other possible causes)some like to try all
the latest drugs, some prefer counselling
or hypnotherapy & some are very very
good across a range of problems & they
consider them all & they also consider
the individual & their history before
deciding on treatment.
I don't think anyone here knows enough to
"diagnose" you but I would suggest that
you use search engines like google &
yahoo to look up bi-polar, personality
disorder & any medications you're on,
also search under such queries as - what
medical conditions cause "....." symptoms
etc. This will give you more information
about these conditions, the drugs &
your symptoms. I'd also look under
natural & homeopathic remedies for
personality disorders & bi-polar &
any specific symptoms you have. You can
then take this information & see if
you think you are being given the right
treatment & for that matter whether
you feel the diagnosis is accurate.
Many people reseach vitamin, minerals
& natural remedies & find that
they do alot better using these than they
ever did on prescription meds. Don't
misunderstand me, i'm not suggesting you
just stop taking meds - you should however
check things out, look at the
alternatives, look at the diagnosis &
consider whether it fits you. If you have
beenon meds for a year or more & are
no better then what good are the meds????
You ask about right resources &
handling your life properly but the
answers to that need alot more information
about you, age, general health,
activities/work/hobbies/family/support
people etc; also in what ways are you
precisely having trouble handling your
life. Can you leave the house or are you
scared to, the advice would be different
depending on all these sorts of things.
