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.
