Posted by cherdi814 on January 1, 2004, at 20:12:35
Hi everyone-
I am a single Mom trying to cope with not one, but two children with depressive problems. My greatest concern is with my youngest daughter who has been diagnosed with Oppositional Defiance Disorder, Bi-Polar, borderline personality and chronic depression. The Bi Polar was diagnosed two years ago and the ODD recently. She has been taking Effexor, Topamaxx and recently Prozac was added. As recent as 3 months ago and continuing, she has had panic and rage attacks, an elevation in aggressive behaviors, paranoia, and almost delusional thinking. It has become almost a psychotic behavior problem! She was placed in an alternative school (8th grade) several weeks ago which seems to aggravate her even more often. I am now the enemy and she can be so amazingly cruel at times...and the times are many. I feel I have lost my daughter and find myself trying to defend even her medication. My question is now, can the medication actually be contributing to her escalated aggressiveness? The doctor took her off the effexor, yesterday and now has raised the topamaxx to 200 mg/day and the prozac to 40 mg/day. Can anyone tell me if this will work on a 14 year-old child? Thanks-
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