Posted by phidippus on March 2, 2015, at 13:16:06
In reply to Desperate - 9yo anger/aggression/outbursts, posted by TM2 on February 10, 2015, at 20:42:01
What is medically wrong with her knee?
Before putting her on Risperdal I would seriously consider putting her on Lithium before anything else.
Lithium has been used as a mood stabilizer and has been used to treat bipolar disorder and augment antidepressants in the treatment of depression. Lithium has also been used to control the violent outbursts of IED-intermittent explosive disoder-and TBI-traumatic brain injury.
Lithium works best in a range, which means blood testing is necessary (.6 to 1.2 is the blood level lithium is most effective at). If you have too much lithium in your blood, you can become toxic, however it is difficult to become toxic enough that you experience damaging effects. I have had a level of 4.8 and was very sick but no permanent damage was done.
If your daughter experienced brain damage because of the virus she was infected with, it may have affect her pre-frontal cortex which controls things like anger outburts. If your daughter is bipolar, she will have deficits in her PFC, which result in the same kind of behavior. I am bipolar and as a child had many angry outbursts as a child.
Lithium, I think, is the most logical choice for you.
Have you seen a neurologist?
Eric
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