Posted by worriedmom2 on April 23, 2010, at 8:38:05
My teenage son has an ASD though at the very high end - variously dx'd with AS, NVLD, Semantic-Pragmatic Disorder etc along with a huge co-dx of Anxiety Disorder which has led to OCD/disordered thinking.
Anyway, an academic superstar, but alone socially. This didn't seem to bother him much until this year...he became clinically depressed with suicidal ideations. We pulled him from his school and got him into an acute assessment facility.
He is doing MUCH better and self-reports he no longer feels depressed but anxiety remains a huge issue.
He is on Lexapro which they recently upped to a therapeutic level from an intro level and this certainly could be part of the reason my son is past the depression. re: the anxiety/disoredered thinking -- The med dr there knows that at one point in the recent past we gave a month trial to Risperdal and it was awful - totally flat affect in demeanor and speech and appetite and large weight increase. So, given that, the dr is suggesting Invecta which even he admits is pretty much the active part of Risperdal. Yet, he says for reasons noone can explain some clinical evidence supports that some people respond positively to one and not the other.
Has anyone got any information or anecdotal evidence either pro or con?
Thank you.
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