Posted by Minnie-Haha on January 28, 2005, at 13:37:08
In reply to Re: Trileptal and Zoloft for Bipolar II, posted by stresser on January 28, 2005, at 13:03:36
> I forgot to add this in my last post....my daughter's grades have been falling in the past year, but her MMPI said she is not ADD or ADHD. The Pdoc won't give her adderall or anything like that to help her concentrate, will the trileptal help her with being motivated to work harder in school? She has gone from being an achiever to someone who really doesn't care much. She's very bright, and throwing her chance at college away at the moment. She's never had to work hard for much, and now things aren't coming very easily for her, so it's a new game. She doesn't know how to play it at all....and we cannot get through to her. Her pdoc said she was a 4/9 on the MMPI. Do you understand anything about the scoring? He told me a little about that.-L
No, I don't understand about the scoring, but I have a grown son who is very bright and dropped out of high school just months before graduating. My other son has been identified as gifted and he is doing OK academically so far, but he starts middle school next year and I am a little worried about him. He has an IEP (Individualized Education Plan) for a Speech-Language Impairment for pragmatics (basically, the social use of language) and he struggles a bit with writing assignments, too, though we've been working hard on that and it's improving. He ALMOST seems like an Asperger's Syndrome kid, but he doesn't quite fit... probably somewhere on the spectrum.
Do you mind if I ask some questions? How old is your daughter? When did her problems begin? What kinds of evaluations has she had done? By what kinds of professionals?
Dr Bob will probably move this to the Social board or ??? but wherever this thread goes, I'd like to communicate with you for a while and see if I can help you. I've researched this stuff a lot in the last 2 years and maybe I'll have some insights for you that you haven't had.
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