Set Backs

I have finally finished school and will attend graduation on November 3rd. It has been a long and exhausting process, but for now it is complete. My son has suffered a set back. After doing so well for the past year and getting off to a fabulous start at the begining of the school year. Perhaps it was the stress from the school load, the medication or just the change of season. I am not sure we will ever really understand what happens when the mind fractures or how to put it back together. Jordan, now 13, was on seven medications and had been stable and doing very well. Now he is down to three medications. When he experienced his latest episode the only answer was to eliminate a medication. There were too many in his system to add another safely. The psychiatrist chose to add the new EM/SAM patch which is an MAO Inhibotor. So that meant eliminating Wellbutrin, Lexapro, Strattera, and a portion of the Lamictal. It was a rough task, but Jordan survived it. He is becoming more stable on the new medication. He is back to school, but it will be a while before he reaches where he was before this latest episode. It is difficult when we can not understand what has happened inside the mind and why it took place so suddenly without notice. Perhaps it has something to do with the seasonal changes or puberty but I guess we will never know.