Hi,
A brief background, my 15 year old daughter appeared fine until February, when she told her school that she was suicidal. In hindsight, there have been highs and lows before but this time it really came out of the blue.
We went private and have had a roller coaster of a few months. She was initially prescribed melatonin to help sleep and citralopram as an antidepressant. Which increased the suicidal thoughts and a couple of nights in hospital. Citralopram stopped and started respiridone. Which stabilised the swings from hyper to very low but stayed low.
About a fortnight ago she started amtriptyline but same effects as citralopram and suicidal thoughts came straight back. That was stopped and we are now trying lamotrigine.
Just wondering is anyone has been through similar.