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So much anger

Sun, 06/17/2018 - 20:50
Hello. My son is almost 20 years old. He was diagnosed with epilepsy when he was 9. He had a left temporal lobectomy/amygdilalohippocampectomy when he was 12. He takes Tegretol XR 400mg twice a day. His seizures are under control since surgery and while taking the medication. His EEG is still abnormal hence still being on Tegretol. The issue is his constant underlying anger. The smallest, most trivial things set him off. He has punched holes in our walls, one time breaking his hand because there happened to be a stud behind the drywall. Right after he blows up he feels regret but his dad and I are really getting fed up. When we give him an ultimatum, stop tearing up our house, clean up after yourself, be respectful or you'll need to leave, it just makes things worse. We have done everything under the sun to help him. Psychologist (specializing in pediatric Epilepsy) counseling, tried an antidepressant, researched adult psychologists which he wants no part of now that he's an adult. He is our life but we just are getting toward the end of our rope. Is this an issue that is relatively common with epilepsy? I don't want to make his diagnosis an excuse but we need help understanding and, perhaps, some ideas on how to help him. We love him so much.

Comments

I could deal with the

Submitted by Anyone_5b383e6846c78 on Sat, 2018-06-30 - 22:58
I could deal with the seizures. I could deal with the being unable to drive. I could deal with the friendships that have been ruined. I could deal with the thousand 'scripts I take a day. What really bothers me is that those same meds that are supposed to be helping me are only making me into someone I'm not. Everyday I feel myself becoming someone else and there isn't a thing that i can do to stop it. I can feel myself turning more and more into a reckless, angry bitch. I can feel when it flares up  and I know that the part of myself that feels this way is not who I am, but it's who I'm becoming. And all the seizures in the world couldn't compare to feeling yourself drift away like that.

Lamictal is also used as a

Submitted by Anyone_5b383e6846c78 on Sat, 2018-06-30 - 22:58
Lamictal is also used as a mood stabilizer as well as being used for epileptics

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