Health

he started acting sometimes aggressive, sometimes depressed. One day he almost completely destroyed is bedroom.. I called the hospital closest to us that had a mental ward. They sent someone out and after viewing the destruction, she did the paperwork for an involuntary committal. That was only 5 days while they evaluated him. He came home after that with diagnoses that he was acting out because of the death of his brother and was to see a psychologist once a week for therapy. I took him for a couple months and he did not improve. Then one day he said " Mom, you are wasting your money. He falls asleep every week and I have to wake him at the end of the session." I did a little investigating and found out the doctor had narcolepsy. I went to a number of doctors. They told me he was probably experimenting with drugs. I knew better. Then one day, in a fit of rage he started breaking things in the kitchen. I called the police. The put him in handcuffs and drove him to a different hospital. By the time my hubby and I got there, he had already been examined. The doctor came out and said he did not think it was a mental problem, but was probably physical. We signed commitment papers knowing that since the doctor found a problem, he would not have to come home in 5 days.
They did a couple tests and found he had a lesion on his brain that was causing something like an epileptic seizure in the part of the brain that controls emotions. He had probably had a concussion at one time that did not heal. The doctor kept him for a couple weeks and put him on a drug used to treat epilepsy because the seizures were keeping it from healing and the lesion could not heal because of the seizures. Even after just a couple weeks he was a different person.
He had been kicked out of school so the doctor wrote a letter that I took to the school and he graduated with a tutor coming to the house.
He celebrated his 50th birthday last year, has a really good career and an epic work ethic. He was weaned off the drug after 18 months.
It had taken over a year of doctors giving the wrong diagnoses. During that time he punched holes in almost every door in the house, broke a lot of furniture, tried to drown himself in our pond, been kicked completely out of school and any little thing would set him off.
So Cloe is not the only person that was treated wrong. I am really glad she found a good doctor. It is a shame it was not sooner.