My dd is currently in a hospital under a 72 hr (or longer) hold. She tried to commit suicide recently, and has been experimenting w/cutting. ****sigh**** She is almost 22 and has been dx w/Asperger's, w/comorbids being major depression, OCD, GAD, Psychosis NOS, and a warped sense of reality (dx almost a year ago). She has been holding down a job at Wmart (they are GREAT w/her disability!) for over a year. In July, her Gma died a very traumatic death here at our house. Then my dd lost her whole paycheck (in cash, no less), and that's when she tried to strangle herself. She has been spiraling downward since her Gma's death. Then we took a perfectly horrible trip to KY a couple of weeks ago. It was really hard on her. She told me Sunday night that "this time I won't want to jump out a window(she almost did when she went off to college) because we have plenty of pills. That'll do it just fine." Obviously the first thing I did was to call her psychiatrist. She is on meds (anxiety, Abilify, Cogentin--because she has a rare reaction to Abilify, and Prozac), and they are trying to see if her levels are off. We are also concerned that she may have a double whammy of also having Bipolar Disorder. Her Gma was a severe manic depressive so we cannot ignore the genes here. My dd sees a therapist at an Autism Intervention Group once a week to work on executive functioning.
BTW, we knew she had AS all her life (well, we knew she was wired differently, but didn't have a label as AS girls are frequently misdiagnosed), but when she went 900 miles away to a liberal arts college, the SHTF and it triggered all of her comorbids. That was 3 yrs ago. She lives w/us, and I just need to talk to some other parents who have btdt w/their Aspie.
Oh, and when she comes home, all pills of any kind will be kept at a trusted neighbor's house so she won't have access. I had to do this a few times when her Gma was alive because she was a suicidal pill-seeker too.
BTW, we knew she had AS all her life (well, we knew she was wired differently, but didn't have a label as AS girls are frequently misdiagnosed), but when she went 900 miles away to a liberal arts college, the SHTF and it triggered all of her comorbids. That was 3 yrs ago. She lives w/us, and I just need to talk to some other parents who have btdt w/their Aspie.
Oh, and when she comes home, all pills of any kind will be kept at a trusted neighbor's house so she won't have access. I had to do this a few times when her Gma was alive because she was a suicidal pill-seeker too.
I am so sorry for what you and your DD are going through. I don't have an experience to share, but it does sound like you are doing lots of things right.
I wish I had words of wisdom for you... hopefully someone else with experiences to share will chime in...
