I am new to this site. My son has a possible diagnosis of bipolar disorder. He was diagnosed with ADHD, anxiety, depression and then bipolar disorder as a middle schooler. By high school his diagnosis was generalized anxiety disorder. He is now 22 years old and in college. He lives in a dorm about 5 hours away from home. He has had problems over the years with what we thought were depression and anxiety. He would call from school crying, wanting to come home. We have always reassured him that he can come home but encourage him to stay at school and finish out the semester first. So far has made it through almost 4 years of college.

He was not going to class a couple of months ago and would call me crying. The Dean of men got involved and has been very supportive. He saw a psychiatric nurse practitioner in the town where he is attending school. She prescribed effexor xr which he took for about 6 weeks but did not feel like it was helping him. He has weaned off the the effexor and is going to start taking Saphris. She said it is a fairly new mood stabilizer.

He has been down this week, not attending all of his classes, calling me crying. Any suggestions on how to help him from those of you who have been there or who have been trying to help? Any experience with Saprhis?

Thanks