Hi all, I'm a member of the bipolar support group but am jumping over here hoping someone might be able to help me out. As background, and so you know I'm not jumping the gun, I have posed this to the bipolar group, the ADHD group and seen a pDoc. I still have no real understanding....

My son is 12. He's always had difficulties, was diagnosed with ADHD at 8 and has been on stimulants for about 3 years more or less. Always with a GP until recently when I took him to my psych (I have Bipolar disorder). I moved him to the psych because he still has emotional regulation problems even with the ADHD meds. He gets aggressive towards himself physically and verbally and is highly oppositional with adults. Anyway, he broke down about six months ago and told me he hears voices.... This would be the part where the ADHD and bipolar groups couldn't really help.... On his 2nd visit to pDoc he talked about the voices and pDoc prescribed risperdone. He hasn't even been on it for a week.

So, all that is the background for my questions. The voices didn't really get me concerned until I heard him answer some of the questions the pDoc asked. Turns out the voice tells him to do things towards his family that aren't real great if you know what I mean (I'm paranoid about putting this in print so don't want to quote). He also said he gets paranoid that strangers are out to hurt him. So, my question is around understanding the voice. He says the voice is his voice but does not come from within his head. Sometimes he says it's just out of his head, but sometimes it's not. ??? He says it's not thoughts, but a voice. The voice tells him negative things 100% of the time, and is strongest when he's very sad or very happy. Once he attacked the dog and later said that it was the voice egging him to do it. I don't think it was just an excuse....he wasn't even in trouble because I could see he did because he was suffering, if that makes sense. Anyway, I don't understand the voice. I can't make sense of I t and don't know what to do or how concerned to be. So far the risperdone hasn't fixed the voice.

Ok, basically I just rambled on and on. I hope that's ok here and I hope maybe someone can help me understand or maybe help me help him. I searched voices and this seemed to be the group whom gets that!

Thanks so much,
P&G