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Suggest Help For Extreme Mood Swings, Abusive Behaviour, On And Off Physical Abusiveness

i have a sister who has a horrible seemingly uncontrollable temper. She can go from being very amicable to just verbally abusive within seconds or minutes. During these outbursts of anger she yells loudly, uses profanity that would put an old sailor to shame, says demeaning or disrespectful things, tends to repeat herself, and goes on and on without allowing the other person to speak. She never apologizes for these outbursts, and often talks this way to me in front of my children and young grandchildren. On at least one occasion she physically assaulted me. She behaves like a horrible bully and I am concerned about her being around my mother who is 83, because she talks to her in a way that is also disrespectful.
Mon, 16 Dec 2013
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Hi
She appears suffering from a psychiatric disorder called Mania / hypo mania I would have advised my patient to take generic named drug lithum long acting 400 mg bd to start and to go for blood lithium estimatston the level should be between 0.5 to 1.2 mg it shoud not go above 1.2 mg
Before starting and after starting lithum kidney functiond are to be monitored along with tremors in hand
I would have also added Drug generic name Olenzapine 2.5 mg bd to be increased to 5 mg if required

A personal psychistrist consultation may also be considered
take good care do not get scared the disease is treatable
Dr Lal
Psychiatrist
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Suggest Help For Extreme Mood Swings, Abusive Behaviour, On And Off Physical Abusiveness

Hi She appears suffering from a psychiatric disorder called Mania / hypo mania I would have advised my patient to take generic named drug lithum long acting 400 mg bd to start and to go for blood lithium estimatston the level should be between 0.5 to 1.2 mg it shoud not go above 1.2 mg Before starting and after starting lithum kidney functiond are to be monitored along with tremors in hand I would have also added Drug generic name Olenzapine 2.5 mg bd to be increased to 5 mg if required A personal psychistrist consultation may also be considered take good care do not get scared the disease is treatable Dr Lal Psychiatrist