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Lurking around for a couple of days, reading other post and I can so relate to many of them. Never posted on a message board or forum before so if I am messing up, please forgive me. My daughters behaviour problems did not just start suddenly, she has always been a ''hand full.'' She is...

Hi! Thanks for welcoming me to the page. Intro: Son is 8 yrs old, ADHD/ODD, Concerta 27mg. Long history pointing to problem, but wasn't until his 7 yr old check up I finally got a Dr. to recognize the issue and questioned me on his behavior in front of her (finally displayed in front of a...

Hello everyone! :) After reaching new levels of frustration this afternoon I went on google looking for support groups as living in a small town means that local support groups are nonexistent, and I found this site. It is nice to know that even though I may feel alone, I really am not. To...

Last night was ...shall we say difficult..at best. Monday is the one day he has to do his homework at home. The rest of the days the school helps him with it. So he comes home with the equivalent of "Mad Libs" where you fill in the blank and it makes a funny story. And he argues with me about...

difficult child is just flat out refusing to take his medications in the morning. The last week or so he just is totally oppositional about his medications. It has been a battle beyond all battles. husband and I have been both trying relentlessly. He takes two small pills so this makes it even harder. husband and I were...

I'm not sure what the deal is with difficult child. We started risperdal @ .5mg back in October. Saw immediate results. But now, we're starting to see some of her symptons again. We're not sure if its due to the excitement of the holidays and all the **** that's been going on or if we should ask the psychiatrist to...

I have 2 difficult child's. easy child went into to see psychiatrist the other day, and psychiatrist thinks she is dealing with depression, anxiety and probably has attentional issues. She started her on zoloft and trazodone to sleep, will see how she is in a month (hopefully she does well on the zoloft) and then maybe start...

My difficult child eats constantly. He sneaks food behind my back and its driving me crazy. Yesterday he ate 4 little debbie cakes. What am I supposed to do about this? He has been off concerta over the summer and I guess now I am paying for it? I can't afford to go to the store every 5 days because hes eating...

We saw difficult child's psychiatrist today, and starting tommorrow we are trying vvyanse. I am tired of him taking his patch off, and the 15mg patch is not enough and the 20mg is too much. I work about 6hrs tommorrow, so don't feel too bad about going to work tommorrow, but Saturday I work 12hrs and Sunday 8hrs...

I have a son I am so worried about. He is 9, and we've been having trouble with him since he was 5 and entered kindergarten. He attacked children for no reason and with no provocation. He started in kindergarten, and he had not been having problems anywhere else. After a few months in...

difficult child 2 will consistently have the TV on in his room AND his music playing at the same time -- at comparably loud volumes. What is THAT all about? Sometimes he'll also have headphones on and be playing his gameboy unit at the same time! I go in there and tell him he has to choose ONE thing to...

Hi, I am new to this site. Happy I found it because it feels like when I am going through these issues with my son that I am the only one going through it....a very lonely feeling. Son't know where to start, but I guess I will start by saying that my son, who is now 9 1/2 and a 3rd grader, was...

:applause:Yeah for difficult child! School teacher called to say that for the last two days he has done wonderful in psychiatric hospital school! She said that he needs 1:1 at all times (yup) and that it took till yesterday (well he had a lot on his plate so...) for him to be able to stay in the room with other kids...

I am going to describe how manster gets at times and ask for help determining where it stems from. Is it likely from the spectrum? I believe it would be construed as emotional lability or some such term. We had a house full of people. Ones that he enjoys having over, is very comfortable...

We've been having a lot of problems with difficult child 1's behavior the past few months. He provokes his sibs verbally and physically (name calling, poking, spitting, threatening to hit, etc.) and then when they react he gets violent. He is argumentative with both husband and I and gets confrontational and...

:sigh: Where to start. I am Shelly 37 married to Marc 37. Mom to Tharyn 11 (ADHD & ODD & Poss Bi-Polar) Duncan 9. Problems started with Tharyn when he was 5. That's when they diagnosis'd him as ADHD. 2yrs later we got the ODD news. He is on Concerta and has tried other medications too. He is so out of...

Hello. I'm new here. My husband and I have a 6 year old daughter. We adopted her through the foster care system. She came to live with us at 4 months old, but went into foster care directly at birth. Her birth parents are both diagnosed schizophrenic. Birth mother is also bipolar. Birth...

I have overlooked this issue with L for quite sometime but it is definitely getting worse. Anytime anyone is sharing a story about something they did, or a friend did, or they saw on tv, etc. L suddenly has done this same thing or seen the same movie….regardless of how ridiculous it is & how...

My difficult child has a diagnosis of mood disorder and severe ADHD which may or may not be correct. If we go on that, though... I've been told how to change my parenting style (which I'm sick to death of hearing) and how to literally walk AROUND this child. I'm supposed to get down to his level (but far enough...

Hi, I haven't been around for quite a while...I didn't have internet access for a long time. A lot has happened with us in the past few months. difficult child now has a diagnosis of BiPolar (BP) 1, along with Tourette's Syndrome, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and ADHD. He is in a mainstream second grade class with a full-time, 1:1 aide. That worked well last...