conduct disorder in children

I am a newbie to this site and don't even know what a difficult child is! :anxious: My 20 yr old daughter just "graduated" from a 6 week rehab hospital and is now in a women's recovery house in Georgia for at least a year. I came across this site tonight and really would love support from other parents of...

It's not just feeding but allowing him to shower and nap for hours. My husband ( his step-dad ) has kicked him out of the house even though he has 2 upcoming trial dates..for using pot, having it on him, resisting arrest and I think driving under the influence. We make him pay for his own car...

Hi everyone, I haven't posted in some weeks since my son entered a diagnostic residential program at a facility in Pennsylvania on Jan. 2. Before he left, he was just a mess: smoking weed several times a day, refusing to attend high school, refusing to follow his dad's and my household rules...

Hi All New here but not new to the problems! I have two children - once is ADHD/Conduct Disorder, the other is ADHD and a provisional of Dystemia. He is my worry right now. A couple weeks shy of 15 and I just feel like he is slipping away from me. I highly suspect drug and or alcohol use. In...

Thank God I found this site! I am so desperate to talk to others with similar children. My son is turning 15 next month. He's been a handful since the age of 3. His diagnoses- Tourette's, ADHD, ODD, Anxiety, and this year conduct disorder. He does not have one credit this year as a freshman. He...

So after difficult child moved out I decided I wasn't going to deal with her **** anymore. I wasn't going to bend over backwards for her and I wasn't going to get treated like ****. This weekend just reinforced it all. I got sucked back in and decided to take her prom dress shopping because my parents had...

I have read most of your posts and received some of my own from you. Although we at this board welcome any and all input, i have noticed your posts to be very negative and judgmental. Please introduce yourself, with a signature, and tell us who you, where you are coming from, and what you know...

Dear friends are in the process of making their will, and need to establish who would raise their children "if something ever happened." ...They want us. That is the biggest compliment anyone can give me... ...Especially now!!!! These friends KNOW what is going on with our difficult child's...

I posted here back in July I think. I had a tough summer "detaching" from my 33 year old son. I have enabled him for years and he is barely working if at all, just failing as an adult in a major way. It is like ground hog day talking to him, which I do A LOT less than I ever did before. He...

I wrote my daughter a very carefully worded letter about how I feel she has thrown me under the bus in our relationship. My husband has been saddled with her $100,000 student loan as she has defaulted. Actually, she doesn't make payments. He's made them all. Tonight I read a letter that...

Hello, I just joined this site and still learning how to navigate and find what I need. I am looking for other parents who have had to deal with oppositional/defiant behaviors. My son just turned 18 and had a psychiatric evaluation with diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder. Ive been reading and...

I am new to this forum, as of yesterday, and I have already derived some comfort from what I am reading. My story is this: my difficult child daughter is hitting rock bottom, personally, financially and emotionally. She has always been the outsider, the loner, since middle school. At least that is how...

Let's just say that our 31 year old daughter has stolen our future and call it that. There is no chance that she has missed an opportunity to steal from us. She has 2 great kids that are 10 and 6. We have been as much parents to them as grandparents. We found out just before the holidays that...

I have read this forum for the last several years whenever I have felt sad, depressed, or unable to cope. I think I finally need to share my story because I see a lot of support here and feel like I could use some advice from people that have been there and done that. I have three children...

Having a good morning, Tuesdays I get an extra half hour to laze in bed, don't have to start Kiddo's breakfast until 6am. Whee. So I cleaned my little bathroom, thought about what I want to do to brighten it up, that cheered me some. (I'm in a down mood stretch, chewing my legs over June when...

We just got news that our son is in jail. Don't know the particulars, but assume alcohol is involved. He was on parole so guess he will be looking at serving all his time. Not sure how much he has left, but if he has another felony going it will mean he will be determined to be a habitual...

I have an 18, almost 19 year old son whom is homeless. Recently my husband and I gave him our old van so now he parks wherever he can and sleeps for the night. He has a fulltime job amd makes pretty good. He has substance abuse problems so he is ALWAYS broke... My question is how does this...

I adopted my son when he was 4. He lived in a foster home because his mother was on drugs. When the adoption was finalized I found out she died. My son has always been a challenge. The social worker told me that the kids living in the foster home were manipulative. The foster mother was...

It's over a year since I've seen difficult child-daughter face to face. It's almost a year since I've seen difficult child-ds face to face. There is a full range of every kind of emotion you can imagine. Their behavior is "classic" Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD). He-inhibited Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)/ She-disinhibited Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD). I find it interesting that they each have...

My oldest son is 31 and has never lived on his own. He hasn't lived with me for eight years however. I spent several years encouraging him to get a job and plan for his future. He had no desire for college. He bounced from job to job to job. He refused to "work" his way up to a good position. He...