conduct disorder in children

I've posted a few times a number ago regarding my difficult child. He's 20 years old now and still occasionally acts like a 10 year old. Still in the drug scene. Pot, prescriptions, heroin, whatever he can get. He's the only child left in the house. He is a walking nightmare. When things aren't going his...

I am the step-father of a 15 year old boy who has been diagnosed Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD), Bipolar, Conduct Disorder, Behavioral Disorder, ADD, Oppositional Defiance Disorder, Emotional Detachment, Depression, and probably a few more. He is currently taking a mix of Lithium, Prozac, and Serequel. Our problem is...

How much does your difficult child know about being a difficult child? Obviously this will be age dependent. As my son gets older this is something that I have thought a lot about. I have never hid anything from him regarding the types of doctors he is seeing neurologist vs psychiatrist vs psychologist but also do...

Hi. I'm Jamie. I have 2 boys ages 3 & 5. The 3yr old has Childhood Apraxia of Speech. He has a handful of sounds he uses to communicate. Some words. We use sign language with him and I understand his language. He just started a developmental preschool and seems to be doing awesome there...

Hello, I am new here and could use some uncensored advice on my son's behavior. A lot of people mean well, but just don't understand what we are going through. My son throws violent temper tantrums at home. The triggers appear to be perfectionistic tendencies, defiance of instructions...

Just thought you guys might be interested - I certainly am as this is being trialed in children and adults with great results. "JBRF received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") to begin the clinical trial of a pharmaceutical agent to treat the symptoms of bipolar...

I put J to bed about 20 minutes ago and he is still awake, chattering to himself. This literally never happens. Today he had his roller skating class and after I picked him he was more defiant and rude than usual, harder to manage, really not listening to me at all. There was a child's...

Yep, that's right. Diagnosed with alphabet soup, Years of counseling, Years of programs, Years of waiting lists, Counselor after counselor, doctor after doctor, psychiatric hospital after psychiatric hospital... And the MST worker "found" the problem. I do not know how to love. Apparently, I could have cured everything years...

Hello. It has been a long time since I was here. I need some "expert" advice. I just cannot go this alone anymore. When my 8 yr old difficult child was two he was diagnosed with epilepsy, shortly thereafter that he had a neuropsychologist evaluation and was diagnosed with ODD. He took Trileptal and Risperidal and...

difficult child escalated with his stealing by opening SO's wallet yesterday and taking $20 from it. difficult child did this while SO was outside working on his car on his day off from work. difficult child was the only one in the house and decided to help himself! We discovered the theft only after he and daughter were picked up by...

My son, 12 yrs old, has a history of diagnoses - ADD, ODD, adjustment disorder. I recently read a post on one of the forums. It was from a young man, a schizophrenic, and his line of thinking just stroke me, that is how my son sees things. He is defiant, sometimes violent, preoccupied with...

Hi, I am new to the board. I am in a very tough place and I found this board and thought that someone here would understand me and have some insight from a been there done that standpoint. I wasn't even going to post because I noticed that tons of you have it way tougher than myself and I already feel like...

Anyone with difficult child around this age willing to share their stories and advice.I've been looking through the posts but am having a difficult time finding posts from parents of childrens with full blown Conduct Disorder. Although my difficult child has had symptoms of CD for a while she had just been diagnosed...

Oh my! Where do I begin? My name is Patty, and I'm here for support, suggestions, ideas, tips, and to be with others who have special kids like mine. My oldest daughter is 15 now. She is currently in voluntary PMIC for Residential Treatment. This is her 2nd PMIC placement, she was in PMIC...

I am new here. We are undergoing testing right now for ADHD for my 5-year-old. So far she has 'conduct disturbance' and I guess I'm a little in the dark on what that diagnosis is/means. She goes in tomorrow for an EEG and more testing. What's probably more interesting is that I have...

Since nearly all of us have a child who developed a mental illness prior to 18, I thought some of you may be willing to participate (I got this e-mail from our local support group). http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=WB5taoMttSkvgubFGfq5GA_3d_3d NAMI would like to hear from you about...

Welcome Seg to the Conduct Disorders Site. I found your post within the Angry Son post and set it up so that you can get input from members on your situation. Sometimes a post can get "lost in the shuffle"! Again, welcome to the crowd - your initial post is below! Beth This is my first...

Just discovered you guys here today, and am grateful to have a place to talk with folks that are in similar situations. Our difficult child son is 16, going on 17, and has been under treatment for ADHD, ODD, bi-polar since age 4. We lived in rural areas for the first 7 yrs. after the initial diagnosis, so most of...

I have a 12 year old son that has been struggling with mood disorders and depression. He has trouble staying in school without "melt downs". Last year I was called to the school often to try to calm him down. He is on medications and has now started out this school year in a similar way. He...

I'm writing an article for Parenting magazine about the toll that raising a child with a ADHD, autism or another conduct disorder can take on your marriage. Recent studies show that parents of children with ADHD are more likely to get divorced, so we conceived this story as a sympathetic view of...