conduct disorder in children

My son who is 10 and has been hospitalized twice in the last 6 months for mental health reasons. The Dr.s diagnosed his with ADHD, ODD, SI. He is physically violent when he gets angry. He sometimes doesn't even remember going into these "rages" that sometimes will go on for hours. After his...

Hi all, I'm Jim, our son is 17, we just finally figured out, he has odd/cd, can someone please start us out in the right direction, this has been going on since birth, he takes 50mg of zoloft daily for his anxiety disorder, but I do not want him on a psychotropic medication any and all...

Reading some of the posts here at the very least sure makes life with a challenging child feel less lonely. Sometimes I watch Dr. Phil and think, MR.....you DONT have a clue. I am a single mom to a great kid who has multiple challenges and the most difficult of them is his verbal and physical...

So after an exhausting month long rage we managed to get an appointment with the specialist to have our almost 5 yr old tested for add/adhd/odd/etc. An emergancy appointment none the less. His extreme rage towards people and animals we couldn't wait on the 4 months waiting list.We going knowing...

I have a 5 year old son who has been having behavior problems for about 2 years now. I have consulted my pediatrician about ADHD with no response. Today we went for a second opinion and this doctor seemed quite concerned and referred us to a psychiatrist. I came home and immediately started...

Hello, My name is Crystal and am in a LTR with a great guy. We both have two kids, so four total. His youngest (11yo) has made it where neither of us want to go home at the end of the day. We have recently found out that he has stolen my oldest daughters scooter from the garage and taking it to...

Hi everyone Myself and my wife have a 7 year old daughter who we believe has Conduct Disorder and/or ADHD and/or ODD. Most days she will be defiant no matter what she is asked to told to do. She will deliberately sometimes do something that she has been told not to do. She doesn't respond to...

Hi, I am new to this forum but am at a loss with my 16 almost 17 year old son. He has been caught stealing from cars and has has divergence program including substance abuse and anger management counselling. His diagnosis is ADHD and CD. He refuses treatment or counselling. My question for...

My son is 8 yrs old and everyday is a battle. I don't have anyone I can talk to about the things that happen so I thought I would try this board. Hoping that being you all are going through it too you would understand. Its so hard we spent 5yrs of fertility treatments to get my son and the day I...

Another year. More problems. So far we have had seven school days and difficult child has already missed two Same story as always. She feels nauseous and throws up in the morning, and has stomach pain. She usually feels better later in the day. She still insists she is not well enough to go to school...

Picked J up from the play centre today and there was a worker I hadn't seen there before. She opened the door to me and immediately said "Very difficult!" I'm sorry? "J was very difficult today! Running around everywhere and wouldn't listen, blaming everyone else! Very difficult!" All in...

I have a 13 (almost 14) year old son, who has left me completely exhausted. My son was in foster care from ages 4 1/2 to age 8. He was born to a 15 year old mother, and lived with her for the first several years of his life. She gave birth to another child at age 19 and that child tested...

My 11 year old was doing so good. Yesterday she attacked me and left about 20 bruises and welts all over my chest. She had been doing good and earned some money for chores and not cursing. Sunday was the day that she was able to spend her earnings. She wanted to go to the Game place to pick...

Hi guys I mostly lurk but I had to come out of hiding to post this becuase I am just really stressed and confused. My son is 7 ( just turned ) Diagnosed ODD, CD and anxiety. Fits all criteria. Neurologist and psychiatric. agree on diagnosis. He has tried Intuniv with drastic change but had to go off due to...

It has been a while since I have even felt like logging on here. I have been so depressed; I don’t even want to do anything. Even reading wasn’t interesting me. I have depression; quite honestly I think my 14 yo difficult child has it too. I take my medications; however, she refuses to take hers. When I started...

Son is angry because HE wouldn't get out of bed and wouldnt get ready for school ( his sister finally did and went I posted under Californiablondes post wasnt going to make a new one Im sorry but Im shakin up so I made a new one). So he poured Windex and body washes in the sink, broke his door...

I really hope we are in the right direction now with the medications and Neurologist.. still seeking Therapy for us all. Of course daughter refuses to go or get tested. I know shes under 18 and I can drag her kicking and screaming in. Their father all sudden is paying full insurance for them and still...

Hello all! My daughter was diagnosed ADHD in August. Once on Metadate CD, she started having increasing agression. We stopped the medications, but she continued the defiance/agression. Psychiatrist started her on Adderall XR. She has been on for about 6 weeks now. The medications work OK to help...

My son just turned 16 and is out of control. Behavior over the last 2 years include stealing money from my wallet, sneaking out of the house and driving my car (with no liscense), staying out all night, hanging out with bad kids (like himself), likely selling pot and smoking it, pretty much...

The Special Education teacher is very young and has no kids and by the end of the meeting I wanted to choke her and I knew she wanted to choke me too...lol. To name just a few things that happened, the Psychologist, who I really liked, said that my daughter has SEVERE ADD. He said she couldn't do the...