families of bipolar

We have a 10 year old who we have been told has ADHD, ADD, ODD, and Bi-polar. I realize there is a lot of helpful information here, but I think truly what I want to do is throw my story out there, more so to rant and just get it off my chest. We are yet to try any dietary changes, we do keep...

Hello all! First and foremost I want to thank you all for leading me to The Explosive Child. At the risk of sounding like a cheesy commercial, I want to say that it has changed our lives. Literally. Since reading the book, calm has been restored to this house. Seb has not had an explosions...

At what age is it appropriate to stop badgering your difficult child to do his homework and let natural consequences kick in? Knight has had an assignment that consisted of reading a historical book, then gathering items representative of what was discussed in the book, putting them in a bag, and giving...

Does anyone here know if there are studies or data that examine the effects blood sugar levels can have on the effectiveness of psychiatric medications? difficult child 2 has had breakthrough symptoms the past week or so, and he's telling me he's usually really hungry when this happens. Happened again this afternoon...

Hi, I'm coming out of long-standing lurkdom. I have always read here vigilantly and now I would like to participate. I posted here several years ago before I went into lurkdom. I think I have learned the most here than at any message board. My older difficult child (15) is a handful. I homeschooled him...

Hello all. I hope everyone is doing well. I haven't been on in a few days as my life has been chaotic!!! My daughter is still driving us all crazy. She is completely out of control at this point. She hasn't been on her medications in quite some time and it shows. She is extremely irritable, we...

difficult child 1 was started on Lamictal a while back. It seemed to be helping. Then she developed a rash. So they stopped the lamictal. Has anyone else had experience with this? Beth

Hi Everybody! I just found you today and am happy to have found you. My difficult child is 14 and has High-Functioning Autism (HFA) (high-functioning autism). I can deal pretty well with all of it but since he hit age 12 he has decided the way to deal with the world is by brute force. With DEX not around anymore I have had to be...

Howdy!! I am so excited to find this message board. :applause: My name is Kandi. I am a mother to 3 amazing children. My oldest is 11 and he has a diagnosis of BiPolar (BP) and they are now looking into Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) or AS. My middle child is 10, he is typical. My baby is 8 and she is typical as well and my heart. I...

Hi Everyone. New here, it's my first post. I am the Mom of a 14 & 3/4 year old son, Tim. I knew Tim had been sneaking out, riding his bike about 5 miles one way to see a 'girl' sometime between 1.00 am - 5.00 am, usually on weekends. I nabbed him coming in the door on a couple of...

Hello again. I was here before and not to sound rude I was really hoping that I was one of the one's that found the right medication and all was right in my daughter's world! WRONG!! Nov 05 - Diagnosed with Bi-Polar, Was Almost hospitalized, stabalized on Zyprexa Nov 06 - Doesn't want...

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For three years my husband and I have been trying to get help for our son; he has been diagnosed passive aggressive, with antisocial trait (because of his age), and conduct disorder. He is unable to show empathy or sympathy. He has no emotions what so ever. :( He has been seeing a family...

Heres some history: My ex husband and I separated when my youngest was not quite 1. She was always a quiet baby, never cried and was overall great compared to my 3 toddlers. When I left my ex, he took my kids, hid them and we started going through a very messy divorce, I think screwing up my...

Im to the point that things are going too slow the several years to slow for a proper diagnose for my son. Son is now always saying he wants to kill us or cops or doctors if they get in the way to help him. He now added hes going to stab me in the neck and wants me dead he will kill me he promises...

So by biting himself ,hitting himself ,slamming the door on his arm, etc is this part of "bipolar" or what disorder?? Oh add what a great morning - started great hes laughing then dad mentioned 7-eleven to bribe him to get him and I had him under control I thought before that. Then son started...

I've been having serious behavior issues with my 7 y/o daughter that started around October. She's always been a little "different" than my other children with her behavior, always very immature, gets into trouble etc. But since around October the teacher has been sending home note after note...

I don't know what to think. I've read a ton about ODD, CD, Bi-Polar, etc. and my children's birth mother was bi-polar. If you look-up my previous posts, you'll see what went on with my children and see what is going on right now with my daughter. In the past couple of months alone, she has been...

My difficult child is a wonderfully softhearted child who seems to cycle about every 6 weeks. Normally his mean, behavior last for about two weeks then we are OK for a while. He can get violent when confronted but with age the violence has lessened. When he gets in his moods if I say white its black, if I...

My daughter (11 yrs) has had behavioral problems most of her life, and they have gotten only worse. Though she has had home issues through a bad divorce, I was wondering how many other children with Turner's Syndrome have the same sort of problems. Her latest evaluation. says that she don't have NLD...