oppositional defiant disorder

Hi. My name is Pam and I am the stay at home mom to two boys, difficult child who is 11, and easy child who is 6. husband and I have been dealing with difficult child's problem behavior at home for what seems like forever. He's fantastic at school. Straight A student. All of our problems seem to be in the home, but from what...

Good Morning All-- Forgive me for venting here... Seemed like difficult child had been making good progress...the therapist felt that she improved so much on the Celexa that there was really no more need for weekly sessions (and just as well since Medicaid is dropping coverage of weekly counseling...

my difficult child will turn 10 friday. she was diagnosed by a child neuroligist as having add & odd. she has been on daytrana 20 mg since she was 7. things had been working well. but lately she has been very oppositional since april. i have started to question the diagnosis. my thoughts have been...

I knew I was in for one of those nights the minute difficult child got home from school yesterday. He came in and was all in a lather about the fact that he had alot of homework. I asked him what he had and was told, "It's none of your business. You don't have to tell me everything and I don't have to...

difficult child 1 used to take Lexapro for his Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD). It helped with his needle phobia TREMENDOUSLY. But... We had lots of problems with him when stimulants wore off in terms of his over-the-top oppositionality, defiance, mouth, tantrums, yada, yada, yada. Door slamming, slashing a screen, running off...

Now, we've established that Zyprexa at bedtime doesn't work for kiddo, right? Right. Hyper, leg pains, etc. She's also eating like a lumberjack, even when she's full she's still hungry. Called doctor's office. They want to cut back the Zyprexa to the previous 5mg taken at bedtime and add Abilify in...

I found your first post buried in a very old thread and decided to post it in it's very own thread so you get a proper welcome. :) Here it is: hi my name is michael and im a father of 6 year old,i have never done this before (threads) but last night i realized i cant do thins anymore. he has...

Hi, I was actually here briefly 2 years ago when my difficult child, Tuna, was diagnosis with ODD. Weeeeee're baaaack! )-: Now it's a diagnosis of Anxiety Disorder not otherwise specified & mood disorder. She started on Abilify 2mg & Remeron 15mg and we had a different kid overnight. It was great, we thought all our problems were...

psychiatrist added the generic of Cylexa. After 4 days, difficult child will be taking 20 mg/day of it. Does anyone have experience with this? He also raised difficult child's low dose of depakote er to 750 mg/day and kept the lithobid at 1200 mg/day. We will be leaving soon to go sit at the dr's office to get difficult child checked...

So, difficult child had an appointment with the therapist tonight. This is the first one since I sent him the e-mail last week about how angry I was when I felt that difficult child manipulated the session so that he would not have to talk about his behavior at home. He asked difficult child about how he behaves towards me at...

difficult child has been unbearable lately. We seem to go in cycles of managable to horrible. Some weeks good, some awful. This past week we are in crisis again. Every little thing sets him off in a rage of anger, hate and aggression. I don't understand why. He says no one in this family loves him, we treat...

The psychiatrist suggested I reduce difficult child 1's Lexapro in an effort to curb his over-the-top ODD-type behaviors when the stimulant wears off. For example, arguments would escalate to the point where he would either run away, break something, slam doors, throw things, or he would lie, seek out porn, steal things...

i'm at a loss yet again. i think we have the koi'iest psychiatrist of all time (he was my last resort, but the first i could get in with, that should tell you something) he is the Rx'r of the medication, so i cant just drop him without a plan. on one hand, i really dont want to be doctor/medication/diagnosis "shopping"...

Hello All-- I found this forum a short while ago and I have found "myself" in many of the postings here. It seems like so many of us are going through similar difficulties. Anger, self-control issues, oppositional behaviors, violence, outburts, tantrums...my family and I have been going...

I felt like a little girl getting a scolding. She was upset that I didn't call. SRL, you were right, I should have. She said that the kind of anxiey difficult child was experiencing, especially at night was not to be tolerated. I guess what happens is that you get sooo used to challenging and odd...

My step son is 'sexually reactve' and is constantly toughing other kids or convncing them or tricking them into touching him. He is currently in therapy, and it seems to be doing absolutely not good! The problem isnt jsut him. He is perping on his little brother and now his brother is dong it as...

Hello, I just joined the group. I have a 13 year old who is in a residential care facility for severe depression and suicidal ideation. While there he has been diagnosed with elements of conduct disorder. When I read the literature it's sounds like he has many elements of conduct disorder...

I am a mother of 2 beautiful boys, Peyton 10 and Tyler 3. Peyton was diagnosed at 5 with the ADHD. Now 10, he is violent, aggressive, rude, and just an all around BRAT! I know I shouldn’t say that about my own child but I don’t know what to do anymore....I NEED HELP!!! I have been doing research...

Hi. I'm new here and am hoping maybe someone can give me some new direction to go in. I'll give a little background on our family. My husband (husband) and I have been married for 10 years. We have two children-darling daughter (daughter) who is almost 7 and in first grade, and darling son (DS) who is...

d started his summer routine this week. T and TH he has tutoring. MWF he has daycamp activities and at night, Taekwando. For the most part, it's been a good (and full) week. He did have a meltdown last night after the class. He just cried out of frustration. It's a pretty strict class...