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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 763948" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>Hi mg. </p><p></p><p>I'll put my two cents in. It's not that the psychiatric community doesn't believe that the constellation of symptoms and behaviors don't continue to exist. It's because at age 18 the patient assumes personal full legal responsibility and legal autonomy apart from parents and other caregivers and authority figures.</p><p></p><p>Which is to say that because there is the expectation that the person has the stature of full personhood, there is no longer the</p><p>issues of defiance (ie, no parent carries authority), and opposition to whom? It is here when the diagnosis of sociopathy might come to bear (defying and indifference to social and legal norms). Why? Because the person now legally bears full responsibility under the law for their conduct, and the child or juvenile did not. By early adulthood bipolar diagnosis and the thought disorders could manifest (up until recently bipolar disorder diagnosis was not used for a youngster. Now it is (for me, unwisely so.) </p><p></p><p>So really ODD is only a placeholder diagnosis used to describe behaviors until either the child is legally an adult, or the now young adult fully manifests what has been fueling the behaviors.</p><p></p><p>You are a hero, mg.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 763948, member: 18958"] Hi mg. I'll put my two cents in. It's not that the psychiatric community doesn't believe that the constellation of symptoms and behaviors don't continue to exist. It's because at age 18 the patient assumes personal full legal responsibility and legal autonomy apart from parents and other caregivers and authority figures. Which is to say that because there is the expectation that the person has the stature of full personhood, there is no longer the issues of defiance (ie, no parent carries authority), and opposition to whom? It is here when the diagnosis of sociopathy might come to bear (defying and indifference to social and legal norms). Why? Because the person now legally bears full responsibility under the law for their conduct, and the child or juvenile did not. By early adulthood bipolar diagnosis and the thought disorders could manifest (up until recently bipolar disorder diagnosis was not used for a youngster. Now it is (for me, unwisely so.) So really ODD is only a placeholder diagnosis used to describe behaviors until either the child is legally an adult, or the now young adult fully manifests what has been fueling the behaviors. You are a hero, mg. [/QUOTE]
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