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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 740339" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>I am sorry for the confusing hodge podge of diagnosis. Because psychiatry cant prove any diagnoses they are often wrong. Of course he has anxiety and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and together with speech issues that sounds like autusm to me, a layperson.</p><p></p><p> Some countries are very timid about diagnosing children with anything life changing. Even here I got the ADHD and ODD and bipolar dances until my son was 11, but we lived with him and we knew that was wrong. I am a psychiatric patient since age 23 and have had lots of diagnoses and I didn't really know the right one but I accept treatment for those I am sure about, since I am myself and I feel the consequences of depression and anxiety if I dont treat those problems.</p><p></p><p>The real challenge is to figure out how to help your sons behaviors in a field that is inexact and ever changing for this reason. My son and I both saw neurologists and neuro psychs of our choices but we dont get limited by the government. Its more a choice combined with how much $$$ you have for what insurance wont cover. There is always a catch.</p><p></p><p>I think down here, although psychiatry is still very inexact, they are more willing to label kids right and wrong, and try to work on things. But with all my years of being a psychiatric patient I have learned that I have to be my best advocate because I know what resonates and feels right for me. In my long life in psychiatry I have been diagnosed with unipolar depression, manic depression, bipolar, bipolar ll (most common), Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, PTSD and soft neurological signs and other neurological stuff.</p><p></p><p>They didn't know for sure but I was pretty easy. I got depressed. I had panic disorder. What was harder was the soft neurological stuff.</p><p></p><p>My son was complex, more like yours. But I know what I saw. Bipolar? Did not resonate. He was not moody and still isnt at 25. ODD? He wasnt defiant.</p><p></p><p>Sometimes I wonder how they come up with this stuff but they dont see our kids day in and day out. I wonder if they behave differently when they are hospitalized. My son never was. I was. I admitted myself when I was pregnant. I had a baby to raise now. Thats when I first got the mood disorder duagnosis which I knew was right, even if nobody agreed on what exact mood disorder I had </p><p></p><p>What I am trying to say is your son is complicated and did regress when young. With all you will be told, you will be confused. So I suggest maybe just doing what helps and not paying attention to so many labels. Do what works. My son was also diagnosed with ADHD first. That is often a first diagnosis in the U.S. But he went crazy on stimulants after a while! The sure diagnosis was eventually removed as a part of autism. </p><p></p><p>How do I know his autism diagnosis is right? It is actually high functioning autism.</p><p></p><p>I cant know for sure. Lots of tests but no blood test. No way to confirm.</p><p></p><p>But autism interventions worked tremendously well for him and he does have the signs. Really doesnt have much to do with a doctors diagnosis. His father and I suspected autism when we adopted him at age two but of course we are laypeople. Fortunately or unfortunately my son was born with crack in his system so in the U.S. you get interventions from infancy. Many were good for autism like speech, Occupational Therapist (OT) and social skills.</p><p></p><p>Use your own knowledge of your son. Doctors are not Gods, especially in the field of Psychiatry. Do the best you can. Anything you do, every single one of us will support. You have a very difficult child and he is hard to figure out. You are doing everything you can.</p><p></p><p>You are a hero. My babble really meant that you are smart... trust your intuition with a child you have lived with forever. We get it. </p><p></p><p>Love and light.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 740339, member: 1550"] I am sorry for the confusing hodge podge of diagnosis. Because psychiatry cant prove any diagnoses they are often wrong. Of course he has anxiety and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and together with speech issues that sounds like autusm to me, a layperson. Some countries are very timid about diagnosing children with anything life changing. Even here I got the ADHD and ODD and bipolar dances until my son was 11, but we lived with him and we knew that was wrong. I am a psychiatric patient since age 23 and have had lots of diagnoses and I didn't really know the right one but I accept treatment for those I am sure about, since I am myself and I feel the consequences of depression and anxiety if I dont treat those problems. The real challenge is to figure out how to help your sons behaviors in a field that is inexact and ever changing for this reason. My son and I both saw neurologists and neuro psychs of our choices but we dont get limited by the government. Its more a choice combined with how much $$$ you have for what insurance wont cover. There is always a catch. I think down here, although psychiatry is still very inexact, they are more willing to label kids right and wrong, and try to work on things. But with all my years of being a psychiatric patient I have learned that I have to be my best advocate because I know what resonates and feels right for me. In my long life in psychiatry I have been diagnosed with unipolar depression, manic depression, bipolar, bipolar ll (most common), Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, PTSD and soft neurological signs and other neurological stuff. They didn't know for sure but I was pretty easy. I got depressed. I had panic disorder. What was harder was the soft neurological stuff. My son was complex, more like yours. But I know what I saw. Bipolar? Did not resonate. He was not moody and still isnt at 25. ODD? He wasnt defiant. Sometimes I wonder how they come up with this stuff but they dont see our kids day in and day out. I wonder if they behave differently when they are hospitalized. My son never was. I was. I admitted myself when I was pregnant. I had a baby to raise now. Thats when I first got the mood disorder duagnosis which I knew was right, even if nobody agreed on what exact mood disorder I had What I am trying to say is your son is complicated and did regress when young. With all you will be told, you will be confused. So I suggest maybe just doing what helps and not paying attention to so many labels. Do what works. My son was also diagnosed with ADHD first. That is often a first diagnosis in the U.S. But he went crazy on stimulants after a while! The sure diagnosis was eventually removed as a part of autism. How do I know his autism diagnosis is right? It is actually high functioning autism. I cant know for sure. Lots of tests but no blood test. No way to confirm. But autism interventions worked tremendously well for him and he does have the signs. Really doesnt have much to do with a doctors diagnosis. His father and I suspected autism when we adopted him at age two but of course we are laypeople. Fortunately or unfortunately my son was born with crack in his system so in the U.S. you get interventions from infancy. Many were good for autism like speech, Occupational Therapist (OT) and social skills. Use your own knowledge of your son. Doctors are not Gods, especially in the field of Psychiatry. Do the best you can. Anything you do, every single one of us will support. You have a very difficult child and he is hard to figure out. You are doing everything you can. You are a hero. My babble really meant that you are smart... trust your intuition with a child you have lived with forever. We get it. Love and light. [/QUOTE]
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