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Does anyone ever wonder if the professionals REALLY know what is wrong with our kids?
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<blockquote data-quote="Methuselah" data-source="post: 530233" data-attributes="member: 12725"><p>Midwest, when difficult child 2 was in third grade, I took her to expert #N in a long line of experts. She gave her diagnosis as to why difficult child 2 steals without remorse for me to add to the long list of reasons given by other experts. I looked this woman in the eye and told her I don't care why she does it, just fix her. Rude, i know. The woman stared at me. I told her how tired I am of all the experts directly spewing their reasons she steals but not directly fixing the behavior. We got stupid reason after stupid reason...with difficult child 2 sitting their telling them everytime, "I stole it, because I wanted it." It killed my faith in behavioral medicine. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>One of the experts I took difficult child 2 to showed me a picture she drew for him: a dog with a smile on his face, a sun in the corner with a smile on its face, all done in bright colors. He told me she may have bipolar. I stared at him. I said you look at this happy, normal picture and get that? He stared back. Time Magazine had featured in its cover that week or the week before bipolar in children. I told him I read that article, too. I was so ticked! It was like he didn't know where to put her, so he shoved her in the new category. Ugh. </p><p></p><p>Dr. George Simon has an article about how the simplest diagnosis is usually the best.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Methuselah, post: 530233, member: 12725"] Midwest, when difficult child 2 was in third grade, I took her to expert #N in a long line of experts. She gave her diagnosis as to why difficult child 2 steals without remorse for me to add to the long list of reasons given by other experts. I looked this woman in the eye and told her I don't care why she does it, just fix her. Rude, i know. The woman stared at me. I told her how tired I am of all the experts directly spewing their reasons she steals but not directly fixing the behavior. We got stupid reason after stupid reason...with difficult child 2 sitting their telling them everytime, "I stole it, because I wanted it." It killed my faith in behavioral medicine. One of the experts I took difficult child 2 to showed me a picture she drew for him: a dog with a smile on his face, a sun in the corner with a smile on its face, all done in bright colors. He told me she may have bipolar. I stared at him. I said you look at this happy, normal picture and get that? He stared back. Time Magazine had featured in its cover that week or the week before bipolar in children. I told him I read that article, too. I was so ticked! It was like he didn't know where to put her, so he shoved her in the new category. Ugh. Dr. George Simon has an article about how the simplest diagnosis is usually the best. [/QUOTE]
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