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<blockquote data-quote="keista" data-source="post: 462882" data-attributes="member: 11965"><p>My son was never combative, but he's had his fair share of frustrations and tantrums. I can only guess that the combativeness may stem from frustration - whether from the autism or the ADHD. When son hit middle school, when faced with frustrations, he bypassed the tantrum phase and went strait to being depressed. He was put on 2mg Abilify and it has worked wonders. Since January, we noticed that his frustrations/tantrums/depressive symptoms started increasing again, and we just recently upped his dose to 5mg. Again he's much better and coping wonderfully.</p><p></p><p>For son, this medication doesn't just reduce the depression, but reduces the <strong>initial frustration level</strong> that leads to everything else. IOW when faced with a problem/challenge/annoyance he is better able to process it and think of ways to deal with it.</p><p></p><p>Don't know if that helps or is even an appropriate option for your difficult child, but that's my story.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="keista, post: 462882, member: 11965"] My son was never combative, but he's had his fair share of frustrations and tantrums. I can only guess that the combativeness may stem from frustration - whether from the autism or the ADHD. When son hit middle school, when faced with frustrations, he bypassed the tantrum phase and went strait to being depressed. He was put on 2mg Abilify and it has worked wonders. Since January, we noticed that his frustrations/tantrums/depressive symptoms started increasing again, and we just recently upped his dose to 5mg. Again he's much better and coping wonderfully. For son, this medication doesn't just reduce the depression, but reduces the [B]initial frustration level[/B] that leads to everything else. IOW when faced with a problem/challenge/annoyance he is better able to process it and think of ways to deal with it. Don't know if that helps or is even an appropriate option for your difficult child, but that's my story. [/QUOTE]
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