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<blockquote data-quote="mindinggaps" data-source="post: 764064" data-attributes="member: 29823"><p>[USER=30736]@dandelion[/USER] - Thank you for sharing your story. You have come to a good place - the people here are very kind and understanding and can relate to your situation with empathy and helpful thoughts. I wanted to chime in with a couple of comments, but from a slightly different angle. I was diagnosed with ODD as a child and while my issues have never been quite as extreme as your son, I have suffered from disruptive and maladjusted behaviors.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Your son almost certainly has a diagnosable psychiatric condition which can likely benefit from therapy and medication. Unfortunately, for people like your son, part of their condition typically involves distrust of doctors, refusal of treatment and failure to comply with medication. However, I do believe his situation could only improve with proper treatment. Realistically though, for his condition, multiple medications would be required and it would take some time to figure out. But there are treatments which can help reduce anger, impulsive behavior, urges to steal, etc. For context, I take a cocktail of medications without which I can become angry, aggressive, impulsive with urges of violence and chaos. However, with treatment, this is kept under control. My guess is that he just never disclosed the results of his psychiatric assessment to you.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>[USER=21066]@Crayola13[/USER] is exactly correct here. One thing you can do for your grandson is to try to ensure he gets early therapy and intervention as soon as possible to hopefully <em>prevent</em> issues from arising. This of course is very hard to do given that you are not in control. But it is a way to help reduce the likelihood of long term problems. Again, for context, my intervention began at age 5 with therapy and medications. I credit the fact that I am a functional adult today with this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mindinggaps, post: 764064, member: 29823"] [USER=30736]@dandelion[/USER] - Thank you for sharing your story. You have come to a good place - the people here are very kind and understanding and can relate to your situation with empathy and helpful thoughts. I wanted to chime in with a couple of comments, but from a slightly different angle. I was diagnosed with ODD as a child and while my issues have never been quite as extreme as your son, I have suffered from disruptive and maladjusted behaviors. Your son almost certainly has a diagnosable psychiatric condition which can likely benefit from therapy and medication. Unfortunately, for people like your son, part of their condition typically involves distrust of doctors, refusal of treatment and failure to comply with medication. However, I do believe his situation could only improve with proper treatment. Realistically though, for his condition, multiple medications would be required and it would take some time to figure out. But there are treatments which can help reduce anger, impulsive behavior, urges to steal, etc. For context, I take a cocktail of medications without which I can become angry, aggressive, impulsive with urges of violence and chaos. However, with treatment, this is kept under control. My guess is that he just never disclosed the results of his psychiatric assessment to you. [USER=21066]@Crayola13[/USER] is exactly correct here. One thing you can do for your grandson is to try to ensure he gets early therapy and intervention as soon as possible to hopefully [I]prevent[/I] issues from arising. This of course is very hard to do given that you are not in control. But it is a way to help reduce the likelihood of long term problems. Again, for context, my intervention began at age 5 with therapy and medications. I credit the fact that I am a functional adult today with this. [/QUOTE]
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