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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 310107" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Hi and welcome! Most of us here feel that ODD is a pretty useless diagnosis that doesn't stand alone. It is the result of a bigger diagnosis, but you do have a few other ones.</p><p></p><p>I think a good first step would be to get another psychiatrist's opinion. Looks like this one is more interested in ADHD than BiPolar (BP) and in my opinion that's backwards. Stimulants can make mood disordered kids even worse, and they are abused by teens as well (my daughter once was addicted to ADHD medications...they crush 'em in pillcrushers and snort them...alone and with other drugs). Not saying she'd do that, but do think it's somewhat inappropriate to put her on stims while she's still unstable with the bipolar. Where's the mood stabilizer? Geodon is an atypical antipsychotic and although I'm not an expert, I have heard that it's not that great of one either. It's not used that often. Also, noticed your younger child is an Aspie. It could be that the older one is too. Often Aspegers is mistaken for ODD/ADHD/bipolar/ABCDEFGHIJ etc. It can look very different in two kids.</p><p></p><p>Has she always been this way?</p><p></p><p>Any other behaviors that have you confused/nervous/crazy?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 310107, member: 1550"] Hi and welcome! Most of us here feel that ODD is a pretty useless diagnosis that doesn't stand alone. It is the result of a bigger diagnosis, but you do have a few other ones. I think a good first step would be to get another psychiatrist's opinion. Looks like this one is more interested in ADHD than BiPolar (BP) and in my opinion that's backwards. Stimulants can make mood disordered kids even worse, and they are abused by teens as well (my daughter once was addicted to ADHD medications...they crush 'em in pillcrushers and snort them...alone and with other drugs). Not saying she'd do that, but do think it's somewhat inappropriate to put her on stims while she's still unstable with the bipolar. Where's the mood stabilizer? Geodon is an atypical antipsychotic and although I'm not an expert, I have heard that it's not that great of one either. It's not used that often. Also, noticed your younger child is an Aspie. It could be that the older one is too. Often Aspegers is mistaken for ODD/ADHD/bipolar/ABCDEFGHIJ etc. It can look very different in two kids. Has she always been this way? Any other behaviors that have you confused/nervous/crazy? [/QUOTE]
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