Otto von Bismark
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Have you put an alarm on his door so if he opens it it goes off? This helps us sleep.
This forum is full of mind readers. My husband just looked those up. What do you tell the child who has the alarm on his door?
Have you put an alarm on his door so if he opens it it goes off? This helps us sleep.
Our adopted son (who no longer has contact with us) killed two of our animals that we know of and possibly more. And he acted very loving around the animals when we were there...it was when we weren't...
There are always two side to being a "terrible pill guy" It is very possible that all his patients need tremendous pill cocktails simply because he gets all the worst most complicated patients.They recognized the psychiatrist we will be going to and recall him as being a terrible pill guy,and a lot of kids who go to him are on a huge cocktail of drugs. But there was a cancellation and we can be seen tomorrow, instead of at the end of October, and this is the guy who said he WOULD NOT have put him on Zoloft. So I think we will take the appointment and help get him off the Zoloft for tomorrow.
I have alarms on all of the kids doors. This way if I don't hear difficult child 1's door (he is downstairs and everyone else is upstairs) I'll hear the other doors opening. I tell difficult child 1 the truth. I don't lecture him about it, but at 11 years old with the cognitive abilities of an 11 year old he can take it not watered down.
There are always two side to being a "terrible pill guy" It is very possible that all his patients need tremendous pill cocktails simply because he gets all the worst most complicated patients.
Keista: There are always two side to being a "terrible pill guy" It is very possible that all his patients need tremendous pill cocktails simply because he gets all the worst most complicated patients.
With your son I might say something like 'I'm putting this on your door because you have said you want to hurt yourself and most of the time these thoughts come to you is at night when everyone is asleep. I love you and want you to be safe. You can not wander the house at night. I can't even let you wander the house even once (in case he hasn't before and protests that he won't).'
Ditto. You have to know what the "practical" history is. Finding success with hard-to-treat kids by fine-tuning a number of different medications? That's different than just "thowing the medicine box at the kid". There's some older logic out there that doesn't believe kids could possibly need anything over trace dosages of medications... Not that I believe kids in general need major doses of medications... but I do know, first-hand, that medications is exactly like so many other areas of parenting... you can't go by the book - you MUST go by the baby. medications... is a fine line between benefits and side-effects, and the final judge is the body of the person taking the medications.
Hopefully, you've gotten the kind who are really up do date, know the need to find that "sweet spot" and are prepared to put the effort in to work with you.
Good luck!
Now, this could be completely normal. He could be so very good at diagnoses that he can do it in his sleep. I don't know how this type of thing works. Is it normal? Can we judge anything about how he will be with my son by how he was with my ADD teen?
Yes you should. It is very helpful to the psychiatrist etc. - AND to yourself for finding patterns.Does anyone keep journal of behaviors, conversations, drug side effects, etc? I am thinking I should start doing this.
I'm not as familiar with Strattera. We're a stims family...Her rationale for stimulant is that she doesn't have to take it outside of school or on days off, since she doesn't have behavioral problems, just attention. She thinks she can just eat more on days she doesn't take it, but I am not sure it works like that. She says she has zero appetite on Strattera, all the time.