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<blockquote data-quote="Bunny" data-source="post: 548319"><p>Welcome to our corner of the internet. Like you, my son was diagnosed with ODD along with general anxiety disorder. While in the beginning I pushed for an ODD diagnosis, I have come to believe what the others here believe: that it's a diagnosis that they give to children when they don't know what else to call it. When we started medications our team (psychiatrist, therapist, husband, and me) all thought that if we could get his anxiety under control we would be able to manage the ODD symptoms. In our case, that didn't work well. difficult child did not react well to the SSRI class of medications and they made his far worse in terms of behavior than he was off of them. We went to risperdal (a mood stabilizer) and that worked well for him, but we were still dealing with the ODD behaviors. </p><p></p><p>What I think is that there are other things going on. If you can figure out what the undelying causes of the ODD behaviors are, you will go a very long way into dealing with them and making them better. For difficult child, it was feelings of being unloved and not wanted. Once we were able to address those issues and make him realize that he is indeed loved and wanted, the ODD behaviors started to lessen. They have not completely gone, and I don't think that they ever will be (unfortunately), but it's better, easier to deal with him.</p><p></p><p>Your son is young still. Another thing that I think (or maybe, hope) has helped our son is maturity. They are able to see things more clearly as they get older. At least my difficult child seems to.</p><p></p><p>Keep us posted as to how he is doing. You have found a great network of support here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bunny, post: 548319"] Welcome to our corner of the internet. Like you, my son was diagnosed with ODD along with general anxiety disorder. While in the beginning I pushed for an ODD diagnosis, I have come to believe what the others here believe: that it's a diagnosis that they give to children when they don't know what else to call it. When we started medications our team (psychiatrist, therapist, husband, and me) all thought that if we could get his anxiety under control we would be able to manage the ODD symptoms. In our case, that didn't work well. difficult child did not react well to the SSRI class of medications and they made his far worse in terms of behavior than he was off of them. We went to risperdal (a mood stabilizer) and that worked well for him, but we were still dealing with the ODD behaviors. What I think is that there are other things going on. If you can figure out what the undelying causes of the ODD behaviors are, you will go a very long way into dealing with them and making them better. For difficult child, it was feelings of being unloved and not wanted. Once we were able to address those issues and make him realize that he is indeed loved and wanted, the ODD behaviors started to lessen. They have not completely gone, and I don't think that they ever will be (unfortunately), but it's better, easier to deal with him. Your son is young still. Another thing that I think (or maybe, hope) has helped our son is maturity. They are able to see things more clearly as they get older. At least my difficult child seems to. Keep us posted as to how he is doing. You have found a great network of support here. [/QUOTE]
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