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Adopted teen with Attachment disorder?
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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 448063" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Depression in males - esp. young males - often masquerades as anger, violence, attitude, etc. Even mental health professionals often get caught up in the behavior-based approach and miss the depression.</p><p></p><p>It doesn't sound like these problems existed when you adopted him - so, not likely to be Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) per se.</p><p>Detachment is or can be part of depression - part "cause", part "effect" - and likewise, self-harm.</p><p></p><p>Not that I'm any specialist, or anything... but sometimes it helps to look at the situation through a "different lens" - a "what if..." lens - and see if it changes how the situation looks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 448063, member: 11791"] Depression in males - esp. young males - often masquerades as anger, violence, attitude, etc. Even mental health professionals often get caught up in the behavior-based approach and miss the depression. It doesn't sound like these problems existed when you adopted him - so, not likely to be Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) per se. Detachment is or can be part of depression - part "cause", part "effect" - and likewise, self-harm. Not that I'm any specialist, or anything... but sometimes it helps to look at the situation through a "different lens" - a "what if..." lens - and see if it changes how the situation looks. [/QUOTE]
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