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<blockquote data-quote="Second Time Around" data-source="post: 660182" data-attributes="member: 18739"><p>I can relate to your situation, although we're much younger than you are. It's quite possible that your grandson has been misdiagnosed. Our Difficult Child was misdiagnosed with ADHD and anxiety when he was six and put on stimulants. He was constantly irritable and violent to the point that he had to be hospitalized and placed in a residential treatment facility when he was 8. He was there for a year, discharged after making no progress, home for a year and back to RT for another year when he was 10. At that point, the psychiatrist at the new RT facility decided that he might have bipolar disorder. He was taken off the stims and put on a combination of Lithium, Trileptal and Risperidone. He's much, much better now and actually generally pleasant to be around. I would suggest that you talk to the psychiatrist about mood regulating medications. If that's what's going on, it would make a huge difference. Most of these tend to cause weight gain. Our Difficult Child was extremely thin and now he's rather heavy. If you can get respite care so you can recuperate, that will help a lot, too. If he's on a Medicaid mental health waiver, they have a list of trained caregivers and Medicaid will pay for a certain number of hours per month.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Second Time Around, post: 660182, member: 18739"] I can relate to your situation, although we're much younger than you are. It's quite possible that your grandson has been misdiagnosed. Our Difficult Child was misdiagnosed with ADHD and anxiety when he was six and put on stimulants. He was constantly irritable and violent to the point that he had to be hospitalized and placed in a residential treatment facility when he was 8. He was there for a year, discharged after making no progress, home for a year and back to RT for another year when he was 10. At that point, the psychiatrist at the new RT facility decided that he might have bipolar disorder. He was taken off the stims and put on a combination of Lithium, Trileptal and Risperidone. He's much, much better now and actually generally pleasant to be around. I would suggest that you talk to the psychiatrist about mood regulating medications. If that's what's going on, it would make a huge difference. Most of these tend to cause weight gain. Our Difficult Child was extremely thin and now he's rather heavy. If you can get respite care so you can recuperate, that will help a lot, too. If he's on a Medicaid mental health waiver, they have a list of trained caregivers and Medicaid will pay for a certain number of hours per month. [/QUOTE]
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