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<blockquote data-quote="TerryJ2" data-source="post: 431590" data-attributes="member: 3419"><p>Hi Arlea, welcome</p><p> </p><p>go to the top of the page here and click on "My settings" and "Profile" and follow the directions. In one of them, the prompts will be on the left hand side. You can preview your input and changes to see what it looks like. It took me a few tries!</p><p> </p><p>Your son sounds like a handful. I am glad you are having him evaluated. I am guessing that one of the dxes will be impulsivity or ADD. Like so many kids, he just does things with-o thinking. "I think, therefore I do." Know what I mean??</p><p> </p><p>You'll probably end up taking him to a talk therapist once a wk or so ... for a long time. He will need to express his curiosity, anger and frustration in acceptable ways.</p><p> </p><p>Since there is some mental illness in your family, it is possible that there could be a genetic component. (by the way, one of the highlights of borderline personality is risk taking, fwiw. Don't know if your sister has done anything off the wall except for lying.)</p><p> </p><p>In regard to lying, sometimes our kids do it because they can't think through the consequences and whether the rewards outweigh the risks. They just blurt out the most convenient thing that comes into their heads. They don't want to be punished, so they work around it. Or at least, think they do. So hard as it is, I would cut back on the yelling, and when your son tells the truth, no matter how hard it is, at least once or twice a wk, say, "All right. I am upset with-you but will not punish you this time because you told the truth."</p><p> (It nearly killed me the first time I had to do that but it really works!)</p><p> </p><p>When he gets into stuff in the middle of the night, is he in sort of a manic phase, where he doesn't sleep much? Is it hard to get him up in the a.m.?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TerryJ2, post: 431590, member: 3419"] Hi Arlea, welcome go to the top of the page here and click on "My settings" and "Profile" and follow the directions. In one of them, the prompts will be on the left hand side. You can preview your input and changes to see what it looks like. It took me a few tries! Your son sounds like a handful. I am glad you are having him evaluated. I am guessing that one of the dxes will be impulsivity or ADD. Like so many kids, he just does things with-o thinking. "I think, therefore I do." Know what I mean?? You'll probably end up taking him to a talk therapist once a wk or so ... for a long time. He will need to express his curiosity, anger and frustration in acceptable ways. Since there is some mental illness in your family, it is possible that there could be a genetic component. (by the way, one of the highlights of borderline personality is risk taking, fwiw. Don't know if your sister has done anything off the wall except for lying.) In regard to lying, sometimes our kids do it because they can't think through the consequences and whether the rewards outweigh the risks. They just blurt out the most convenient thing that comes into their heads. They don't want to be punished, so they work around it. Or at least, think they do. So hard as it is, I would cut back on the yelling, and when your son tells the truth, no matter how hard it is, at least once or twice a wk, say, "All right. I am upset with-you but will not punish you this time because you told the truth." (It nearly killed me the first time I had to do that but it really works!) When he gets into stuff in the middle of the night, is he in sort of a manic phase, where he doesn't sleep much? Is it hard to get him up in the a.m.? [/QUOTE]
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