TiredSoul
Warrior Mom since 2007
Today is day 15 on 1 mg Intuniv. Tomorrow we are supposed to go to 2 mg. Tonight difficult child is so completely out of control. He is belligerent, combative, quarrelsome, antagonistic, contentious!!! He is annoying everyone! He is in all of our faces. He is acting like a crazed maniac. Looking back these past 15 days, he has been in a fight at school which resulted in him being sent home, he has been in a fight with a neighborhood kid (who he kind of always butts heads with), and today after school he was beating up his good friend. He lies so much I don't know what I can believe. Today's incident there happened to be another kid witness and he and the kid my son was beating up both told me the same story. My son tells me he didn't do that and that he was the one getting beat up.
It was supposed to be a good day. My husband was able to get off work early so we could go to difficult child's school for an assembly. difficult child was being presented an award for doing good work in class. He got to go home early. I guess that threw off the routine or something.
One thing that happens that sets my son off with his friends, is when he is playing with one of them and another comes along and wants to take that friend away. It happens all the time. You would think they are girls! I think I have figured out that whenever this happens he gets aggressive and starts in on the friend he doesn't want to leave. Does he really think beating his friend up is going to make him want to stay? Come on. It used to be that he would just corner the friend if they wanted to leave and he would tell them they can't leave. Majorly trying to control them. So here's what I think.... when he doesn't feel like he is in control or can control things, he flips out. First by trying harder to control them, then by getting aggressive.
So... do we stop the intuniv? It was not this bad before. I thought things were getting better. He has actually slept in his own bed this entire time since we started this new medication - I think. He has been in my bed for forever. He was having bad dreams and waking up in the middle of the night and early in the morning since the intuniv - but I thought that was getting better. He hasn't been waking up in the middle of the night and he has been sleep a little bit longer. He has been getting up on his own and quietly watching tv, rather than slamming doors open and demanding I get up and wait on him.
Geeez, I don't know what to do. When he is like this - I want to !@#$%^ Arrgghh I don't know. It makes me CRAZY!
I think I am ready for bed, but had to have my therapy (this board) first.
Thanks for listening.
-Jules
It was supposed to be a good day. My husband was able to get off work early so we could go to difficult child's school for an assembly. difficult child was being presented an award for doing good work in class. He got to go home early. I guess that threw off the routine or something.
One thing that happens that sets my son off with his friends, is when he is playing with one of them and another comes along and wants to take that friend away. It happens all the time. You would think they are girls! I think I have figured out that whenever this happens he gets aggressive and starts in on the friend he doesn't want to leave. Does he really think beating his friend up is going to make him want to stay? Come on. It used to be that he would just corner the friend if they wanted to leave and he would tell them they can't leave. Majorly trying to control them. So here's what I think.... when he doesn't feel like he is in control or can control things, he flips out. First by trying harder to control them, then by getting aggressive.
So... do we stop the intuniv? It was not this bad before. I thought things were getting better. He has actually slept in his own bed this entire time since we started this new medication - I think. He has been in my bed for forever. He was having bad dreams and waking up in the middle of the night and early in the morning since the intuniv - but I thought that was getting better. He hasn't been waking up in the middle of the night and he has been sleep a little bit longer. He has been getting up on his own and quietly watching tv, rather than slamming doors open and demanding I get up and wait on him.
Geeez, I don't know what to do. When he is like this - I want to !@#$%^ Arrgghh I don't know. It makes me CRAZY!
I think I am ready for bed, but had to have my therapy (this board) first.
Thanks for listening.
-Jules
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