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DD1 is really scaring me I need insights PLEASE
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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 429621" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>It is hard to send your child to a hospital, esp a psychiatric one where you cannot be with the child all day. Surprisingly to us moms, our kids usually do quite well there - even if they cry and scream and beg us not to leave them. Many kids actually prefer the structure of the psychiatric hospital, odd as that sounds. I would definitely call and ask how the different age groups are handled.</p><p></p><p>The suddenness of her episodes are what made me think of seizures. I would definitely want to have them ruled out. </p><p></p><p>If you do not have a copy of The Bipolar Child, it is a resource that you NEED, in my opinion. Parts are very technical, but not all of it. It has a whole lot of excellent info that can help the whole family. I found it invaluable because it helped me rule out bipolar for my child. Many tdocs, psychiatrists, teachers and others wanted to give him a bipolar diagnosis and it jsut does NOT fit him. When I had the book and would go through the list of symptoms with them, they were all able to see this with-o me pointing out specific things for each of the diagnostic criteria. I just asked if that seemed to fit him for each one. A couple of psychiatrists tried to insist, but they did NOT want to follow the protocol for medications so they stopped bringing it up. This was after we were sure he did not have that disorder. they each wanted to create their own special medication regime to treat bipolar and I found out later that the psychiatrists who did this were all writing papers on how to treat bipolar in kids and wanted to be able to say that they had a practice that specialized in kids with bipolar. But they wanted to achieve this by giving every child that diagnosis, whic is NOT the way to do it with MY kids.</p><p></p><p>I do think that having your daughter evaluated for autistic spectrum disorders is a good thing. Girls are esp hard to diagnosis because they do NOT show the disorders in the "typical" ways. Girls are more aware of social behavior and they are often inclined to mimic what others are doing even if they don't know why. Sensory issues are also something to have evaluated - treatment for this can be super helpful in helping a child learn to handle anxiety and life in general.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 429621, member: 1233"] It is hard to send your child to a hospital, esp a psychiatric one where you cannot be with the child all day. Surprisingly to us moms, our kids usually do quite well there - even if they cry and scream and beg us not to leave them. Many kids actually prefer the structure of the psychiatric hospital, odd as that sounds. I would definitely call and ask how the different age groups are handled. The suddenness of her episodes are what made me think of seizures. I would definitely want to have them ruled out. If you do not have a copy of The Bipolar Child, it is a resource that you NEED, in my opinion. Parts are very technical, but not all of it. It has a whole lot of excellent info that can help the whole family. I found it invaluable because it helped me rule out bipolar for my child. Many tdocs, psychiatrists, teachers and others wanted to give him a bipolar diagnosis and it jsut does NOT fit him. When I had the book and would go through the list of symptoms with them, they were all able to see this with-o me pointing out specific things for each of the diagnostic criteria. I just asked if that seemed to fit him for each one. A couple of psychiatrists tried to insist, but they did NOT want to follow the protocol for medications so they stopped bringing it up. This was after we were sure he did not have that disorder. they each wanted to create their own special medication regime to treat bipolar and I found out later that the psychiatrists who did this were all writing papers on how to treat bipolar in kids and wanted to be able to say that they had a practice that specialized in kids with bipolar. But they wanted to achieve this by giving every child that diagnosis, whic is NOT the way to do it with MY kids. I do think that having your daughter evaluated for autistic spectrum disorders is a good thing. Girls are esp hard to diagnosis because they do NOT show the disorders in the "typical" ways. Girls are more aware of social behavior and they are often inclined to mimic what others are doing even if they don't know why. Sensory issues are also something to have evaluated - treatment for this can be super helpful in helping a child learn to handle anxiety and life in general. [/QUOTE]
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