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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 85071" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>From what many of us here have seen, ODD tends to be part of a diagnosis, RARELY the entire problem. The only docs of any kind who tried to give us this label alone also told us that if we used a belt on areas that clothing would cover the ODD would vanish.</p><p></p><p>Well, for my son, as for many others, we could have beaten him bloody on an hourly basis with-o changing his behavior. </p><p></p><p>We had to find out what was causing the problems. The underlying behavior. It took lots of testing, therapy and even various trials on various medications to get to something workable for my son.</p><p></p><p>By workable I mean he probably isn't on a pathway to jail, he isn't beating someone up routinely, he isn't trying to kill himself, and he is making friends and coping in school (though if I had ever brought home grades like that I would not have left the house for weeks!)</p><p></p><p>Anyway, I encourage you to find a diff psychologist to work with you and a psychiatrist and other docs. No one doctor should be all or nothing. An honest doctor will help you work with other docs. You wouldn't want a gynecologist to take out your tonsils, would you??? All the docs have to work together, at least a bit.</p><p></p><p>Hugs,</p><p></p><p>Susie</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 85071, member: 1233"] From what many of us here have seen, ODD tends to be part of a diagnosis, RARELY the entire problem. The only docs of any kind who tried to give us this label alone also told us that if we used a belt on areas that clothing would cover the ODD would vanish. Well, for my son, as for many others, we could have beaten him bloody on an hourly basis with-o changing his behavior. We had to find out what was causing the problems. The underlying behavior. It took lots of testing, therapy and even various trials on various medications to get to something workable for my son. By workable I mean he probably isn't on a pathway to jail, he isn't beating someone up routinely, he isn't trying to kill himself, and he is making friends and coping in school (though if I had ever brought home grades like that I would not have left the house for weeks!) Anyway, I encourage you to find a diff psychologist to work with you and a psychiatrist and other docs. No one doctor should be all or nothing. An honest doctor will help you work with other docs. You wouldn't want a gynecologist to take out your tonsils, would you??? All the docs have to work together, at least a bit. Hugs, Susie [/QUOTE]
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