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difficult child just makes me sick!
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<blockquote data-quote="Suz" data-source="post: 315533" data-attributes="member: 29"><p>For children, three indications of severe mental illness are bedwetting, firesetting, and cruelty to animals. I think you need two out of three to be taken seriously by the docs. </p><p> </p><p>My Rob was a fire setter but not the other two, so I think that's why he was spared a more serious personality disorder diagnosis when he was younger. In those days he was also a pathological liar, among other things.</p><p> </p><p>It's my guess that your son has something more serious going on if he's able to control bedwetting some times and not others. There is certainly anger there, demonstrated by his lying and probably the wetting behavior, too.</p><p> </p><p>Here's my theory...not original to me but original to this thread. The only thing your difficult child can control is what goes in his mouth and what goes out his urinary/bowel tracts. Rob's sis used pooping in her pants as a means to show anger, control, etc. I suspect this is the BIG BOY VERSION of the same. </p><p> </p><p>Is there any way you can ignore (or at least not respond negatively?) this behavior? If you do, you take the power out of his action. It's utilizing the "Basket" approach to the nth degree. Perhaps if you don't react, the "appeal" of getting your goat will be gone and he will stop?</p><p> </p><p>There just doesn't seem to be any other possible explanation that I can see.</p><p> </p><p>Suz</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Suz, post: 315533, member: 29"] For children, three indications of severe mental illness are bedwetting, firesetting, and cruelty to animals. I think you need two out of three to be taken seriously by the docs. My Rob was a fire setter but not the other two, so I think that's why he was spared a more serious personality disorder diagnosis when he was younger. In those days he was also a pathological liar, among other things. It's my guess that your son has something more serious going on if he's able to control bedwetting some times and not others. There is certainly anger there, demonstrated by his lying and probably the wetting behavior, too. Here's my theory...not original to me but original to this thread. The only thing your difficult child can control is what goes in his mouth and what goes out his urinary/bowel tracts. Rob's sis used pooping in her pants as a means to show anger, control, etc. I suspect this is the BIG BOY VERSION of the same. Is there any way you can ignore (or at least not respond negatively?) this behavior? If you do, you take the power out of his action. It's utilizing the "Basket" approach to the nth degree. Perhaps if you don't react, the "appeal" of getting your goat will be gone and he will stop? There just doesn't seem to be any other possible explanation that I can see. Suz [/QUOTE]
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