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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 325935" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>If this happened overnight, and he is 12 or older, I would be thinking it is drug use and drinking. At rare times mental illness can come on with a bang...one day you're ok with no symptoms, the next day you are horrible. But the biggest thing to look for before everything else with a kid who suddenly flips a switch is drugs and alcohol. My daughter is 13 and doesn't do it, but my oldest one did at twelve, and my 13 year old knows kids who already use drugs. And I don't mean just weed as weed causes apathy, not destruction. ADHD drugs, crushed in pillcrushers and snorted, are big abused drugs. My daughter tells me Adderrall used to go for $10 pill and this was over ten years ago. Stimulants, abused, cause this kind of tantrumming and behavior. So do other, more advanced drugs...not trying to scare you, but if it's drug abuse finding out right away is better than having it go on and being in denial (like we were).</p><p></p><p>I would spring surprise drug tests on him. They don't show all the drugs, but the idea of a test may scare him straight if this is part of the problem. </p><p></p><p>It would be helpful if you would do a signature like I did below. I am really sorry you have to be here. Been there/done it all. I hope you find your answers. Good luck, regardless of what you decide to do, but please don't ever think, "Not my kid. It's impossible." That's what I thought too. It's what most parents think at first. (((Hugs)))</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 325935, member: 1550"] If this happened overnight, and he is 12 or older, I would be thinking it is drug use and drinking. At rare times mental illness can come on with a bang...one day you're ok with no symptoms, the next day you are horrible. But the biggest thing to look for before everything else with a kid who suddenly flips a switch is drugs and alcohol. My daughter is 13 and doesn't do it, but my oldest one did at twelve, and my 13 year old knows kids who already use drugs. And I don't mean just weed as weed causes apathy, not destruction. ADHD drugs, crushed in pillcrushers and snorted, are big abused drugs. My daughter tells me Adderrall used to go for $10 pill and this was over ten years ago. Stimulants, abused, cause this kind of tantrumming and behavior. So do other, more advanced drugs...not trying to scare you, but if it's drug abuse finding out right away is better than having it go on and being in denial (like we were). I would spring surprise drug tests on him. They don't show all the drugs, but the idea of a test may scare him straight if this is part of the problem. It would be helpful if you would do a signature like I did below. I am really sorry you have to be here. Been there/done it all. I hope you find your answers. Good luck, regardless of what you decide to do, but please don't ever think, "Not my kid. It's impossible." That's what I thought too. It's what most parents think at first. (((Hugs))) [/QUOTE]
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