Yes when was 9, 4th grade, he was diagnosed with ADHD inattentive type, tried the concerta but kept him up all night.. he had great grades and lots of friends. We knew his behavior was an issue. 6th grade went to a therapist but that lasted only a few months because we had to take him kicking and screaming. All the issue began in jr high, lost of his elementary school friends and started hanging out with the "punks". Jr hi he took stratterra but never saw a change. Then high school he would start out strong but refused to get involved. Again he was dropped by his peer group and The ODD started getting worse and the group of boys he did hang with was worse. smoking, bad grades, smoking, stealing. WHen he was 16, I finally did the Neuro psychiatric exam. I could not do it earlier because of cost which was not covered under our insurance. It came back with Learning Disability (LD) in Math, ADHD inattentive type. ODD depressive disorder and extremely intelegent when the data was presented in a way he could remember. Also, the Dr said he scored low in executive functioning skills. By the middle of his junior year, we had an escort pick him up and take him to a wilderness therepy program in Utah. He stayed in the wilderness for 13 weeks and my happy boy was returned to me. The wilderness therapist strongly recommended us to send him to a theraputic high school, but i'm sorry i don't have $90,000. we hired an educational specialist and was recommended to send him for summer school, $5000 and senior year 30,000K to all boys college pred boarding school in OH specializing in ADHD. He did great over the summer there and even in the fall but come November the angry ODD boy returned You see we were mislead by the school and the educational specialist. None of the other boys went thru wilderness all of them had just as many problems as my son.. some even worse. and he was stuck with them all day and night. We only agreed to send him there 1 semester because we could not afford the entire year plus he hated it soo much. By december, he was inches from being expelled. He begged, to come home..made promises of doing homework and following all the house rules. total manipulation. He has been home less than 2 months and i wish he was gone! He has been excepted into several colleges,and a juniior college all in the next state over but if he does not graduate HS he is not going. He has refused to do homework and has 7 lates. Last week he had a meltdown and walked off. He has missed an entire week of school. School refusal and putting another hole in the wall, wednesday morning i had enough and called the police to take him to the hospital to try and get him evaluted again. it backfired he convinced the social worker i was over reacting and they released him within the hour and told me to call the police again if he gets angry again. it was a joke! its been awful since last week.. The only positive thing was that he was due to see the internest. We talked to him and he called my sons therapist. Our son went to the his apptmt and he left with an anti depressant perscription and this doctor actually convinced him he should take it. We then contacted the HS. The catholic HS wanted him out because now he has missed so much school and his lack of following rules. We told him this was his last chance. It was finish or get GED. If he took the GED he would not be able to leave in the fall. We begged the school to give him a second chance. He is on a 2 week probation, if he is on time, behaved and hands in homework he can stay and graduate in May. Its 3 months, 45 school days. He has all this homework to do to catch up.This all happened on Friday. Now it is Sunday, dId he do the homework some not even half. Had to go hang out all day saturday. We did not give him the new medications yesterday because we were afraid he would be drinking. We gave it to him this morning with a big breakfast. Of course, he would have the adverse side effects. The tutor came this afternoon, and he felt like throwing up. I'm so on edge. He only has half the work done. I don't know whats going to happen tomorrow.We decided we will give him his second dose with dinner and see what happens. The dr put him on a new medication called Vilbryd How long will it take to maybe see a change? I am not expecting much nothing ever works.. why should this be any different.. I'm sorry this is long and rambling.. is there anyone on this board like me? It so hard to be judged by everyone. Now, by calling the police, the neighbors saw..ughh. I could use some success stories if any? I need some hope that this is just one chapter in our lives and things will get better. I just don't know what to do with this kid. he turns 18 in april. we give and give and he refuses to do his share. I get so angry at him or I am so sad for him because he can't help it. I go back and forth. What i need more than anything is an escape from my family!
