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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 30371" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Not at all. I've always known there were good doctors, with stellar reps, that people were happy with and terrible quacks. I always was aware that non-MD therapist and even non-MD psycologists (minus NeuroPsychs) are terrible diagnostitians and that good psychiatrists want to make their own diagnoses, not hand a kid over to some psycologist. I started psychiatry at any early age since I have bipolar and I've dealt with the good, the bad, and the ugly.This helped me with my son. I pretty much dissed anything a non-Psychiatrist said, but I also didn't feel ANY professional was exempt from being wrong. I went with my gut. My kid had a BiPolar (BP) diagnoses, but he didn't appear to have the moodswings, and he had tons of symptoms for Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD), so we had a neuropsychologist test him for twelve hours. He said Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD)-not otherwise specified and that has been a blessed diagnosis. Since then, my son is off medications, and is doing phenomenal. You can't entrust your child to everyone, and you always need to question, if something isn't working. Any doctor who overmedicates is a quack in my book. Also, I don't trust long laundry lists of diagnosis. Hone in on the major one and stabilize the child. You can do therapy along with that, but therapy alone will only help somebody who has a situational problem. Alone, therapy will not help an unstable child. All the reward charts and parentings methods in the world can't help a child who is truly mentally or neurological ill/different. I would put my child on medications, if necessary, but I'd monitor everything if I felt the doctor was piling on the medications too thick, I would object. As parents, we have that right. Check out who has a great rep. If possible, avoid local county mental health clinics--they often get the worst of the bad, and a high turnover rate. I've always known the system is flawed, but the mentally ill and neurologically impaired NEED treatment. It's up to us to find the BEST professionals, not just any ole person who has a title. All Psychiatrists and NeuroPsychs are NOT created equal. The one involved with this child who died was likely from a mental health clinic (low cost) and not "up" on the latest medications or treatment. The family was poor so that makes sense. But we're poor too...lol...and I found really good help for my kid. Sure, we had to travel, but it was worth it :smile: For what it's worth I tried healthy living, and still live a very healthy active lifestyle. It made me in fantastic physical shape, but in no way did it stop or even curb my terrible moodswings.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 30371, member: 1550"] Not at all. I've always known there were good doctors, with stellar reps, that people were happy with and terrible quacks. I always was aware that non-MD therapist and even non-MD psycologists (minus NeuroPsychs) are terrible diagnostitians and that good psychiatrists want to make their own diagnoses, not hand a kid over to some psycologist. I started psychiatry at any early age since I have bipolar and I've dealt with the good, the bad, and the ugly.This helped me with my son. I pretty much dissed anything a non-Psychiatrist said, but I also didn't feel ANY professional was exempt from being wrong. I went with my gut. My kid had a BiPolar (BP) diagnoses, but he didn't appear to have the moodswings, and he had tons of symptoms for Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD), so we had a neuropsychologist test him for twelve hours. He said Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD)-not otherwise specified and that has been a blessed diagnosis. Since then, my son is off medications, and is doing phenomenal. You can't entrust your child to everyone, and you always need to question, if something isn't working. Any doctor who overmedicates is a quack in my book. Also, I don't trust long laundry lists of diagnosis. Hone in on the major one and stabilize the child. You can do therapy along with that, but therapy alone will only help somebody who has a situational problem. Alone, therapy will not help an unstable child. All the reward charts and parentings methods in the world can't help a child who is truly mentally or neurological ill/different. I would put my child on medications, if necessary, but I'd monitor everything if I felt the doctor was piling on the medications too thick, I would object. As parents, we have that right. Check out who has a great rep. If possible, avoid local county mental health clinics--they often get the worst of the bad, and a high turnover rate. I've always known the system is flawed, but the mentally ill and neurologically impaired NEED treatment. It's up to us to find the BEST professionals, not just any ole person who has a title. All Psychiatrists and NeuroPsychs are NOT created equal. The one involved with this child who died was likely from a mental health clinic (low cost) and not "up" on the latest medications or treatment. The family was poor so that makes sense. But we're poor too...lol...and I found really good help for my kid. Sure, we had to travel, but it was worth it [img]:smile:[/img] For what it's worth I tried healthy living, and still live a very healthy active lifestyle. It made me in fantastic physical shape, but in no way did it stop or even curb my terrible moodswings. [/QUOTE]
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