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<blockquote data-quote="frostie" data-source="post: 448630" data-attributes="member: 12446"><p>Bruna's stroy all started when she was nine,. She started having trouble with math. The teacher kept complaining that Bruna was not listening well. She would ask how to do a problem the second the teacher explained it. So eventually we had a learning test done. It came out all good. We couldn't explain why Bruna would have these moments of "blanks" and then panic that she didn't understand. At this point she started seeing an art therapist to see if there was something underlying there. Nothing really came out of it. They said she was fine.</p><p></p><p>later she started not eating when she would be angry. We didn't notice until the lunch lady sent a note home from school saying that Bruna ate nothing during lunch daily. She would simply refuse. Bruna was taking her lunch and throwing it out as soon as she got home in her room where no one would see it. We started consulting again this time with a psychologist. She never really participated in any "talk" therapy. She would always say she didn't know or didn't care. Eventually we switched to family therapy with the same psychologist. This mounted to more frustration because we were putting words in her mouth, she never shared anything on how she felt or why she was getting angry or why she wasn't eating. This went on for a long time until that clinic closed and somehow our file ended up no where. </p><p></p><p>During this time we would end up at the Children's hospital because she would go on a screaming rampage, eventally wanting to run away, then threatening to kill herself and hurting herself. This past Christmas she had a big outburst and she dialed 911 and hung up. She was upset for quite awhile on how some friends were treating her or lack of. She wanted so badly to be friends these these kids and them not really caring for her didn't turn her away but made her fight harder to belong there. When 911 called back and i explained why she had dialed they came by. Because she had scratch marks all over her arms they decided to take her to the hospital. That was the first time they put her in an isolation room with security myself there. She screamed and banged for over 2 hours. Once she calmed down they sent us home with an appointment to see a psychiatrist. When we met with the psy he mentioned to us ODD. he told us to read the book by Green and to use the teen-crisiss service with her. he also suggested she start anger management classes. </p><p></p><p>At this point, my son was being seen by a psychologist for Functional Abdominal Pain Syndrome, he was getting worse and his sister seemed to be the trigger for his condition, so they suggested that both kids be re-evaluated by the same psychiatric team. This was more to help my son who had uncontrolable stomache pain and was out of school for a year because of it. Instead they noticed that Bruna was very sad. School wasn't a happy place, home wasn't a happy place and she was very emotional about it. The following week they gave her a new psychologist and gave us a social worker to work with the family. At her first appointment she told the psychologist that she was going to talk with the guidance cousellor at school so she didn't see the need to see the psychologist. A 12 year old decided her treatment plan because they told us since she was going to talk to the guidance counselor the social worker would be enough to handle us all. Again no real diagnosis was made and Bruna was runnign the show. So we started seeing the SW who started being more tough on her to talk and she would have outbursts in the office. I think this was the first time they were seeing first hand how quickly Bruna would go from not being interested in the topic to screaming and controlling it. We continued going as a family but it was alot more of the same, she wouldn't talk and we would talk for her. Until this May when she decided for a reason we still do not know to this day to take some pills, she went to school and when she got violently sick to her stomache she confessed to taking the drugs and ended up in the hospital. The psychiatrist there suggested very intense family therapy but suggested we continue being followed by the Children's hospital because they have more resources. So back to the SW we went. The following week she hurt herself and i went back to the SW and said more needed to be done. She then resuggested this 9 month treatment plan that would be more intense and safer for her. I've been putting peices together but after reading some posts on this site I feel more armed to ask specifically what are we dealing with?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="frostie, post: 448630, member: 12446"] Bruna's stroy all started when she was nine,. She started having trouble with math. The teacher kept complaining that Bruna was not listening well. She would ask how to do a problem the second the teacher explained it. So eventually we had a learning test done. It came out all good. We couldn't explain why Bruna would have these moments of "blanks" and then panic that she didn't understand. At this point she started seeing an art therapist to see if there was something underlying there. Nothing really came out of it. They said she was fine. later she started not eating when she would be angry. We didn't notice until the lunch lady sent a note home from school saying that Bruna ate nothing during lunch daily. She would simply refuse. Bruna was taking her lunch and throwing it out as soon as she got home in her room where no one would see it. We started consulting again this time with a psychologist. She never really participated in any "talk" therapy. She would always say she didn't know or didn't care. Eventually we switched to family therapy with the same psychologist. This mounted to more frustration because we were putting words in her mouth, she never shared anything on how she felt or why she was getting angry or why she wasn't eating. This went on for a long time until that clinic closed and somehow our file ended up no where. During this time we would end up at the Children's hospital because she would go on a screaming rampage, eventally wanting to run away, then threatening to kill herself and hurting herself. This past Christmas she had a big outburst and she dialed 911 and hung up. She was upset for quite awhile on how some friends were treating her or lack of. She wanted so badly to be friends these these kids and them not really caring for her didn't turn her away but made her fight harder to belong there. When 911 called back and i explained why she had dialed they came by. Because she had scratch marks all over her arms they decided to take her to the hospital. That was the first time they put her in an isolation room with security myself there. She screamed and banged for over 2 hours. Once she calmed down they sent us home with an appointment to see a psychiatrist. When we met with the psy he mentioned to us ODD. he told us to read the book by Green and to use the teen-crisiss service with her. he also suggested she start anger management classes. At this point, my son was being seen by a psychologist for Functional Abdominal Pain Syndrome, he was getting worse and his sister seemed to be the trigger for his condition, so they suggested that both kids be re-evaluated by the same psychiatric team. This was more to help my son who had uncontrolable stomache pain and was out of school for a year because of it. Instead they noticed that Bruna was very sad. School wasn't a happy place, home wasn't a happy place and she was very emotional about it. The following week they gave her a new psychologist and gave us a social worker to work with the family. At her first appointment she told the psychologist that she was going to talk with the guidance cousellor at school so she didn't see the need to see the psychologist. A 12 year old decided her treatment plan because they told us since she was going to talk to the guidance counselor the social worker would be enough to handle us all. Again no real diagnosis was made and Bruna was runnign the show. So we started seeing the SW who started being more tough on her to talk and she would have outbursts in the office. I think this was the first time they were seeing first hand how quickly Bruna would go from not being interested in the topic to screaming and controlling it. We continued going as a family but it was alot more of the same, she wouldn't talk and we would talk for her. Until this May when she decided for a reason we still do not know to this day to take some pills, she went to school and when she got violently sick to her stomache she confessed to taking the drugs and ended up in the hospital. The psychiatrist there suggested very intense family therapy but suggested we continue being followed by the Children's hospital because they have more resources. So back to the SW we went. The following week she hurt herself and i went back to the SW and said more needed to be done. She then resuggested this 9 month treatment plan that would be more intense and safer for her. I've been putting peices together but after reading some posts on this site I feel more armed to ask specifically what are we dealing with? [/QUOTE]
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