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<blockquote data-quote="Second Time Around" data-source="post: 675387" data-attributes="member: 18739"><p>I agree with others who have advised not to rule anything out and not to be certain that she has classic ADHD. My stepson was diagnosed with ADHD when he was six and put on stimulants because he was extremely impulsive, always moving, etc. He had always had a hot temper since he was a baby, but he became almost unbearable to live with after that - always irritable, had hour-long melt-downs over very minor things, such as difficulty putting on his boots, ran away from home and school frequently, and hurt someone at least once a week. This behavior went on for years. We kept looking for answers. It seemed like much more than ADHD and looked at bipolar disorder, but he had a child psychiatrist who insisted that children couldn't have bipolar disorder (which is now classified as disruptive mood disregulation disorder in children). Finally, he was placed in a residential treatment facility for a year. There was a different psychiatrist attached to the facility, who diagnosed him with bipolar disorder and changed his medications at age 12. He has been a different person since then. He is cheerful most of the time and no longer spends his life looking for a fight. He can still have a blow up and get angry, but it only lasts a few minutes and once every couple of months instead of a couple of times a day. He and everyone else around him endured six years of violence and anger because of this misdiagnosis.</p><p></p><p>I have thought for several years that he is on the autism spectrum as well - very literal, poor social skills, unable to put himself in another's place, sensory issues, motor coordination issues. However, I can't convince my husband to have him re-evaluated and his doctor doesn't see it - the same doctor who couldn't see that he has bipolar disorder, which we had to go back to after he was released from residential treatment. Child psychiatrists are very limited, so we're stuck, when he could be getting sensory integration therapy and other additional services.</p><p></p><p>So my advice would be to look at everything and keep pushing if the diagnosis and treatments don't seem to be helping.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Second Time Around, post: 675387, member: 18739"] I agree with others who have advised not to rule anything out and not to be certain that she has classic ADHD. My stepson was diagnosed with ADHD when he was six and put on stimulants because he was extremely impulsive, always moving, etc. He had always had a hot temper since he was a baby, but he became almost unbearable to live with after that - always irritable, had hour-long melt-downs over very minor things, such as difficulty putting on his boots, ran away from home and school frequently, and hurt someone at least once a week. This behavior went on for years. We kept looking for answers. It seemed like much more than ADHD and looked at bipolar disorder, but he had a child psychiatrist who insisted that children couldn't have bipolar disorder (which is now classified as disruptive mood disregulation disorder in children). Finally, he was placed in a residential treatment facility for a year. There was a different psychiatrist attached to the facility, who diagnosed him with bipolar disorder and changed his medications at age 12. He has been a different person since then. He is cheerful most of the time and no longer spends his life looking for a fight. He can still have a blow up and get angry, but it only lasts a few minutes and once every couple of months instead of a couple of times a day. He and everyone else around him endured six years of violence and anger because of this misdiagnosis. I have thought for several years that he is on the autism spectrum as well - very literal, poor social skills, unable to put himself in another's place, sensory issues, motor coordination issues. However, I can't convince my husband to have him re-evaluated and his doctor doesn't see it - the same doctor who couldn't see that he has bipolar disorder, which we had to go back to after he was released from residential treatment. Child psychiatrists are very limited, so we're stuck, when he could be getting sensory integration therapy and other additional services. So my advice would be to look at everything and keep pushing if the diagnosis and treatments don't seem to be helping. [/QUOTE]
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