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I officially think the psychiatrist is crazy...... (longish, as usual)
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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 455314" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I read this earlier and wanted to think on it before I posted. My first impression upon reading the post was that she was mixing up patients and either not reading her notes from the last sessions/sessions or she takes lousy notes. I didn't want to post this at first because I wanted to see if any other possibilities came to me. That first impression is still what I think may be happening.</p><p></p><p>The way to cope is to start taking a list in with you. A list of symptoms and how often they are occurring, a list of medications and the changes made in the last appointment and changes made since the last appointment. Also a list of questions that you need answers for. A copy of this needs to go into difficult child's file and a copy needs to stay in your Parent Report. You also NEED to start a journal where you keep a daily log of behavior, problems, medications, and any other issues. Be sure to include difficult child's moods in the journal.</p><p></p><p>With the journal you have evidence of what is going on, rather that going by memory. It gives the doctor something to see what daily life is like for difficult child other than just what you can remember to tell her during the appointment.</p><p></p><p>You also need to create a parent report. It is a document that you create that details just about everything about your difficult child. It lets you keep track of everything and organize everything. You can give copies of whatever parts of it that the psychiatrist/therapist/school/whomever needs. Just be sure that you only give htme what they need, esp school people (teachers, sp ed teachers/director/school therapist/etc...) because many of us have had material from the report get into the hands of people who had no business with it and/or poeple who would use it against difficult children. </p><p></p><p>The outline for the parent report was figured out many years ago by moms here on the board. The link in my sig will take you to the thread with the outline and explanation of the report. It truly is an amazing tool. Be sure to work on it over several chunks of time rather than trying to do it all at once. It is too big to work on all at once with-o forgetting a lot and getting overwhelmed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 455314, member: 1233"] I read this earlier and wanted to think on it before I posted. My first impression upon reading the post was that she was mixing up patients and either not reading her notes from the last sessions/sessions or she takes lousy notes. I didn't want to post this at first because I wanted to see if any other possibilities came to me. That first impression is still what I think may be happening. The way to cope is to start taking a list in with you. A list of symptoms and how often they are occurring, a list of medications and the changes made in the last appointment and changes made since the last appointment. Also a list of questions that you need answers for. A copy of this needs to go into difficult child's file and a copy needs to stay in your Parent Report. You also NEED to start a journal where you keep a daily log of behavior, problems, medications, and any other issues. Be sure to include difficult child's moods in the journal. With the journal you have evidence of what is going on, rather that going by memory. It gives the doctor something to see what daily life is like for difficult child other than just what you can remember to tell her during the appointment. You also need to create a parent report. It is a document that you create that details just about everything about your difficult child. It lets you keep track of everything and organize everything. You can give copies of whatever parts of it that the psychiatrist/therapist/school/whomever needs. Just be sure that you only give htme what they need, esp school people (teachers, sp ed teachers/director/school therapist/etc...) because many of us have had material from the report get into the hands of people who had no business with it and/or poeple who would use it against difficult children. The outline for the parent report was figured out many years ago by moms here on the board. The link in my sig will take you to the thread with the outline and explanation of the report. It truly is an amazing tool. Be sure to work on it over several chunks of time rather than trying to do it all at once. It is too big to work on all at once with-o forgetting a lot and getting overwhelmed. [/QUOTE]
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