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<blockquote data-quote="exhausted" data-source="post: 422046" data-attributes="member: 11001"><p>My difficult child-now 16 has ended in my bed since age 5 or so. When she is home, she still does this at age 16. Of course we now know it is the PTSD. We tried everything the books said to get her to stay in her bed. We finially put a mattress on the floor so we could sleep with peace. I don't know if this is the right thing or not but we had to sleep. She is now (last 3 months) on a sleep medication which helps her everywhere but home. She still comes in our room when she is here. But this is years of sleep trouble and the fact that she has spent so much time the last 2 years away from us. It is the last thing on our long list we want to tackle at this point. </p><p> </p><p>We did a thing called (my spelling will be bad here) Saccrial/Cranial therapy for my boy (ADHD). We did it through a massage therapist who was trained in this. I don't understand how it works completely-but it had some effect on him. Had to do it weekly. He was on medications. but they wore off by the time he was home and he was a handfull. We did have improvement. We also did biofeedback. That was the best of all, we got him off medications.- but he was in late Junior high by this time. They were working with very young kids in the center. Both are contraversial therapies. But they helped us. He is a great kid today and successful mechanic. Mind you, we did start ritalin at age 5 when he started school-teachers would have killed him and he would have no friends, we did not want him to pay that price. Ritalin at that time was the most studied drug-our kid is huge (so weight loss not an issue), and I know as a teacher these kids will self medicate by High School if they don't gain a sense of control. By high school, our boy had enough control and motivation he was able to stop medication. Today he uses some really good hobbies to burn off energy-he is rebuilding old cars and plays the drums. Just thought I would share some ideas. Stay the course!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="exhausted, post: 422046, member: 11001"] My difficult child-now 16 has ended in my bed since age 5 or so. When she is home, she still does this at age 16. Of course we now know it is the PTSD. We tried everything the books said to get her to stay in her bed. We finially put a mattress on the floor so we could sleep with peace. I don't know if this is the right thing or not but we had to sleep. She is now (last 3 months) on a sleep medication which helps her everywhere but home. She still comes in our room when she is here. But this is years of sleep trouble and the fact that she has spent so much time the last 2 years away from us. It is the last thing on our long list we want to tackle at this point. We did a thing called (my spelling will be bad here) Saccrial/Cranial therapy for my boy (ADHD). We did it through a massage therapist who was trained in this. I don't understand how it works completely-but it had some effect on him. Had to do it weekly. He was on medications. but they wore off by the time he was home and he was a handfull. We did have improvement. We also did biofeedback. That was the best of all, we got him off medications.- but he was in late Junior high by this time. They were working with very young kids in the center. Both are contraversial therapies. But they helped us. He is a great kid today and successful mechanic. Mind you, we did start ritalin at age 5 when he started school-teachers would have killed him and he would have no friends, we did not want him to pay that price. Ritalin at that time was the most studied drug-our kid is huge (so weight loss not an issue), and I know as a teacher these kids will self medicate by High School if they don't gain a sense of control. By high school, our boy had enough control and motivation he was able to stop medication. Today he uses some really good hobbies to burn off energy-he is rebuilding old cars and plays the drums. Just thought I would share some ideas. Stay the course! [/QUOTE]
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