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Last week we had an evaluation at a new place, where they offer counseling, a psychiatrist, a counselor that comes out to the home and school, and other than an inadequate evaluation, at least they're offering more services at this new place.
Personally I've never seen a psychiatrist. Never needed one. However my difficult child does and we're scheduled to see one soon.
The evaluator seemed to be a bit distracted by her morning sickness and I felt at times she was looking for MY diagnosis of my difficult child, which irritated me. I KNOW she has ODD, AND something else. However since I couldn't specifically say with authority WHAT other thing she has, on their analysis and paper it says ODD and nothing else.
I don't know if there is medication for ODD or not.
I don't know how to convince the Psychiatrist that she needs medication for something more than ODD. Or just medication period.
Her former counselor told me that in her opinion she does need medication, the few times she saw her in the office she could tell that she'd "space out" and other times bounce off the walls, that she needs something to take the edge off. I totally agree.
What should I expect or accept from this first appointment? Can I push for medication even when I don't have a clue which type she should have?
What do I say or ask the doctor?
And my gut says I may be making a mistake by changing places, but the other place didn't offer all of these services, if they had I'd still be taking my difficult child there.
I know the difficult child may very well be composed and appear fine to the doctor, usually that's the case, she's looking good while I"m buckling from the stress and strain and confusion and frustration of all of this stuff.
I truly hope he doesn't get off on the "bad mom" attitude like the evaluator did. She didn't outright accuse me of it, however she commented several times that since my difficult child is okay at school and "only seems to have a problem at home, with mom, control issues and other things" that well mom is not a good parent.
Any suggestions on how to handle things at the psychiatrist's office would be appreciated, at the moment I know that the evaluator's notes are lacking, and I know I need to maybe make a list of all the "weird things" like sneaking food, running away, the ODD stuff, the blank looks we get when we ask her questions, the "difficult child isn't here, she's gone" in other words at times she acknowledges being spoken to, but not by her nickname nor given name "those people aren't here" and when asked what to call her, it's like...no one's home she can't give me a name to call her....
I never know what to tell them and what not to tell them. I just know there are a lot of weird things and adjustments we've had to make like locking up some important papers after a good amount of irreplaceable things have been ruined, and locking up the fridge so I don't have to buy milk daily, things like that.....
Hopefully I'll figure out what's relevant and not before the appointment.
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Personally I've never seen a psychiatrist. Never needed one. However my difficult child does and we're scheduled to see one soon.
The evaluator seemed to be a bit distracted by her morning sickness and I felt at times she was looking for MY diagnosis of my difficult child, which irritated me. I KNOW she has ODD, AND something else. However since I couldn't specifically say with authority WHAT other thing she has, on their analysis and paper it says ODD and nothing else.
I don't know if there is medication for ODD or not.
I don't know how to convince the Psychiatrist that she needs medication for something more than ODD. Or just medication period.
Her former counselor told me that in her opinion she does need medication, the few times she saw her in the office she could tell that she'd "space out" and other times bounce off the walls, that she needs something to take the edge off. I totally agree.
What should I expect or accept from this first appointment? Can I push for medication even when I don't have a clue which type she should have?
What do I say or ask the doctor?
And my gut says I may be making a mistake by changing places, but the other place didn't offer all of these services, if they had I'd still be taking my difficult child there.
I know the difficult child may very well be composed and appear fine to the doctor, usually that's the case, she's looking good while I"m buckling from the stress and strain and confusion and frustration of all of this stuff.
I truly hope he doesn't get off on the "bad mom" attitude like the evaluator did. She didn't outright accuse me of it, however she commented several times that since my difficult child is okay at school and "only seems to have a problem at home, with mom, control issues and other things" that well mom is not a good parent.
Any suggestions on how to handle things at the psychiatrist's office would be appreciated, at the moment I know that the evaluator's notes are lacking, and I know I need to maybe make a list of all the "weird things" like sneaking food, running away, the ODD stuff, the blank looks we get when we ask her questions, the "difficult child isn't here, she's gone" in other words at times she acknowledges being spoken to, but not by her nickname nor given name "those people aren't here" and when asked what to call her, it's like...no one's home she can't give me a name to call her....
I never know what to tell them and what not to tell them. I just know there are a lot of weird things and adjustments we've had to make like locking up some important papers after a good amount of irreplaceable things have been ruined, and locking up the fridge so I don't have to buy milk daily, things like that.....
Hopefully I'll figure out what's relevant and not before the appointment.
luvbooks