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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 680728" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Yes and know. I know what you mean... but the question means we haven't written a clear enough definition. Thanks for asking.</p><p> </p><p>Multiple challenges. That is too broad. We're not talking physical challenges, for example. Nor addiction. Nor, as a main driver, the more common mental health issues such as anxiety and depression. The main title, I thought, provided a restricted definition, but it might be clearer this way:</p><p> </p><p><strong>Developmental & Mental: <em>Parenting teen and adult children with multiple or complex developmental challenges and mental illnesses</em></strong></p><p> </p><p>Schizophrenia is by definition a complex mental illness.</p><p>Anxiety is not - but if it is one of a list of challenges, it can come into the picture.</p><p>If addiction is in the picture, it is known to be secondary to other problems.</p><p> </p><p>Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) is complex. So are bi-polar, eating disorders, asperger's and autism spectrum.</p><p>If you are only dealing with ONE of these, there are other good forums out there on the web. These are also disorders that tend to attract an alphabet soup of co-morbid disorders, and managing that complexity is uniquely difficult. When you start dealing with multiple challenges, or cases where things have been caught much too late and there are no good answers left... there are no good forums anywhere.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 680728, member: 11791"] Yes and know. I know what you mean... but the question means we haven't written a clear enough definition. Thanks for asking. Multiple challenges. That is too broad. We're not talking physical challenges, for example. Nor addiction. Nor, as a main driver, the more common mental health issues such as anxiety and depression. The main title, I thought, provided a restricted definition, but it might be clearer this way: [B]Developmental & Mental: [I]Parenting teen and adult children with multiple or complex developmental challenges and mental illnesses[/I][/B] Schizophrenia is by definition a complex mental illness. Anxiety is not - but if it is one of a list of challenges, it can come into the picture. If addiction is in the picture, it is known to be secondary to other problems. Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) is complex. So are bi-polar, eating disorders, asperger's and autism spectrum. If you are only dealing with ONE of these, there are other good forums out there on the web. These are also disorders that tend to attract an alphabet soup of co-morbid disorders, and managing that complexity is uniquely difficult. When you start dealing with multiple challenges, or cases where things have been caught much too late and there are no good answers left... there are no good forums anywhere. [/QUOTE]
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