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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 178311" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>A good neuropsychologist (who is a Psychologist with extra training in the brain) diagnoses everything and is often much better at it than psychiatrists. With your child's issues, I'd also want him appraised for Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) issues, learning disabilities, etc. NeuroPsychs do excel at this, but can also spot ADHD and bipolar etc. </p><p>Neurologists are the ones that don't diagnose psychiatric problems and often don't know much about Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) either (as odd as that sounds). They are looking for abnormal brainwaves and concrete stuff.</p><p>My son was tested for ten hours by the neuropsychologist. He nailed whate everyone else missed and is now doing great. He is also off medications. None of the medications really did squat. He is better off of them, but needed intensive school interventions. He was also a "strange" learner. He could orally answer, but not write it down. He also did not understand "astracts." He had concrete thinking. His social skills had to be text book taught. </p><p>I never dreamed he'd do this well, and I do have to owe this to the neuropsychologist as his Psychiatrist told us "He can't be on the autism spectrum. if he was, he wouldn't be able to go from one room to the next without raging." Um, as highly educated as this Psychiatrist was (and he also came highly recommended) he knew NOTHING about high functioning autism. For all you know, your son's trouble may come because he has Aspergers--he has some red flags for that, especially his learning differences. in my opinion a long list of diagnosis. means "I don't know for sure." And a long list of medications means "I don't know, but I'll try this and that." I may be wrong, but that's how it has been for me and my son. I myself have a long history of being in the mental health care system as a patient and can't tell you how often I've been misdiagnosed and had medications thrown at me that mostly didn't help. Back to my precious son. Thank God we got another opinion. It changed my son's life for the better.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 178311, member: 1550"] A good neuropsychologist (who is a Psychologist with extra training in the brain) diagnoses everything and is often much better at it than psychiatrists. With your child's issues, I'd also want him appraised for Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) issues, learning disabilities, etc. NeuroPsychs do excel at this, but can also spot ADHD and bipolar etc. Neurologists are the ones that don't diagnose psychiatric problems and often don't know much about Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) either (as odd as that sounds). They are looking for abnormal brainwaves and concrete stuff. My son was tested for ten hours by the neuropsychologist. He nailed whate everyone else missed and is now doing great. He is also off medications. None of the medications really did squat. He is better off of them, but needed intensive school interventions. He was also a "strange" learner. He could orally answer, but not write it down. He also did not understand "astracts." He had concrete thinking. His social skills had to be text book taught. I never dreamed he'd do this well, and I do have to owe this to the neuropsychologist as his Psychiatrist told us "He can't be on the autism spectrum. if he was, he wouldn't be able to go from one room to the next without raging." Um, as highly educated as this Psychiatrist was (and he also came highly recommended) he knew NOTHING about high functioning autism. For all you know, your son's trouble may come because he has Aspergers--he has some red flags for that, especially his learning differences. in my opinion a long list of diagnosis. means "I don't know for sure." And a long list of medications means "I don't know, but I'll try this and that." I may be wrong, but that's how it has been for me and my son. I myself have a long history of being in the mental health care system as a patient and can't tell you how often I've been misdiagnosed and had medications thrown at me that mostly didn't help. Back to my precious son. Thank God we got another opinion. It changed my son's life for the better. [/QUOTE]
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