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<blockquote data-quote="Calgon_Take_Me_Away" data-source="post: 178472" data-attributes="member: 5645"><p><span style="font-size: 15px">My biggest thing is, "you see my son once a year and don't really see him" ~ the same goes with- the previous psychiatrist; "you see him for one hour every 6 - 8 weeks and you expect to know him?" I do know that psychiatrists in Iowa are few & far between. It takes months to get in ~ for example, the therapist referred us to one 45 mins away, I turned in the paperwork the mid/end of May, heard back from them a week and half ago that his appointment was scheduled for Sept 29. Last Tuesday we made an unscheduled stop for a talk about behaviors at which the therapist called the psychiatric's office and said we needed something much sooner because of the issues at hand so they got us in the next morning (Wed). I have mixed emotions on it because 1) it was video conferencing ~ we sat in a room watching the psychiatric on a tv while she was 7 hrs away watching us on a tv; 2) the whole appointment took 1 1/2 hrs ~ 10 mins was just GHG and the rest was just me. She talked to me while actually going through his file and asked a lot of questions. She switched him from Concerta to Vyvanse, said if that didn't work we'd try risperdal and if that didn't work we'd try Prozac. When I left the room, GHG was asleep on the waiting room floor. He went to bed at 9, up at 7:30 which is fairly normal during the summer (but it sure beats the going to bed at 8 and up at 4 to start the day like he used to).</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Yes, it is a try this and that approach. The therapist is as confused as anyone else on an actual diagnosis. His words to me a while back were, "usually I can blame these types of behavior on parenting and environment, but in this case I can't". GHG will tell you all the things I've tried teaching him and totally go against every one. Last Thursday (because of medication switching) therapist saw GHG with-o a stimulant medication for the first time. He asked, "Is this what you go through every morning from the time he wakes up to the time the medications kick in?" Even though in the past I've told him the behaviors, he was floored at seeing them. GHG did the most "involved" talking while laying on the floor and his feet on the arm of the chair.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Something I have found that works great at getting confessions is fingerprinting. Last winter we were having lots of "I didn't do it" so I told the kids about police work and fingerprinting to find out who did it. Now all I have to do is get a plastic baggie, place the item in discussion in it and with-i minutes I have someone begging me not to take it in because they did it.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calgon_Take_Me_Away, post: 178472, member: 5645"] [SIZE=4]My biggest thing is, "you see my son once a year and don't really see him" ~ the same goes with- the previous psychiatrist; "you see him for one hour every 6 - 8 weeks and you expect to know him?" I do know that psychiatrists in Iowa are few & far between. It takes months to get in ~ for example, the therapist referred us to one 45 mins away, I turned in the paperwork the mid/end of May, heard back from them a week and half ago that his appointment was scheduled for Sept 29. Last Tuesday we made an unscheduled stop for a talk about behaviors at which the therapist called the psychiatric's office and said we needed something much sooner because of the issues at hand so they got us in the next morning (Wed). I have mixed emotions on it because 1) it was video conferencing ~ we sat in a room watching the psychiatric on a tv while she was 7 hrs away watching us on a tv; 2) the whole appointment took 1 1/2 hrs ~ 10 mins was just GHG and the rest was just me. She talked to me while actually going through his file and asked a lot of questions. She switched him from Concerta to Vyvanse, said if that didn't work we'd try risperdal and if that didn't work we'd try Prozac. When I left the room, GHG was asleep on the waiting room floor. He went to bed at 9, up at 7:30 which is fairly normal during the summer (but it sure beats the going to bed at 8 and up at 4 to start the day like he used to).[/SIZE] [SIZE=4][/SIZE] [SIZE=4]Yes, it is a try this and that approach. The therapist is as confused as anyone else on an actual diagnosis. His words to me a while back were, "usually I can blame these types of behavior on parenting and environment, but in this case I can't". GHG will tell you all the things I've tried teaching him and totally go against every one. Last Thursday (because of medication switching) therapist saw GHG with-o a stimulant medication for the first time. He asked, "Is this what you go through every morning from the time he wakes up to the time the medications kick in?" Even though in the past I've told him the behaviors, he was floored at seeing them. GHG did the most "involved" talking while laying on the floor and his feet on the arm of the chair.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4][/SIZE] [SIZE=4]Something I have found that works great at getting confessions is fingerprinting. Last winter we were having lots of "I didn't do it" so I told the kids about police work and fingerprinting to find out who did it. Now all I have to do is get a plastic baggie, place the item in discussion in it and with-i minutes I have someone begging me not to take it in because they did it.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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