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<blockquote data-quote="gcvmom" data-source="post: 321188" data-attributes="member: 3444"><p>I understand (reread your edited post) about therapy being needed to address an earlier trauma that resulted in maladaptive behaviors. But sometimes that trauma can trigger a cascade of changes in the brain that cannot be fixed through therapy. Haven't there been studies that have shown there are sometimes permanent changes to the brain as the result of an extreme stressor/traumatic event? </p><p> </p><p>It's been suggested that difficult child 2's bipolar was pushed into existence because of his Sydenham's episode. But there were signs of something being amiss earlier than that. Could be the potential was there, but the strep infection is what pushed him over the proverbial edge and caused some changes in his brain chemistry.</p><p> </p><p>I can't see husband having suffered the same kind of emotional traumas as his sister who is 5 years older. He would have been 9 and at a different developmental stage. But then I'm not privy to what really happened then.</p><p> </p><p>And then there's my own FOO. My dad had horrible emotional traumas as a child bumped from foster home to foster home most of his life and living in abusive environments. But there are familial mental health issues going back generations, even to his father's mother (who I'll bet was bipolar, or possibly schizoaffective based on stories of her behaviors that I've heard). And his own bio mom who was alcoholic, but not in the picture from the time he was 2 years old. You wonder which came first? The abuse or the mental illness? </p><p> </p><p>And then I look at difficult child 1, whose anxiety is just something he seems to have been born with (although I have to wonder if his exposure in the NICU to heavy sedation medications -- he was in a medically-induced coma for two weeks -- did anything to change him or precipitate anything).</p><p> </p><p>I guess medications can only address so much, and if you still have dysfunctional coping mechanisms, then that's where therapy can fill in the gaps and try to turn things around to a healthier way of living. I've been down that path myself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gcvmom, post: 321188, member: 3444"] I understand (reread your edited post) about therapy being needed to address an earlier trauma that resulted in maladaptive behaviors. But sometimes that trauma can trigger a cascade of changes in the brain that cannot be fixed through therapy. Haven't there been studies that have shown there are sometimes permanent changes to the brain as the result of an extreme stressor/traumatic event? It's been suggested that difficult child 2's bipolar was pushed into existence because of his Sydenham's episode. But there were signs of something being amiss earlier than that. Could be the potential was there, but the strep infection is what pushed him over the proverbial edge and caused some changes in his brain chemistry. I can't see husband having suffered the same kind of emotional traumas as his sister who is 5 years older. He would have been 9 and at a different developmental stage. But then I'm not privy to what really happened then. And then there's my own FOO. My dad had horrible emotional traumas as a child bumped from foster home to foster home most of his life and living in abusive environments. But there are familial mental health issues going back generations, even to his father's mother (who I'll bet was bipolar, or possibly schizoaffective based on stories of her behaviors that I've heard). And his own bio mom who was alcoholic, but not in the picture from the time he was 2 years old. You wonder which came first? The abuse or the mental illness? And then I look at difficult child 1, whose anxiety is just something he seems to have been born with (although I have to wonder if his exposure in the NICU to heavy sedation medications -- he was in a medically-induced coma for two weeks -- did anything to change him or precipitate anything). I guess medications can only address so much, and if you still have dysfunctional coping mechanisms, then that's where therapy can fill in the gaps and try to turn things around to a healthier way of living. I've been down that path myself. [/QUOTE]
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