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<blockquote data-quote="helpangel" data-source="post: 262093" data-attributes="member: 7170"><p>I think the reason your ? went unanswered was that because even 2 kids in the same family with the same diagnosis's, are still individuals having difficulties that are solely there own. For example both my girls have bipolar - one has been physically aggresive yet rarely cries, the other rarely aggressive but cries very often.</p><p></p><p>Not sure if I can help or not but Angel was diagnosis with both adHd & ODD when she was 6yo, also bipolar diagnosis at that age. I guess my first ? would be who made the diagnosis was it a psychiatrist, pediatrician, neurologist etc? Often an ODD diagnosis means that the child just wasn't being very co operative the day the doctor saw them; with Angel I think the criteria they diagnosis'd her ODD would have to also qualify every 2yo who ever stomped their foot and said "NO" when told to do something they didn't want to do. So before I would take the ODD diagnosis to heart a couple quick ?'s I would ask myself </p><p></p><p>1) Is the child being openly defiant or just testing boundaries with authority figures? Is it all the time or some of the time?</p><p></p><p>2) Are they defying all authority figures? or just parents? or just school?</p><p></p><p>3) Do you suspect there could be another diagnosis besides adHd that could be contributing to this? The reason I ask is with Angel I always considered the ODD & adHd as just symptoms of the bipolar that we use to measure wether we got the medications right or not.</p><p></p><p>It seems sometimes with kids that diagnosis's tend to change even when working with the same doctor; actually it makes sense because kids are constantly growing & changing so why wouldn't their diagnosis's? They can master skills that make a diagnosis no longer apply. I've also noticed thru the years that you could take a kid with the same list of symptoms to 5 doctors and you would be very lucky to get 3 of them to diagnosis the exact same thing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="helpangel, post: 262093, member: 7170"] I think the reason your ? went unanswered was that because even 2 kids in the same family with the same diagnosis's, are still individuals having difficulties that are solely there own. For example both my girls have bipolar - one has been physically aggresive yet rarely cries, the other rarely aggressive but cries very often. Not sure if I can help or not but Angel was diagnosis with both adHd & ODD when she was 6yo, also bipolar diagnosis at that age. I guess my first ? would be who made the diagnosis was it a psychiatrist, pediatrician, neurologist etc? Often an ODD diagnosis means that the child just wasn't being very co operative the day the doctor saw them; with Angel I think the criteria they diagnosis'd her ODD would have to also qualify every 2yo who ever stomped their foot and said "NO" when told to do something they didn't want to do. So before I would take the ODD diagnosis to heart a couple quick ?'s I would ask myself 1) Is the child being openly defiant or just testing boundaries with authority figures? Is it all the time or some of the time? 2) Are they defying all authority figures? or just parents? or just school? 3) Do you suspect there could be another diagnosis besides adHd that could be contributing to this? The reason I ask is with Angel I always considered the ODD & adHd as just symptoms of the bipolar that we use to measure wether we got the medications right or not. It seems sometimes with kids that diagnosis's tend to change even when working with the same doctor; actually it makes sense because kids are constantly growing & changing so why wouldn't their diagnosis's? They can master skills that make a diagnosis no longer apply. I've also noticed thru the years that you could take a kid with the same list of symptoms to 5 doctors and you would be very lucky to get 3 of them to diagnosis the exact same thing. [/QUOTE]
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