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<blockquote data-quote="flutterbee" data-source="post: 73153"><p>ODD does not usually stand alone; it's more of a basket of symptoms than a diagnosis. It can and does stand as an individual diagnosis, but other things need to be ruled out first as other disorders can cause behaviors that mimic ODD.</p><p></p><p>There could be many reasons for the behavior you're seeing besides ODD: a few that come to mind are anxiety, pervasive development disorder (autism spectrum), depression, bipolar...the list goes on. We can't diagnosis here, of course, but can point you in the right direction. And that would be that you need to have your son evaluated by a developmental pediatrician, neuropsychologist or a multi-evaluation team (consists of several specialties).</p><p></p><p>If my husband were against it, it wouldn't stop me. No one gets between me and my kids. Period. That probably sounds harsh and some will tell you to educate your husband and help him to understand...which you should do. But, I personally wouldn't wait for him to get on board before proceeding. Your son's been having these behaviors/symptoms since the age of 18 months. You've waited long enough. While you're waiting for you husband to make peace with it, you're son is suffering and struggling. And being against medications? Would he deny your child insulin if he were diabetic? medications are not called for in every case, but for some they are a necessity. It's always boggled me how some can be so arbitrarily against medications when they don't even know what's going on with their child. I can understand it to a point, but once you have a diagnosis it's different. </p><p></p><p>I was against medications for my daughter simply because no one could give us a definitive diagnosis and I wasn't going to simply medicate symptoms that might make it harder to see what was really going on with her. It was a fight, too. It seemed everyone wanted to medicate her and do the let's see what happens game. Once we had a definitive diagnosis (as definitive as you can get), I was completely comfortable going the medication route.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="flutterbee, post: 73153"] ODD does not usually stand alone; it's more of a basket of symptoms than a diagnosis. It can and does stand as an individual diagnosis, but other things need to be ruled out first as other disorders can cause behaviors that mimic ODD. There could be many reasons for the behavior you're seeing besides ODD: a few that come to mind are anxiety, pervasive development disorder (autism spectrum), depression, bipolar...the list goes on. We can't diagnosis here, of course, but can point you in the right direction. And that would be that you need to have your son evaluated by a developmental pediatrician, neuropsychologist or a multi-evaluation team (consists of several specialties). If my husband were against it, it wouldn't stop me. No one gets between me and my kids. Period. That probably sounds harsh and some will tell you to educate your husband and help him to understand...which you should do. But, I personally wouldn't wait for him to get on board before proceeding. Your son's been having these behaviors/symptoms since the age of 18 months. You've waited long enough. While you're waiting for you husband to make peace with it, you're son is suffering and struggling. And being against medications? Would he deny your child insulin if he were diabetic? medications are not called for in every case, but for some they are a necessity. It's always boggled me how some can be so arbitrarily against medications when they don't even know what's going on with their child. I can understand it to a point, but once you have a diagnosis it's different. I was against medications for my daughter simply because no one could give us a definitive diagnosis and I wasn't going to simply medicate symptoms that might make it harder to see what was really going on with her. It was a fight, too. It seemed everyone wanted to medicate her and do the let's see what happens game. Once we had a definitive diagnosis (as definitive as you can get), I was completely comfortable going the medication route. [/QUOTE]
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