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  1. TerryJ2

    difficult child trying Imiprimene

    Hi all, we visited the psychiatrist today. We are trying Imiprimene, which I'd wanted b4 we wasted our time (and difficult child's health) on Prozac and Zoloft, but you know how you have to jump through hoops. I hope this works. We have to do a blood draw in 6 wks. It also helps with-bedwetting and is...
  2. I

    medications for anxiety for 8yr old? *UPDATE*

    Well, my difficult child had his psychiatry appointment. yesterday. He and I both feel that maybe since NONE of the medications he's tried for ADHD have been well tolerated (Concerta, Adderral, Straterra, the patch, and Straterra again, in that order), that maybe we're treating the wrong thing. So, we're now looking at...
  3. K

    psychiatrist / new medications today

    I do not like difficult child's psychiatrist. Never listens. Talks real quick and gives him a new drug and shoots him out the door. All within 10 minutes. After therapist said Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and ADHD and we discussed this and decided to treat the anxiety first, I called Friday to make an appointment. Today was the...
  4. klmno

    another medication question

    HAs anyone here had success with adding an anti-depressant to a mood stabilizer (the issue is cycling- not seizures)? Is it very common? TIA
  5. Jan

    I am new here...

    I have son who was diagnosed with ADHD in 2004 at the age of 7 years old by a clinical psychologist that specializes in ADHD/ADD. And the world wind was just getting started. After the diagnosis, I took my son to his peditrician and he was placed on medication to control his ADHD symptoms, and...
  6. G

    HI all...New here

    Hello, I am here with difficult child who is soon to be 6. He has diagnosis' of Early Onset Bi-Polar (EOBP), ADHD, ODD, sensory processing disorder (SPD), Separation Anxiety, and celiac disease. He will choose to not eat for days, and literally starve himself. He has had a feeding tube until this last August and we are praying to keep it out. difficult child is...
  7. N

    difficult child is funny when he describes things

    He started Focalin XR 15 mg this past weekend. I had to switch him because Adderall just made him mean, moody, aggressive. He would be super emotional and agitated. I told his psychiatrist that Adderall was just not helping him and that we needed to change. He was hesitant to start him on an XR...
  8. gcvmom

    difficult child 1 becoming more hostile

    We've been having a lot of problems with difficult child 1's behavior the past few months. He provokes his sibs verbally and physically (name calling, poking, spitting, threatening to hit, etc.) and then when they react he gets violent. He is argumentative with both husband and I and gets confrontational and...
  9. C

    Don't know what to do anymore

    Haven't been on this board for over a year. Nothing much have changed. our 13 years old has gotten so big in size and has been always trying to resolve issues by physical aggression. And dad is losing it and they got into a fight this afternoon. its not right for an adult to lose it with his...
  10. C

    Therapists for asperger tween

    My 11 years old asperger son is getting more and more aggressive lately. He is only seen by his psychiatrist once a month. He is on adderall XR 20mg and zoloft 50mg. I totally understand challenging authority figure, manipulating, unremorseful is part of the asperger. But as parent we have...
  11. N

    New member, frustrated

    Hi, I'm new here. I just found out that my 14 year old son has Conduct Disorder. He lies, steals, has sexually molested his adopted brother at his Dad's house (he lives with Dad), is defiant, doesn't follow rules, all of these things are part of the disorder. He just started taking the drug...
  12. H

    Token Economy System

    Has anyone heard of or tried this? It was suggested to me at the ER Friday night and I'm hoping for some input or ideas. At first I laughed and told her it was yet another glorified "sticker chart" but after researching it a bit, I guess it's used quite often in psychiatric and/or correctional...
  13. B

    In need of help and new to the board....

    Let me say like the rest did that I'm happy to have found this site! Reading through alot of these comments has opened my eyes ALOT! Here's my situation.... I have an 7 almost 8 yr old difficult child.. He's always been a difficult child only 2 hours old and was pushing himself away from me in the hospital lol...
  14. H

    Finally broke and called an ambulance last night

    difficult child 3 went into typical rage again last night and I finally had enough and called for an ambulance. He had been out playing with friends and suddenly called me from a cell phone (??!!) to ask for another 1/2 hour to play. I asked where cell phone came from he said "an older boy". That didn't...
  15. TiredSoul

    How to teach difficult child to deal with frustration, disappointment, boredom, etc?

    If we manage difficult child’s environment so much as to not allow any disappointing moments or any frustration then we have a mostly content child and no blowups. That would mean not telling him no, not telling him to do anything he doesn’t want to do, buying him poker chips for his online game when he...
  16. S

    Going insane in Florida!!!

    I am new to this site and am not really sure what to do with my 6 year old son. He is ADHD and has ODD. I am at my wits end. I had recently had him on Adderall. Thats where everything went down hill. Actually, since I started him on the medications it has been going down hill. His ODD didnt start...
  17. V

    New

    how do i join a group? Im new to all this and has no idea on where to start. thanks
  18. P

    update

    I had to call the police on difficult child. He slaped my 4 year old in the face. I don't know what else to do with him. Please pray that I will have to strength to fight this fight with him.
  19. B

    ADHD... How do you deal?

    My almost 6 year old step son was diagnosed with ADHD at 4, (he lives with us full time and has since he was about 18 months old.) we went to the dr to aske them about his behavior because we knew his mother was also adhd. we put him on the lowest dose possible of focalin i was literally taking...
  20. I

    Soon to be 6 yo with ADHD/ODD

    I am at my wits end with my son, he has to worst mouth I have ever heard on a child of his age. He does not swear yet, but scream at me at the top of his lungs, refuses to do anything I ask of him, he has been grounded from tv and outside with friends for a week, because each day just gets...
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