oppositional defiant disorder

Hi there. I cannot believe I'm even on here typing this out. I have 2 children with-anxiety, ADHD with-ODD. I feel like I'm living in a nightmare every day of my life. My children are almost 8 and almost 10 and this has been going on for YEARS. I feel like I'm slowly coming undone by the chaos...

Posting in this forum because my daughter is almost 6, and heading into a more "mature" level of childhood (ha. ideally). Okay - so she made the elite gymnastics team when she just turned 5 - she's amazing, maybe the best and youngest on the team. Ex let her skip when she "had a belly ache", so...

difficult child's anxiety and therefore behavior, is really ramping up in anticipation of going back to school tomorrow following the winter break. Anyone else? Any ideas of how to deal with this? As of now, he is saying he is NOT going to school. I'm tired of easy child not being able to have a normal life and...

Several months ago, after trying my 10 y.o. daughter (difficult child 1) on Prozac, it was a disaster. Her meltdowns, which were bad, got out of control at home and school. Took her off the Prozac and they didn't stop. Now after having her heavily medicated on Risperdal, Concerta and now Zoloft, she's...

difficult child has an IPod Touch (easy child has one, too). They don't like using the headphone unless they absolutely have to, like if we're in a public place or something like that, but here at the house I don't makes the use them. Probably my mistake. difficult child has his IPod set to loop the same song over and over...

My difficult child 2 had a terrible reaction to Zoloft and it caused something to snap in him. He has always had ODD, but it just got WAY worse since we tried that medication. This horrible reaction caused the psychiatrist to Rx Risperdal, which I detest, but which has helped my difficult child 1 a lot. My problem is, I...

Its only been two months into the school year and my son has refused to work,has beEN Suspended off the bus. BeEN in In School Suspension,aall becauwe of his behavior.Yesterday,I found out that he got into an argumend with-a neighbor kid on the bus,that esculaTED To a fight off the bus.BUt what...

I feel totally defeated by my 13 year old son. He has always been difficult to deal with mentally, but when he was younger I could handle it. The last 2 years have been exhausting. Every day is a battle to get him up and to school. He has been suspended numerous times for disrespecting...

What is the consequences of when u tell your child no and he doesn't take it as an answer.My son got an early b/day gift and I told him that he was not going to get another gift on his birthday.He agreed to it.Its been about a week now,finished the game and now he is begging for another one.I...

How can I tell if my teens sons behavior is normal,a sign of ODD,or other behavior disorder or out of control?He is going to be 16,has special needs and is medically disabled.His behavior is at home,with his sister and little nefews ,me and when he was at school.I am needing help as to knowing...

I just want your opinions. difficult child is diagnosed autistic and adhd (siggy might not be current). Dr thinks there may be some under lying personality disorder and might fit ODD diagnosis but doesn't want to officially label at this time, and I think personality disorders cant be diagnosed until...

My son has ADHD and takes medications for this. He was diagnosed 4 years ago at age 8. He has been through 6 different medications which all have the same effect on him. They work for a month and then he begins to talk about killing himself and detaching from the family. He has problems in school mostly just...

My difficult child just turned 9 in January. She started her rages when she was 5. The first time she had a rage, it scared the day lights out of me! I looked in her eyes and she just wasn't there. That rage lasted 3 hours. Her first doctor was a neuro psychiatric who said she was ADHD and potentially bipolar. I...

Please inform me if I am wrong here about the age and tantrums. I opened the car door not knowing he had a bag of popcorn leaning against it and the Popcorn fell on the floor spilling out most of it. He yelled at me that he told me to wait but I honestly did not hear him say that or anything...

So Sprite is getting all A's, no worries there. But Knight has 2 D's...one in Science and one in Band. He says both cases are due to teachers not giving him makeup worksheets/tests from when he was suspended or without his ipad. "So it's their fault!" I tried to explain to him that makeup...

I'll try and keep this fairly concise. (well I tried but it's a book, I'm hoping someone with take the time to read it :) I have four sons, one of them is a challenge, very more difficult than the other three. My difficult child started becoming difficult at about age 3. He wasn't a difficult baby, and he...

My difficult child 2 is NOT in a good place right now. His medications aren't helping at all, so we're trying to get a 2nd opinion with-another psychiatrist about what our alternatives might be. Also, our therapist gave us the name and number of a neuropsychologist. I called them and the intake person would NOT even do an...

Hi! I am new here...have just read around the forums on a few threads and already know this is a place I need to be. I am a mother of four...have had all four of my kids on the spectrum to some degree, but my youngest, who just turned 12, is affected the worst. I had him when I was almost 40...

I am literally sick to my stomach right now! We have a meeting on Monday to go over the 3 yr re-evaluation results. I requested a copy of the evaluation report today so I would have the weekend to look it over. If you remember from my other posts - I requested he be evaluated in many areas - they...

Hi, I just joined this forum out of final desperation and am really happy to find it and hope it helps. Here is our story... My husband and I adopted a 4 year old (now 7). 2 months after he was placed in our home we got pregnant (he is now 22mo). When we chose to adopt we knew he had...