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8 yo, adhd/dmdd/odd, and only getting worse.
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<blockquote data-quote="AlanaGW" data-source="post: 708862" data-attributes="member: 21529"><p>Thank you every one for your replies! He is currently not on any medication at all right now, occasionally he'll take vitamins in the morning but we ran out a while back and I hadn't gotten more because of articles I've read stating your body doesn't even absorb them. We've been working on him solely by intervention and redirection tactics I guess. Lot's and lot's of therapy and support. I would like to mention, his behavior started to escalate more rapidly after our last family therapy appointment, where I finally had to reveal to him how his father passed away and what suicide meant. I could tell he couldn't process it, but since then he has been more self harming and his own suicide threats and self harm attempts seem to have escalated. He doesn't talk about his dad and that's a hard topic for him to participate in. His father was never formally diagnosed with a mood disorder because he refused to get help so that makes it harder to pin point what is causing my son's mental health to decline but we all agree it has to be a least a little bit based on genetics. I had depression in high school but took my medication and shortly after didn't really need it anymore. I spoke with his therapist last night about possible emergency intervention and hospitalization. We both agreed, that with all the documentation sent to the medication therapist they will have a bit of a handle on what they think he needs and we're going to give it a try. If he continues to self harm and escalate to physical violence after that hospitalization is our next option. It's hard, because he's calm at home, and I just know with how his mind works he's going to see it as we're abandoning him if it comes to that. But, we'll address how to sit down and talk with him about it if the time comes. I'm so sad that it has gotten this bad.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AlanaGW, post: 708862, member: 21529"] Thank you every one for your replies! He is currently not on any medication at all right now, occasionally he'll take vitamins in the morning but we ran out a while back and I hadn't gotten more because of articles I've read stating your body doesn't even absorb them. We've been working on him solely by intervention and redirection tactics I guess. Lot's and lot's of therapy and support. I would like to mention, his behavior started to escalate more rapidly after our last family therapy appointment, where I finally had to reveal to him how his father passed away and what suicide meant. I could tell he couldn't process it, but since then he has been more self harming and his own suicide threats and self harm attempts seem to have escalated. He doesn't talk about his dad and that's a hard topic for him to participate in. His father was never formally diagnosed with a mood disorder because he refused to get help so that makes it harder to pin point what is causing my son's mental health to decline but we all agree it has to be a least a little bit based on genetics. I had depression in high school but took my medication and shortly after didn't really need it anymore. I spoke with his therapist last night about possible emergency intervention and hospitalization. We both agreed, that with all the documentation sent to the medication therapist they will have a bit of a handle on what they think he needs and we're going to give it a try. If he continues to self harm and escalate to physical violence after that hospitalization is our next option. It's hard, because he's calm at home, and I just know with how his mind works he's going to see it as we're abandoning him if it comes to that. But, we'll address how to sit down and talk with him about it if the time comes. I'm so sad that it has gotten this bad. [/QUOTE]
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