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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 182993" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>It is complicated- it took me 2 years to get the school to acknowledge that it wasn't just a defiance/discipline problem. I'm going to talk to the "new" intern psychiatrist about this stuff, too.</p><p></p><p>But, it gives me something to think about- I noticed your son is adopted and someone mentioned the possibility of Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD). My son isn't adopted and he's had a pretty secure life with me, albeit he had to go to day care since being a couple of mos old. But, the issue of his father never being in his life- moreso that difficult child knows now that his father CHOSE to never be in his life- really changed him. That was the BIG trigger. I'm not sure how much is chemical-related (as in - they need the medications to keep chemicals balanced in the brain) and how much is psychological, that cognitive therapy can help. In my son's case, he didn't exhibit erratic behavior until he learned these things but he was also at the age of puberty onset. (That isn't to imply that he was a saint before that- he just wasn't erratic).</p><p></p><p>It seems to me that the biggest part of this battle is peeling back those layers and finding out the real problem(s). I'm not so sure that the solution (or treatment) is that difficult, if we're sure we found the correct "issue" to treat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 182993, member: 3699"] It is complicated- it took me 2 years to get the school to acknowledge that it wasn't just a defiance/discipline problem. I'm going to talk to the "new" intern psychiatrist about this stuff, too. But, it gives me something to think about- I noticed your son is adopted and someone mentioned the possibility of Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD). My son isn't adopted and he's had a pretty secure life with me, albeit he had to go to day care since being a couple of mos old. But, the issue of his father never being in his life- moreso that difficult child knows now that his father CHOSE to never be in his life- really changed him. That was the BIG trigger. I'm not sure how much is chemical-related (as in - they need the medications to keep chemicals balanced in the brain) and how much is psychological, that cognitive therapy can help. In my son's case, he didn't exhibit erratic behavior until he learned these things but he was also at the age of puberty onset. (That isn't to imply that he was a saint before that- he just wasn't erratic). It seems to me that the biggest part of this battle is peeling back those layers and finding out the real problem(s). I'm not so sure that the solution (or treatment) is that difficult, if we're sure we found the correct "issue" to treat. [/QUOTE]
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