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concerned and worried about difficult child 2... Hoping for suggestions.
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<blockquote data-quote="HaoZi" data-source="post: 451578"><p>Thanks Insane. We have tried those, one of her IEP goals is to feel good about herself in other ways than "smart" and "good artist" to expand her self-esteem. She focuses on the negative side of being quirky/weird/unique/eccentric instead of the positive side. Having been on both sides of it myself I try to point out the good things about being different, but knowing it and applying it to emotions in the moment you're being ousted (or feeling ousted even if you're not) is a horse of a different color. She is still heavily ruled by emotion, that part of her brain seems to be lagging behind quite a bit, she reacts before thinking a higher percentage of the time than her peers. </p><p></p><p>When her medication combo is working it helps and the thinking part can get through to the emotion part more, it just seems to need adjusting so much. Not sure if that's the BiPolar (BP) cycling, her growth, her tolerance to a medication, some combination of these and other factors. She'll be all right for a while, then spiral, then we adjust by trial and error until she's all right again. Rinse and repeat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HaoZi, post: 451578"] Thanks Insane. We have tried those, one of her IEP goals is to feel good about herself in other ways than "smart" and "good artist" to expand her self-esteem. She focuses on the negative side of being quirky/weird/unique/eccentric instead of the positive side. Having been on both sides of it myself I try to point out the good things about being different, but knowing it and applying it to emotions in the moment you're being ousted (or feeling ousted even if you're not) is a horse of a different color. She is still heavily ruled by emotion, that part of her brain seems to be lagging behind quite a bit, she reacts before thinking a higher percentage of the time than her peers. When her medication combo is working it helps and the thinking part can get through to the emotion part more, it just seems to need adjusting so much. Not sure if that's the BiPolar (BP) cycling, her growth, her tolerance to a medication, some combination of these and other factors. She'll be all right for a while, then spiral, then we adjust by trial and error until she's all right again. Rinse and repeat. [/QUOTE]
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