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<blockquote data-quote="wakeupcall" data-source="post: 49820" data-attributes="member: 2287"><p>My difficult child was diagnosis at age four with ADHD. About two years later a pediatrician said read this book, "The Bipolar Child" because she thought it might fit. It didn't....at the time. He had the diagnosis then of ADHD and ODD. My difficult child is now almost twelve. Just in the last two months he has been started on Lithium....and omg...he's almost human. Inbetween age four and age eleven, his behavior has fit every single criteria for ODD (and quickly heading for a diagnosis of CD by his psychologist). There is no doubt in my mind whatsoever that he has ODD, but now I wonder if he had EOBD all along, just didn't fit all the criteria till recently. My point is that I think it sometimes takes years for everything to come to light in their behavior. As those years go along most of us have other crisis in our lives that can affect these children, so we think, well....maybe they are reacting to that crisis? It's all so difficult. I guess right now I'm wondering if my son had been diagnosis'd with EOBD as a toddler and he'd been put on a mood stabilizer sooner, maybe we wouldn't have all been through the He** we've all been through. Oh, I'll never say, "He's all better.", but oh my, he's soooooo much better on Lithium. I think I'm going to fall into the category of.....the Lithium works, therefore he must be bipolar. Do others feel like if ___ medication works, then my child must be ___?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wakeupcall, post: 49820, member: 2287"] My difficult child was diagnosis at age four with ADHD. About two years later a pediatrician said read this book, "The Bipolar Child" because she thought it might fit. It didn't....at the time. He had the diagnosis then of ADHD and ODD. My difficult child is now almost twelve. Just in the last two months he has been started on Lithium....and omg...he's almost human. Inbetween age four and age eleven, his behavior has fit every single criteria for ODD (and quickly heading for a diagnosis of CD by his psychologist). There is no doubt in my mind whatsoever that he has ODD, but now I wonder if he had EOBD all along, just didn't fit all the criteria till recently. My point is that I think it sometimes takes years for everything to come to light in their behavior. As those years go along most of us have other crisis in our lives that can affect these children, so we think, well....maybe they are reacting to that crisis? It's all so difficult. I guess right now I'm wondering if my son had been diagnosis'd with EOBD as a toddler and he'd been put on a mood stabilizer sooner, maybe we wouldn't have all been through the He** we've all been through. Oh, I'll never say, "He's all better.", but oh my, he's soooooo much better on Lithium. I think I'm going to fall into the category of.....the Lithium works, therefore he must be bipolar. Do others feel like if ___ medication works, then my child must be ___? [/QUOTE]
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