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difficult child 2 is now the problem child . . . . . & "My" difficult child 1 is back
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<blockquote data-quote="TeDo" data-source="post: 477060" data-attributes="member: 15799"><p>Insane, thanks for reminding me but I am very aware of what puberty can do. Let me explain how the medication issues came to be in the first place. In January (9 months ago), difficult child 1 was diagnosed Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). The psychiatrist at the time recommended he be put on Risperdal because "it has a great track record of helping kids with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) with the anxiety". difficult child 1 wasn't having any noticeable anxiety issues even at school but I listened to him (not knowing better) and went along with it thinking it must be a preventative measure or something. Well, within 3 months of raising and lowering the dose, difficult child 1 became very aggressive and destructive. He was sent home from school literally every day within the first 3 hours of school. I finally called the psychiatrist and we stopped the Risperdal immediately. Within a week, the aggressiveness was gone but school continued to deny the Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) diagnosis and treated him unfairly so he became severely depressed. The psychiatrist put difficult child 1 on Prozac to help with the depression. This time, over the period of 5 months difficult child 1 became even more defiant, aggressive, and physically violent until he ended up in the psychiatric hospital.</p><p></p><p>What we are seeing now with difficult child 1 is the way he normally is. difficult child 2 however, isn't on any medications and I know it is all Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) and puberty as well as a very rough, almost neglectful 9 months where our whole world revolved around difficult child 1's behaviors that were caused by the medications. Now that difficult child 1 is "back", difficult child 2 is struggling with the change and not remembering what it was like before the medications and the insecurity he's always had as well as the hormone storm caused by puberty.</p><p></p><p>I know what's going on but I'm just feeling overwhelmed. At least difficult child 1's behaviors were explainable and easily (once I realized what was going on) "cured". I don't have any experience in puberty much less puberty + Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) + everything else mixed in.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TeDo, post: 477060, member: 15799"] Insane, thanks for reminding me but I am very aware of what puberty can do. Let me explain how the medication issues came to be in the first place. In January (9 months ago), difficult child 1 was diagnosed Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). The psychiatrist at the time recommended he be put on Risperdal because "it has a great track record of helping kids with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) with the anxiety". difficult child 1 wasn't having any noticeable anxiety issues even at school but I listened to him (not knowing better) and went along with it thinking it must be a preventative measure or something. Well, within 3 months of raising and lowering the dose, difficult child 1 became very aggressive and destructive. He was sent home from school literally every day within the first 3 hours of school. I finally called the psychiatrist and we stopped the Risperdal immediately. Within a week, the aggressiveness was gone but school continued to deny the Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) diagnosis and treated him unfairly so he became severely depressed. The psychiatrist put difficult child 1 on Prozac to help with the depression. This time, over the period of 5 months difficult child 1 became even more defiant, aggressive, and physically violent until he ended up in the psychiatric hospital. What we are seeing now with difficult child 1 is the way he normally is. difficult child 2 however, isn't on any medications and I know it is all Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) and puberty as well as a very rough, almost neglectful 9 months where our whole world revolved around difficult child 1's behaviors that were caused by the medications. Now that difficult child 1 is "back", difficult child 2 is struggling with the change and not remembering what it was like before the medications and the insecurity he's always had as well as the hormone storm caused by puberty. I know what's going on but I'm just feeling overwhelmed. At least difficult child 1's behaviors were explainable and easily (once I realized what was going on) "cured". I don't have any experience in puberty much less puberty + Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) + everything else mixed in. [/QUOTE]
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