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Do you consider your child to be mentally ill?
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<blockquote data-quote="CrazyinVA" data-source="post: 296748" data-attributes="member: 1157"><p>I will say that this is why I fought to have my Youngest's IEP classification changed to "Other Health Impaired" (as the CABF recommends, by the way) rather than ED. Bipolar is a biologically-based mental illness, it's not an "emotional" problem. Her mood swings and anxiety had physical reasons behind them; the "ED" label screamed "behavior problem" and the teachers were less apt to deal with her appropriately.</p><p></p><p>I never had much issue with the term mentally ill... but I do think there's a huge stigma attached to it. I can tell you that neither of my children considers themselves mentally ill. It sounds too .. final. Perhaps it's simply not easy child these days.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CrazyinVA, post: 296748, member: 1157"] I will say that this is why I fought to have my Youngest's IEP classification changed to "Other Health Impaired" (as the CABF recommends, by the way) rather than ED. Bipolar is a biologically-based mental illness, it's not an "emotional" problem. Her mood swings and anxiety had physical reasons behind them; the "ED" label screamed "behavior problem" and the teachers were less apt to deal with her appropriately. I never had much issue with the term mentally ill... but I do think there's a huge stigma attached to it. I can tell you that neither of my children considers themselves mentally ill. It sounds too .. final. Perhaps it's simply not easy child these days. [/QUOTE]
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