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<blockquote data-quote="HMBgal" data-source="post: 701198" data-attributes="member: 13260"><p>My grandson has many of the same characteristics as your Oliver. It sounds like he is having a really rough time and I'm sorry for all of you. We, too, got onto the Ross Greene stuff early on and I bought the school package for his school. Whether any of them other than his teacher and the principal spoke to him in the appropriate way is doubtful, but we tried. And it did help all of us to shift our thinking around from "he's being really naughty, rude, mean..." or whatever we were seeing at the moment, we dug a little deeper and always had the assumption that if he could do better, he would. We slowly started using the techniques in the Explosive Child book that made sense to use, according to his age. There are things put in place at school that has helped, and maturity has really helped. The ODD label hasn't been very helpful for us (and you'll see many people say that it hasn't helped them, either). Our grandson lacked the meanness that is often described. What he does fit is ADHD, Anxiety Disorder, and the last piece, that something that didn't quite fit anywhere else is DMDD--Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder. This fit the irritability we always saw, the quick-fire temper, etc. It's a new diagnosis in the DSM. As for treament? We have him on Intuniv and a low dose of abilify and it has given us a little breathing space, but none of these kids is alike. And they have a growth spurt and it all changes. Or they change schools and it all changes. It's a moving target, for sure. He just changed schools and it feels like we are starting all over again educating the teacher, principal, office staff, etc. This type of disability is the sweet precious kind that make people feel all warm and fuzzy. It's challenging and often misread as other things.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HMBgal, post: 701198, member: 13260"] My grandson has many of the same characteristics as your Oliver. It sounds like he is having a really rough time and I'm sorry for all of you. We, too, got onto the Ross Greene stuff early on and I bought the school package for his school. Whether any of them other than his teacher and the principal spoke to him in the appropriate way is doubtful, but we tried. And it did help all of us to shift our thinking around from "he's being really naughty, rude, mean..." or whatever we were seeing at the moment, we dug a little deeper and always had the assumption that if he could do better, he would. We slowly started using the techniques in the Explosive Child book that made sense to use, according to his age. There are things put in place at school that has helped, and maturity has really helped. The ODD label hasn't been very helpful for us (and you'll see many people say that it hasn't helped them, either). Our grandson lacked the meanness that is often described. What he does fit is ADHD, Anxiety Disorder, and the last piece, that something that didn't quite fit anywhere else is DMDD--Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder. This fit the irritability we always saw, the quick-fire temper, etc. It's a new diagnosis in the DSM. As for treament? We have him on Intuniv and a low dose of abilify and it has given us a little breathing space, but none of these kids is alike. And they have a growth spurt and it all changes. Or they change schools and it all changes. It's a moving target, for sure. He just changed schools and it feels like we are starting all over again educating the teacher, principal, office staff, etc. This type of disability is the sweet precious kind that make people feel all warm and fuzzy. It's challenging and often misread as other things. [/QUOTE]
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