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Hi I am new and need help, my wife and I are at our wits end
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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 511823" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Jim - I know there are long term risks of many of these medications. But my son would be dead if it wasn't for the medications. I'll take the risk of long-term effects, just to have a hope of there being a "long-term" anything... but that's JMO.</p><p></p><p>Have you ever come across the book The Explosive Child? Lots of us around here find it useful... for me, the biggest single eye opener was a very simple statement that goes against what most people believe... and yet, when we put the statement to the test, it is amazing how accurate it is. He says "Kids do well <em>if they can</em>." Note: NOT "if they want to". And that shift of percepting changes how we see the situation, opens up opportunities to act and react differently. This is NOT a medications-based book at all - completely an approach to working with difficult kids, but not typical "behavior chart" stuff.</p><p></p><p>Sorry to repeat the question, but... has he ever had a comprehensive evaluation? plus Occupational Therapist (OT)? plus Speech Language Pathologist (SLP)? Who did the CD diagnosis... I almost got the impression that was given by a psychiatrist who was specifically looking for personality disorders... was anything else thoroughly tested for?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 511823, member: 11791"] Jim - I know there are long term risks of many of these medications. But my son would be dead if it wasn't for the medications. I'll take the risk of long-term effects, just to have a hope of there being a "long-term" anything... but that's JMO. Have you ever come across the book The Explosive Child? Lots of us around here find it useful... for me, the biggest single eye opener was a very simple statement that goes against what most people believe... and yet, when we put the statement to the test, it is amazing how accurate it is. He says "Kids do well [I]if they can[/I]." Note: NOT "if they want to". And that shift of percepting changes how we see the situation, opens up opportunities to act and react differently. This is NOT a medications-based book at all - completely an approach to working with difficult kids, but not typical "behavior chart" stuff. Sorry to repeat the question, but... has he ever had a comprehensive evaluation? plus Occupational Therapist (OT)? plus Speech Language Pathologist (SLP)? Who did the CD diagnosis... I almost got the impression that was given by a psychiatrist who was specifically looking for personality disorders... was anything else thoroughly tested for? [/QUOTE]
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