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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: 511829" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Absolutely agree with you.</p><p>medications are the LAST resort, not the first.</p><p>And you don't use medications to try to figure out what the diagnosis is...!</p><p></p><p>It sounds to me like the first problem is to figure out what the real problem is.</p><p>ODD is a "strange" diagnosis... most dxes have therapies, interventions, accommodations and/or medications that FIT the diagnosis and that actually help.</p><p>ODD... describes a behavior problem. And that is as far as the diagnosis goes.</p><p></p><p>You don't list what country you are in... so I'm assuming USA? If so, you might want to look into a neuropsychologist evaluation... a really comprehensive look at everything. I don't know what all the possibilities are... but I do know that lots of kids with ODD for a diagnosis... are something else instead (ours was, too... in our case, it was multiple less-serious dxes, but taken together were driving hin crazy) neuropsychologist is enough down a different track that it won't be just a simple switch of psychiatrists...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 511829, member: 11791"] Absolutely agree with you. medications are the LAST resort, not the first. And you don't use medications to try to figure out what the diagnosis is...! It sounds to me like the first problem is to figure out what the real problem is. ODD is a "strange" diagnosis... most dxes have therapies, interventions, accommodations and/or medications that FIT the diagnosis and that actually help. ODD... describes a behavior problem. And that is as far as the diagnosis goes. You don't list what country you are in... so I'm assuming USA? If so, you might want to look into a neuropsychologist evaluation... a really comprehensive look at everything. I don't know what all the possibilities are... but I do know that lots of kids with ODD for a diagnosis... are something else instead (ours was, too... in our case, it was multiple less-serious dxes, but taken together were driving hin crazy) neuropsychologist is enough down a different track that it won't be just a simple switch of psychiatrists... [/QUOTE]
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