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<blockquote data-quote="Kedgie" data-source="post: 426657" data-attributes="member: 11915"><p>Thank you both for replying. It really means a lot to me. My son is 9 years old. He has been diagnosed with many things over the years such as ADHD, Non-verbal Learning Disorder, Anxiety, Asperger's, Sensory Integration Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder...maybe a few others that I am forgetting. He has had school testing twice, two private neuro-psychiatric evaluations, has seen a behavioral specialist, an anxiety specialist, has gone to two separate Occupational Therapist (OT)'s...one for a feeding group when he was younger and one last Spring for individual work. </p><p> </p><p>I think what is so hard is that he seems to have bits and pieces of so many different disorders but sometmes not enough to meet the full criteria for a diagnosis. I definately think he has ADHD, with the Emotional Dysregulation piece that I was reading about on this website. He also has either some social anxiety or some Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) element....I don't think it is Asperger's but maybe a bit of the NLD stuff....or maybe the anxiety is part of the ADHD...I can't figue it out and neither can the numerous professionals I have been to. </p><p> </p><p>His PCP is going to start him on a small dose of Ritalin, maybe tomorrow. I was resistant to trying medications because he already takes so much for his asthma that I didn't want to put more medication into him especially becasue he doesn't eat one bit of nutritional food. But, my husband & I are at our wits end and my 4 yo is suffering now too bc of all the stress and chaos plus my difficult child is now acting out at baseball and talking back a little to coaches so I feel like now that it is not just the family seeing the oppositional stuff.. we have to do something more.</p><p> </p><p>The other piece is that he sems to cycle. There are actually weeks at a time where he is sort of manageable and I sometimes think...."what was I freaking out about? I can do this." and then....Mr. Hyde returns. Bipolar Disorder runs on both my Mom and Dad's sides of the family so I am a bit scared about that too. Sorry for rambling on....it is helpful, though. Thank you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kedgie, post: 426657, member: 11915"] Thank you both for replying. It really means a lot to me. My son is 9 years old. He has been diagnosed with many things over the years such as ADHD, Non-verbal Learning Disorder, Anxiety, Asperger's, Sensory Integration Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder...maybe a few others that I am forgetting. He has had school testing twice, two private neuro-psychiatric evaluations, has seen a behavioral specialist, an anxiety specialist, has gone to two separate Occupational Therapist (OT)'s...one for a feeding group when he was younger and one last Spring for individual work. I think what is so hard is that he seems to have bits and pieces of so many different disorders but sometmes not enough to meet the full criteria for a diagnosis. I definately think he has ADHD, with the Emotional Dysregulation piece that I was reading about on this website. He also has either some social anxiety or some Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) element....I don't think it is Asperger's but maybe a bit of the NLD stuff....or maybe the anxiety is part of the ADHD...I can't figue it out and neither can the numerous professionals I have been to. His PCP is going to start him on a small dose of Ritalin, maybe tomorrow. I was resistant to trying medications because he already takes so much for his asthma that I didn't want to put more medication into him especially becasue he doesn't eat one bit of nutritional food. But, my husband & I are at our wits end and my 4 yo is suffering now too bc of all the stress and chaos plus my difficult child is now acting out at baseball and talking back a little to coaches so I feel like now that it is not just the family seeing the oppositional stuff.. we have to do something more. The other piece is that he sems to cycle. There are actually weeks at a time where he is sort of manageable and I sometimes think...."what was I freaking out about? I can do this." and then....Mr. Hyde returns. Bipolar Disorder runs on both my Mom and Dad's sides of the family so I am a bit scared about that too. Sorry for rambling on....it is helpful, though. Thank you. [/QUOTE]
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