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<blockquote data-quote="smallworld" data-source="post: 264992" data-attributes="member: 2423"><p>Heather, in my humble opinion, you're minimzing the importance of his not being on the right medications. Even when kids with bipolar disorder <strong>know</strong> right from wrong, many of them cannot control their emotions until their medications help reduce the cycling.</p><p> </p><p>From an article by Debby Rohr, a social worker and parent of a child with bipolar disorder:</p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong>"Understand that all children (and all people) manipulate in order to get something.</strong></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> It's human nature but has taken on a negative connotation. It's doubtful that the human race would be able to survive without people manipulating their environment. The difference with many ill children with bipolar, is that they often do not feel in control of <strong>anything</strong>, especially their brain functioning. If a parent thinks about the lack of control that children with bipolar may feel in all areas of their lives: being told when to go to bed, when to get up, when to go to school, being told to do schoolwork and housework, having peer-activity restrictions placed on them, feeling no control over their behaviors...it's no wonder that that they will manipulate to protect themselves from their environment. <strong>Refusing to do something or acting or lashing out, is often a way for children with bipolar to feel in control."</strong></span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000000">Before behavior modification or any other therapeutic intervention can begin, the medications need to be straightened out. It took us four years to get our son's medications worked out, and in those four years, he had great difficulty going to school, doing homework, doing chores, engaging in therapy, etc -- even though he <strong>knows</strong> what he should be doing. Clearly, the stakes are higher in your difficult child 2's case because of his dangerous behavior, but that points to an even more important reason for his mother to work on the medication piece. Nothing's going to happen until that happens. </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smallworld, post: 264992, member: 2423"] Heather, in my humble opinion, you're minimzing the importance of his not being on the right medications. Even when kids with bipolar disorder [B]know[/B] right from wrong, many of them cannot control their emotions until their medications help reduce the cycling. From an article by Debby Rohr, a social worker and parent of a child with bipolar disorder: [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial][B]"Understand that all children (and all people) manipulate in order to get something.[/B][/FONT][FONT=Arial] It's human nature but has taken on a negative connotation. It's doubtful that the human race would be able to survive without people manipulating their environment. The difference with many ill children with bipolar, is that they often do not feel in control of [B]anything[/B], especially their brain functioning. If a parent thinks about the lack of control that children with bipolar may feel in all areas of their lives: being told when to go to bed, when to get up, when to go to school, being told to do schoolwork and housework, having peer-activity restrictions placed on them, feeling no control over their behaviors...it's no wonder that that they will manipulate to protect themselves from their environment. [B]Refusing to do something or acting or lashing out, is often a way for children with bipolar to feel in control."[/B][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Before behavior modification or any other therapeutic intervention can begin, the medications need to be straightened out. It took us four years to get our son's medications worked out, and in those four years, he had great difficulty going to school, doing homework, doing chores, engaging in therapy, etc -- even though he [B]knows[/B] what he should be doing. Clearly, the stakes are higher in your difficult child 2's case because of his dangerous behavior, but that points to an even more important reason for his mother to work on the medication piece. Nothing's going to happen until that happens. [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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