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<blockquote data-quote="danablue" data-source="post: 380614"><p>Thanks for being willing to discuss. He's been in therapy a couple of times, and we've consulted with his pedi (you know the drill: fill out this form and have his teachers fill out one). The first guy said, he's too young to diagnose (he was maybe 7). The next lady talked, talked, talked -- and he manipulated her like salt water taffy. Oh, poor thing. She was going to set up a neuropsychologist for him a little over a year ago -- but she died suddenly. The pedi says, hmmm, he's not so far out of the box that he screams "disorder." And to be fair, he does have periods of time when he's on the high side of normal. And that tends to indicate to me and his dad and everyone else that it's controllable, that this is adolescence. And then he goes off the rails again.</p><p> </p><p>I don't want to medicate adolescence, but at the same time, I don't want to punish stuff he can't control. I'm stuck. And I haven't been impressed so far with the professionals.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="danablue, post: 380614"] Thanks for being willing to discuss. He's been in therapy a couple of times, and we've consulted with his pedi (you know the drill: fill out this form and have his teachers fill out one). The first guy said, he's too young to diagnose (he was maybe 7). The next lady talked, talked, talked -- and he manipulated her like salt water taffy. Oh, poor thing. She was going to set up a neuropsychologist for him a little over a year ago -- but she died suddenly. The pedi says, hmmm, he's not so far out of the box that he screams "disorder." And to be fair, he does have periods of time when he's on the high side of normal. And that tends to indicate to me and his dad and everyone else that it's controllable, that this is adolescence. And then he goes off the rails again. I don't want to medicate adolescence, but at the same time, I don't want to punish stuff he can't control. I'm stuck. And I haven't been impressed so far with the professionals. [/QUOTE]
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