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<blockquote data-quote="neednewtechnique" data-source="post: 25396" data-attributes="member: 3527"><p>That is exactly the thing that I keep trying to make our PDR understand. With the severity of her mood disorders, BiPolar (BP) and ODD, I am more concerned at this point with stabilizing them than the ADHD, and once we have the BiPolar (BP) and ODD under control, THEN take a look at the symptoms that are left, and go from there. medications or No medications, I feel like she is putting all her focus into properly controlling her ADHD, and completely ignoring the LARGER problems. Seems like misplaced priorities to me. I know I keep saying this everywhere I write, and hopefully after next month, you will never hear it again!!! Well, at least not from me... but the new PDR has a "plan" to focus first on the BiPolar (BP) and ODD, then go back to the other stuff after that is taken care of, which is ALL we were EVER asking from her current PDR, who doesn't care to listen to anything we say, or anything that our difficult child says. (Note, this is also the woman with such a biased against a father raising his teenaged daughter, that she would rather see our difficult child go back to living with her drug addicted mother and her mother's convicted felon, sex offender boyfriend, than to continue living with us.) Just one more reason added to our list of things that prompted us to get a second opinion regarding our difficult child's mental treatment. Plus, the new PDR is linked with the Mental Health Center that our daughter's psychotherapist and crisis intervention worker are employed by. Which makes things easier because she has very easy access to all of the therapists notes during counseling sessions, and will also be paged personally as an FYI if we ever call crisis, and will immediately contact us the next day to follow up herself. I really think this will be a great asset to our difficult child's treatment plan, and I am so fed up with everything right now that I would be extremely happy if the new PDR wants to wipe out all her medications for a few weeks to monitor her symptoms and then just start all over!!!!! Although some of you are probably thinking that would be a terrible thing to do to a child, I am already convinced that the medications she is taking are hurting her more than helping her, so I don't really have any concerns that she will get WORSE if we wipe everything out for a few weeks, plus if the end result is better for her, then I think it would certainly be worth it to try. Surely it would be much more accurate for a new PDR to be able to monitor our difficult child's "raw" or "pure" symptoms without the effects of medication to form her own opinion of our difficult child's symptoms and diagnosis. </p><p></p><p>I would like to hear some thoughts on this idea...DIRECT HONESTY, because as I already mentioned, I am sure that some of you think that this would be a terrible thing to do to a child, so if that's the case, say it! You won't hurt my feelings any. But I am also interested to see how many of you agree.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="neednewtechnique, post: 25396, member: 3527"] That is exactly the thing that I keep trying to make our PDR understand. With the severity of her mood disorders, BiPolar (BP) and ODD, I am more concerned at this point with stabilizing them than the ADHD, and once we have the BiPolar (BP) and ODD under control, THEN take a look at the symptoms that are left, and go from there. medications or No medications, I feel like she is putting all her focus into properly controlling her ADHD, and completely ignoring the LARGER problems. Seems like misplaced priorities to me. I know I keep saying this everywhere I write, and hopefully after next month, you will never hear it again!!! Well, at least not from me... but the new PDR has a "plan" to focus first on the BiPolar (BP) and ODD, then go back to the other stuff after that is taken care of, which is ALL we were EVER asking from her current PDR, who doesn't care to listen to anything we say, or anything that our difficult child says. (Note, this is also the woman with such a biased against a father raising his teenaged daughter, that she would rather see our difficult child go back to living with her drug addicted mother and her mother's convicted felon, sex offender boyfriend, than to continue living with us.) Just one more reason added to our list of things that prompted us to get a second opinion regarding our difficult child's mental treatment. Plus, the new PDR is linked with the Mental Health Center that our daughter's psychotherapist and crisis intervention worker are employed by. Which makes things easier because she has very easy access to all of the therapists notes during counseling sessions, and will also be paged personally as an FYI if we ever call crisis, and will immediately contact us the next day to follow up herself. I really think this will be a great asset to our difficult child's treatment plan, and I am so fed up with everything right now that I would be extremely happy if the new PDR wants to wipe out all her medications for a few weeks to monitor her symptoms and then just start all over!!!!! Although some of you are probably thinking that would be a terrible thing to do to a child, I am already convinced that the medications she is taking are hurting her more than helping her, so I don't really have any concerns that she will get WORSE if we wipe everything out for a few weeks, plus if the end result is better for her, then I think it would certainly be worth it to try. Surely it would be much more accurate for a new PDR to be able to monitor our difficult child's "raw" or "pure" symptoms without the effects of medication to form her own opinion of our difficult child's symptoms and diagnosis. I would like to hear some thoughts on this idea...DIRECT HONESTY, because as I already mentioned, I am sure that some of you think that this would be a terrible thing to do to a child, so if that's the case, say it! You won't hurt my feelings any. But I am also interested to see how many of you agree. [/QUOTE]
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