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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 368530" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>If you are interested in the place I think is the best in Chicago (I was in their hospital) send me a PM. You can't post names here. I lived in Chicago most of my life and saw shrinks most of my life. I do have a mood disorder. ADHD/ODD often evolves into a mood disorder or you find out the chld has Aspergers/autistic spectrum. Although I need medications, and many kids do, I would want to be more certain what is going on before taking any path at all.</p><p></p><p>I would get a neuropsychologist evaluation first. The kids are tested 6-10 hours and in every way. Psychiatrists don't do that. I've been to at least twenty psychiatrists and the only time I had any diagnostic testing was the ten weeks I spent in the hospital (this was when insurance allowed you to stay in the hospital until you were well). Other than that, all the psychiatrists and psychologists and therapists made snap decisions on my diagnosis (and, boy, I got a lot of them). I started to tune them all out. It took a long time...a decade...to find the right medications, and the doctors tended to overmedicate me which I hated so keep an eye out for that...medications can help or hurt, depending.</p><p></p><p>At any rate, I wish you the best of luck, whatever you decide to do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 368530, member: 1550"] If you are interested in the place I think is the best in Chicago (I was in their hospital) send me a PM. You can't post names here. I lived in Chicago most of my life and saw shrinks most of my life. I do have a mood disorder. ADHD/ODD often evolves into a mood disorder or you find out the chld has Aspergers/autistic spectrum. Although I need medications, and many kids do, I would want to be more certain what is going on before taking any path at all. I would get a neuropsychologist evaluation first. The kids are tested 6-10 hours and in every way. Psychiatrists don't do that. I've been to at least twenty psychiatrists and the only time I had any diagnostic testing was the ten weeks I spent in the hospital (this was when insurance allowed you to stay in the hospital until you were well). Other than that, all the psychiatrists and psychologists and therapists made snap decisions on my diagnosis (and, boy, I got a lot of them). I started to tune them all out. It took a long time...a decade...to find the right medications, and the doctors tended to overmedicate me which I hated so keep an eye out for that...medications can help or hurt, depending. At any rate, I wish you the best of luck, whatever you decide to do. [/QUOTE]
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