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<blockquote data-quote="tammyjh" data-source="post: 113477" data-attributes="member: 3072"><p>Peaceful,</p><p>difficult child seems to cycle with her mood instability. She'll be quite hyper/giddy... for who knows how long....could be hours, days, a week or two and then she'll crash and be extremely agitated and angry and anything can provoke a huge temper tantrum. It could be because someone said "good morning" to her and she just wasn't ready to hear it. Its like she gets in these moods that the irritability thats always just under the surface(even when she's hyper), just bubbles over and consumes her. That phase can also last for minutes, hours, days but when it passes, it passes quickly. Definite mood regulation problems that we know has to have its basis in the brain injury but we would really like to find something to give her even the tiniest bit of stability so that we can help her access her coping skills when she needs them. In short, she has plenty of coping skills, just can't get to them when they're needed. </p><p></p><p>She is definitely a left brained individual...very concrete, language based, impaired empathy, a lot of social deficits, her reasonin skills are poor, etc... Her nonverbal communication skills aren't good but she has made gains over the years in that area so we know that some rewiring has gone on. We're still hoping for more but working with her proves to be difficult because of the moood.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tammyjh, post: 113477, member: 3072"] Peaceful, difficult child seems to cycle with her mood instability. She'll be quite hyper/giddy... for who knows how long....could be hours, days, a week or two and then she'll crash and be extremely agitated and angry and anything can provoke a huge temper tantrum. It could be because someone said "good morning" to her and she just wasn't ready to hear it. Its like she gets in these moods that the irritability thats always just under the surface(even when she's hyper), just bubbles over and consumes her. That phase can also last for minutes, hours, days but when it passes, it passes quickly. Definite mood regulation problems that we know has to have its basis in the brain injury but we would really like to find something to give her even the tiniest bit of stability so that we can help her access her coping skills when she needs them. In short, she has plenty of coping skills, just can't get to them when they're needed. She is definitely a left brained individual...very concrete, language based, impaired empathy, a lot of social deficits, her reasonin skills are poor, etc... Her nonverbal communication skills aren't good but she has made gains over the years in that area so we know that some rewiring has gone on. We're still hoping for more but working with her proves to be difficult because of the moood. [/QUOTE]
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