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<blockquote data-quote="jal" data-source="post: 221393" data-attributes="member: 3477"><p>It does take a village!</p><p></p><p>difficult child is in out of district placement at a therpeutic school, we also have intensive in home therapy for him 2x a week. We did a medication was with difficult child which resulted in a 3 week psychiatric hospital stay this past summer. Since then difficult child was placed on Seroquel and Nortriptaline. We took off the Nortiptaline and he has been off that medication for 3 weeks now, so it is out of his system. Serouquels therapeutic level is 800mg and difficult child is only 6, so we are approaching that cautiously.</p><p></p><p>The thing is difficult child has no trouble sleeping through the night, does not get depressed, but has low frustration levels, can have violent/physical outbursts and seem to listen at all or respond if engrossed in something else.</p><p></p><p>Last night with-in home therapy he was bouncing around once the team arrived (somehwat normal 6 yr old showoff behavior). husband and I retreated downstairs as they wanted to worked on creating rules for him when they come to our home. difficult child is bouncing up and down, writhing all over the couch as they try to engage him. He goes to hide, moves a chair an starts to step on the banister railing. I had to get him down, then talk to him and redirect, which workd (they thought I had done it well-Sure. Only for how long in his life so far have I had the practice!)</p><p></p><p>Then he settled and did some work, then once we were invited to join it all started again. I mean I agree he needs to be brought down a bit (even very hyper in school), but I am so tired of the medication merry go round.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for everyone's input!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jal, post: 221393, member: 3477"] It does take a village! difficult child is in out of district placement at a therpeutic school, we also have intensive in home therapy for him 2x a week. We did a medication was with difficult child which resulted in a 3 week psychiatric hospital stay this past summer. Since then difficult child was placed on Seroquel and Nortriptaline. We took off the Nortiptaline and he has been off that medication for 3 weeks now, so it is out of his system. Serouquels therapeutic level is 800mg and difficult child is only 6, so we are approaching that cautiously. The thing is difficult child has no trouble sleeping through the night, does not get depressed, but has low frustration levels, can have violent/physical outbursts and seem to listen at all or respond if engrossed in something else. Last night with-in home therapy he was bouncing around once the team arrived (somehwat normal 6 yr old showoff behavior). husband and I retreated downstairs as they wanted to worked on creating rules for him when they come to our home. difficult child is bouncing up and down, writhing all over the couch as they try to engage him. He goes to hide, moves a chair an starts to step on the banister railing. I had to get him down, then talk to him and redirect, which workd (they thought I had done it well-Sure. Only for how long in his life so far have I had the practice!) Then he settled and did some work, then once we were invited to join it all started again. I mean I agree he needs to be brought down a bit (even very hyper in school), but I am so tired of the medication merry go round. Thanks for everyone's input! [/QUOTE]
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