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Need help finding resources for children with bi-polar disorder PLEASE!
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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 426476" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>The dizzy spells and vomiting - if the middle ear tests come back negative, consider the possibility that this is an anxiety-related problem. We have learned to not underestimate how bad they can feel, purely due to anxiety. difficult child 3 has reported feeling impending doom, being convinced he is dying, convinced something really catastrophic is about to happen. Even though he is autistic, at times he has shown extraordinary sensitivity to a place or other people's responses. When he was 11 we visited Port Arthur in Tasmania, a historic site that used to be a convict penal colony. It's actually a very beautiful place, but is also the location of what I have been told is the worst massacre by a lone gunman, in the world. That massacre led to Australia's current strict gun laws. When we were there, nobody mentioned the massacre. The name of the gunman is not uttered in that state (he is currently in jail, they threw away the key). But difficult child 3 kept saying, "I have to get away from here, something bad is going to happen. This is a bad place, there is something very bad here..." and yet he calmed down when we got into a boat to tour the outlying islands. The gunman never went near the boat or the islands. I must admit - I was spooked by it. difficult child 3 was even upset when outside in the carpark of the place. And he had absolutely no knowledge of the massacre, or the way the gunman hunted a mother and two girls up through the carpark. It was a very disturbing experience for us that day. When easy child 2/difficult child 2 wanted to go back there the next day, we had problems with difficult child 3 again, even just dropping his sister off in the car park. He insisted we leave the motor running. </p><p></p><p>Since then, in other travels of ours, difficult child 3 has reacted to his own fears about a place, and it has taken a lot of effort to talk him down. Usually it is only after we have left and are putting some road distance between us and where we were, that his symptoms begin to ease. Nausea, mild fever, sometimes vomiting, looking very green, lethargic, tearful.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 426476, member: 1991"] The dizzy spells and vomiting - if the middle ear tests come back negative, consider the possibility that this is an anxiety-related problem. We have learned to not underestimate how bad they can feel, purely due to anxiety. difficult child 3 has reported feeling impending doom, being convinced he is dying, convinced something really catastrophic is about to happen. Even though he is autistic, at times he has shown extraordinary sensitivity to a place or other people's responses. When he was 11 we visited Port Arthur in Tasmania, a historic site that used to be a convict penal colony. It's actually a very beautiful place, but is also the location of what I have been told is the worst massacre by a lone gunman, in the world. That massacre led to Australia's current strict gun laws. When we were there, nobody mentioned the massacre. The name of the gunman is not uttered in that state (he is currently in jail, they threw away the key). But difficult child 3 kept saying, "I have to get away from here, something bad is going to happen. This is a bad place, there is something very bad here..." and yet he calmed down when we got into a boat to tour the outlying islands. The gunman never went near the boat or the islands. I must admit - I was spooked by it. difficult child 3 was even upset when outside in the carpark of the place. And he had absolutely no knowledge of the massacre, or the way the gunman hunted a mother and two girls up through the carpark. It was a very disturbing experience for us that day. When easy child 2/difficult child 2 wanted to go back there the next day, we had problems with difficult child 3 again, even just dropping his sister off in the car park. He insisted we leave the motor running. Since then, in other travels of ours, difficult child 3 has reacted to his own fears about a place, and it has taken a lot of effort to talk him down. Usually it is only after we have left and are putting some road distance between us and where we were, that his symptoms begin to ease. Nausea, mild fever, sometimes vomiting, looking very green, lethargic, tearful. Marg [/QUOTE]
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