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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 108678" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>To Grinchy: Anytime violence is an issue you have two choices that will likely help you the most:</p><p></p><p>1/A new evaluation by a neuropsychologist (they do the most intensive testing--everyone else is really just guessing). </p><p></p><p>2/Look at the medications. Bad reactions to stims and antidepressants are red flags for mood disorders, although some kids act badly to those medications just because they are stimulating medications. I never understand why doctors put kids on both a stimulant and an antidepressant. </p><p></p><p>When violence becomes an issue, in my opinion don't trust your kid to just a non-MD psychologist or other sort of therapist. I'd want the full nine yards of testing before I changed anything. Violence can be caused by many things--the wrong diagnosis or the wrong medication or a particular mental or neurological illness and it's really best not to have a doctor "guessing" with the medications. We had that experiment done to our son and it was terrible. So I sort of urge people to go straight to the Top Guns. They can be wrong, but are less likely to. And I like all the testing that the NeuroPsychs do. They are good at spotting trouble spots that other professionals never look into--the ones who diagnose based on what your say and what they see, but without extensive testing. That can help avoid the alphabet soup diagnosis. that aren't too helpful and all the guessing games. Good luck!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 108678, member: 1550"] To Grinchy: Anytime violence is an issue you have two choices that will likely help you the most: 1/A new evaluation by a neuropsychologist (they do the most intensive testing--everyone else is really just guessing). 2/Look at the medications. Bad reactions to stims and antidepressants are red flags for mood disorders, although some kids act badly to those medications just because they are stimulating medications. I never understand why doctors put kids on both a stimulant and an antidepressant. When violence becomes an issue, in my opinion don't trust your kid to just a non-MD psychologist or other sort of therapist. I'd want the full nine yards of testing before I changed anything. Violence can be caused by many things--the wrong diagnosis or the wrong medication or a particular mental or neurological illness and it's really best not to have a doctor "guessing" with the medications. We had that experiment done to our son and it was terrible. So I sort of urge people to go straight to the Top Guns. They can be wrong, but are less likely to. And I like all the testing that the NeuroPsychs do. They are good at spotting trouble spots that other professionals never look into--the ones who diagnose based on what your say and what they see, but without extensive testing. That can help avoid the alphabet soup diagnosis. that aren't too helpful and all the guessing games. Good luck! [/QUOTE]
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