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<blockquote data-quote="TeDo" data-source="post: 567416"><p>To be perfectly honest, you need a new psychiatrist. There is NO WAY your parenting is the problem (we've all heard that about a zillion times from ignorant people that are quick to judge....yes, that includes many "professionals") and ODD is not recognized by many of us here as a helpful diagnosis. All that label says is that the child is oppositional and defiant (DUH!!) but does not tell you why so you can try to make things better. My son carried that diagnosis for 3 years and the school's way to "deal" with it is to "show him whose boss" only to find out it wasn't ODD after all, he's on the autism spectrum. I would stick with the anxiety diagnosis from the sounds of his actions (VERY similar to difficult child 1's at that age) and look into an anti-anxiety medication. You really, really, REALLY need to find a "GOOD" psychiatrist, not the quack you have now.</p><p></p><p>As for the Tenex, difficult child 1 takes 1 mg between 8 and 8:30 every night and bedtime is 10. He usually falls asleep by 10:30 and has absolutely no problems being tired...at least not fromt he medications. How much does your son weigh and how much does he take and when does he take it? difficult child 1 only weighs 75 pounds (he's 14) so the highest the psychiatrist said we can go is 1.5 mg a day. We tried 1/2 a mg in the morning but it started lowering his blood pressure at that dose so we stopped that dose. Did the Risperdal help when he was on it???</p><p></p><p>I would 1) find a new psychiatrist ASAP and 2) figure out why he's so tired. When difficult child 1 acted that way at school, it was because he was so scared (anxiety disorder) that he did what he thought he had to to get out of the situation. Yes, they sent him home too. Once I figured out what the problem was, I went with him to school and sat in the room for a couple days until HE told me he was okay without me there. It was worth the time off work.</p><p></p><p>Welcome to our little corner of the world. Others will come around but week-ends are a little slow here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TeDo, post: 567416"] To be perfectly honest, you need a new psychiatrist. There is NO WAY your parenting is the problem (we've all heard that about a zillion times from ignorant people that are quick to judge....yes, that includes many "professionals") and ODD is not recognized by many of us here as a helpful diagnosis. All that label says is that the child is oppositional and defiant (DUH!!) but does not tell you why so you can try to make things better. My son carried that diagnosis for 3 years and the school's way to "deal" with it is to "show him whose boss" only to find out it wasn't ODD after all, he's on the autism spectrum. I would stick with the anxiety diagnosis from the sounds of his actions (VERY similar to difficult child 1's at that age) and look into an anti-anxiety medication. You really, really, REALLY need to find a "GOOD" psychiatrist, not the quack you have now. As for the Tenex, difficult child 1 takes 1 mg between 8 and 8:30 every night and bedtime is 10. He usually falls asleep by 10:30 and has absolutely no problems being tired...at least not fromt he medications. How much does your son weigh and how much does he take and when does he take it? difficult child 1 only weighs 75 pounds (he's 14) so the highest the psychiatrist said we can go is 1.5 mg a day. We tried 1/2 a mg in the morning but it started lowering his blood pressure at that dose so we stopped that dose. Did the Risperdal help when he was on it??? I would 1) find a new psychiatrist ASAP and 2) figure out why he's so tired. When difficult child 1 acted that way at school, it was because he was so scared (anxiety disorder) that he did what he thought he had to to get out of the situation. Yes, they sent him home too. Once I figured out what the problem was, I went with him to school and sat in the room for a couple days until HE told me he was okay without me there. It was worth the time off work. Welcome to our little corner of the world. Others will come around but week-ends are a little slow here. [/QUOTE]
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