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<blockquote data-quote="Steely" data-source="post: 54459" data-attributes="member: 3301"><p>Welcome crazamama,</p><p></p><p>You have definitely come to the right place! We all have children that have a variety of emotional disturbances in one form or another. You have also taken a great first step by getting the book The Explosive Child. in my opinion that is the best tool to help a child prone to tantrums and excessive emotion. It is one of the books the parents on this board recommend most often.</p><p></p><p>I understand your feelings about not having an actual "diagnosis". I did not have that either for my son for quite a long time. At the time he was 4 we had some neuro-psychiatric testing, and we found out he had a Non Verbal Learning Disability (LD), but this was before Aspergers & Non Verbal Learning Disability (LD) was really understood. Therefore the professionals still could not explain why he was acting out as much as he was. Further down the road, around age 11 and 12 he began to display more hallmark symptoms of Bi-Polar, and we started the appropriate medications. Still, though, the labels doctors put on him (you can see in my profile there are a lot) never did much to help me deal with my son effectively. It has been simply trial and error with medications, behavior modification, therapy, etc. that has made the difference. </p><p></p><p>This board is one of the best things you could do for yourself! So welcome! You will find amazing support and information from these wonderful people.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steely, post: 54459, member: 3301"] Welcome crazamama, You have definitely come to the right place! We all have children that have a variety of emotional disturbances in one form or another. You have also taken a great first step by getting the book The Explosive Child. in my opinion that is the best tool to help a child prone to tantrums and excessive emotion. It is one of the books the parents on this board recommend most often. I understand your feelings about not having an actual "diagnosis". I did not have that either for my son for quite a long time. At the time he was 4 we had some neuro-psychiatric testing, and we found out he had a Non Verbal Learning Disability (LD), but this was before Aspergers & Non Verbal Learning Disability (LD) was really understood. Therefore the professionals still could not explain why he was acting out as much as he was. Further down the road, around age 11 and 12 he began to display more hallmark symptoms of Bi-Polar, and we started the appropriate medications. Still, though, the labels doctors put on him (you can see in my profile there are a lot) never did much to help me deal with my son effectively. It has been simply trial and error with medications, behavior modification, therapy, etc. that has made the difference. This board is one of the best things you could do for yourself! So welcome! You will find amazing support and information from these wonderful people. [/QUOTE]
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