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<blockquote data-quote="neednewtechnique" data-source="post: 40695" data-attributes="member: 3527"><p>Renaeb,</p><p></p><p>I can totally identify with you right now, and it almost makes me cry just thinking about it!! Our difficult child is also age 12, diagnosis with ODD. The double whammy is that at their delicate age, pre-adolescense is ALREADY filled with all sorts of problems and discomforts and insecurities for ANY child, plus dump all this on top of it, and it is quite a conflagration of BAD. Plus to put the cherry on top of a great stack of crap, although they have probably lived with this disorder most of their life, just starting proper treatment at this age is going to make them face it more head on, on a daily basis, and will probably cause even MORE changes because KNOWING what you are trying to work through, I am SURE that you are prepared to make some changes to the way he is disciplined at home, which will bring more insecurities for a while until he gets used to it.</p><p></p><p>Also, COMPLETELY off the subject, but I noticed that you also suffer from Migraines. I am sure that you can identify with the complete AGONY of suffering through difficult child having a meltdown while you are fighting a migraine?!?!!?!?!?!?! This has been one of my biggest struggles so far, becuase it is so tempting not to intervene at all, just because I don't feel like it, but then if difficult child starts raging at me while I am in so much pain I can't even turn a light on, I get so ticked it almost sends me over the edge. I know it isn't like she is out to get me, but she never has a normal day when I have a migraine. She is also BiPolar (BP), so the mood swings cause so many changes. It seems like the day I get a migraine, she is either so down and nasty that I don't even want to see her, or she is on such a high that she wants to talk and is totally chitchatty and I just want her to STOP TALKING...but those are probably the worst days, becuase we spend so much time dealing with meltdowns that I WANT to be able to ENJOY her "high" days when she is in such a good mood, but man when you have a migraine you don't want to hear ANYONE talking to you...ya know?!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="neednewtechnique, post: 40695, member: 3527"] Renaeb, I can totally identify with you right now, and it almost makes me cry just thinking about it!! Our difficult child is also age 12, diagnosis with ODD. The double whammy is that at their delicate age, pre-adolescense is ALREADY filled with all sorts of problems and discomforts and insecurities for ANY child, plus dump all this on top of it, and it is quite a conflagration of BAD. Plus to put the cherry on top of a great stack of crap, although they have probably lived with this disorder most of their life, just starting proper treatment at this age is going to make them face it more head on, on a daily basis, and will probably cause even MORE changes because KNOWING what you are trying to work through, I am SURE that you are prepared to make some changes to the way he is disciplined at home, which will bring more insecurities for a while until he gets used to it. Also, COMPLETELY off the subject, but I noticed that you also suffer from Migraines. I am sure that you can identify with the complete AGONY of suffering through difficult child having a meltdown while you are fighting a migraine?!?!!?!?!?!?! This has been one of my biggest struggles so far, becuase it is so tempting not to intervene at all, just because I don't feel like it, but then if difficult child starts raging at me while I am in so much pain I can't even turn a light on, I get so ticked it almost sends me over the edge. I know it isn't like she is out to get me, but she never has a normal day when I have a migraine. She is also BiPolar (BP), so the mood swings cause so many changes. It seems like the day I get a migraine, she is either so down and nasty that I don't even want to see her, or she is on such a high that she wants to talk and is totally chitchatty and I just want her to STOP TALKING...but those are probably the worst days, becuase we spend so much time dealing with meltdowns that I WANT to be able to ENJOY her "high" days when she is in such a good mood, but man when you have a migraine you don't want to hear ANYONE talking to you...ya know?! [/QUOTE]
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