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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 191794" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>Welcome! I'd take him to another place and lose this psychiatric. There is no excuse for letting this go on for 5 years without being straight with you and it appears to me (although I'm no expert- just my 2 cents here) that he hasn't been straight with you. First, ODD rarely stands alone. Second, if this psychiatric was on the right course with this I don't think things would have continued for 5 years without improvement. Third, any professional worth his salt would have recommended neuropsychological testing or <em>some</em> form of evaluation by now. </p><p></p><p>So, my suggestion would be to make an appointment with a neuropsychologist and have testing done. Personally, when there is a shread of reason to think a mood disorder could be involved, I like having a psychiatrist on board too. A neurologist can be helpful (I'm talking about to get their opinion- not see him weekly forever) but in your case, I don't know that they would be needed- if there was doubt in that area, I would think it would become clear through testing and a psychiatric evaluation. After those two things are done (assuming the psychiatrist and psychiatric discuss things and usually they would), you should have a pretty clear picture what is going on with him and be steered to a therapist or whatever means might be able to support you and him more.</p><p></p><p>I'm so sorry you have gone through this- it just sounds to me like this psychiatric is not barking up the right tree and it's hard for me to accept that he doesn't know it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 191794, member: 3699"] Welcome! I'd take him to another place and lose this psychiatric. There is no excuse for letting this go on for 5 years without being straight with you and it appears to me (although I'm no expert- just my 2 cents here) that he hasn't been straight with you. First, ODD rarely stands alone. Second, if this psychiatric was on the right course with this I don't think things would have continued for 5 years without improvement. Third, any professional worth his salt would have recommended neuropsychological testing or [I]some[/I] form of evaluation by now. So, my suggestion would be to make an appointment with a neuropsychologist and have testing done. Personally, when there is a shread of reason to think a mood disorder could be involved, I like having a psychiatrist on board too. A neurologist can be helpful (I'm talking about to get their opinion- not see him weekly forever) but in your case, I don't know that they would be needed- if there was doubt in that area, I would think it would become clear through testing and a psychiatric evaluation. After those two things are done (assuming the psychiatrist and psychiatric discuss things and usually they would), you should have a pretty clear picture what is going on with him and be steered to a therapist or whatever means might be able to support you and him more. I'm so sorry you have gone through this- it just sounds to me like this psychiatric is not barking up the right tree and it's hard for me to accept that he doesn't know it. [/QUOTE]
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