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<blockquote data-quote="hhi" data-source="post: 639346" data-attributes="member: 18518"><p>Hello and welcome. Sounds like your daughter is in a downward spiral. It's completely reasonable that you feel like you're at a breaking point. been there done that</p><p></p><p>Some of our kids are the way they are due to genetics, some due brain injury or early trauma, some for no obvious reason at all. There are people here with loads of experience and no-one has yet been able to come up with a single cause or a simple way to deal with kids like this.</p><p></p><p>But there is no way parenting and home life causes all of the problems your daughter is having. Perhaps some of those problems may imitate ADHD - e.g. it is common among fostered and adopted children but could either be because they carry a lot of baggage from early experiences, a lot of bad memories, or it could be genetic and the reason they are adopted/fostered is because undx-ed and untreated parents can't look after them.</p><p></p><p>I could go on - but I won't just rest assured it is not your fault, it is not her current home life. You are a good parent. She has recognized brain disorders that can be treated either by diet in some cases, or in others by medication - but only to an extent. Behavior modification is often needed too, but there's no guarantee that will get her on track either - good books to start with are The Explosive Child by Greene and The Defiant Child by Riley.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hhi, post: 639346, member: 18518"] Hello and welcome. Sounds like your daughter is in a downward spiral. It's completely reasonable that you feel like you're at a breaking point. been there done that Some of our kids are the way they are due to genetics, some due brain injury or early trauma, some for no obvious reason at all. There are people here with loads of experience and no-one has yet been able to come up with a single cause or a simple way to deal with kids like this. But there is no way parenting and home life causes all of the problems your daughter is having. Perhaps some of those problems may imitate ADHD - e.g. it is common among fostered and adopted children but could either be because they carry a lot of baggage from early experiences, a lot of bad memories, or it could be genetic and the reason they are adopted/fostered is because undx-ed and untreated parents can't look after them. I could go on - but I won't just rest assured it is not your fault, it is not her current home life. You are a good parent. She has recognized brain disorders that can be treated either by diet in some cases, or in others by medication - but only to an extent. Behavior modification is often needed too, but there's no guarantee that will get her on track either - good books to start with are The Explosive Child by Greene and The Defiant Child by Riley. [/QUOTE]
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