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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 364248" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Welcome!!</p><p></p><p>As Beth said, many of us feel that ODD is more of a symptom than a diagnosis (diagnosis). ODD describes a set of problematic behaviors that are common to many problems children may have. Most diagnosis's describe symptoms and have a specific course of treatment that helps the problems. There is no treatment that really helps ODD. The diagnosis is pretty useless in terms of helping a child. Mostly it tells you the child has the behaviors and no one knows what to do or why they exist. Many of us have found that when we treat our child's primary diagnosis or diagnosis's in an effective way then the ODD behaviors greatly lessen or even disappear. This is why we don't feel it is a helpful diagnosis. It may help with insurance though, as sometimes the more diagnosis's are shown the more treatment options your insurance will cover.</p><p></p><p>As for it running in families, I don't think anyone knows. MANY other problems do run in families. I would take a look at the family tree to see what is going on there. Often untreated mental illness shows up as alcoholism and/or substance abuse. Many times those problems exist because a person is self-medicating in lieu of recognizing a real problem.</p><p></p><p>Early onset bipolar, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), anxiety related problems, and even autistic spectrum disorders do all seem to run in families, as do many other things. This includes cousins. I can point out various Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) problems in my father's side of the family. There are a huge number of cousins in his generation and it is pretty wild to look at them as a group. (It is even wilder to think about them growing up - they all lived with-in about 2 city blocks!)</p><p></p><p>If you can give us more information we can probably be much more helpful. This is an incredibly supportive group where we truly have been there done that for many problems that most people never even see.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 364248, member: 1233"] Welcome!! As Beth said, many of us feel that ODD is more of a symptom than a diagnosis (diagnosis). ODD describes a set of problematic behaviors that are common to many problems children may have. Most diagnosis's describe symptoms and have a specific course of treatment that helps the problems. There is no treatment that really helps ODD. The diagnosis is pretty useless in terms of helping a child. Mostly it tells you the child has the behaviors and no one knows what to do or why they exist. Many of us have found that when we treat our child's primary diagnosis or diagnosis's in an effective way then the ODD behaviors greatly lessen or even disappear. This is why we don't feel it is a helpful diagnosis. It may help with insurance though, as sometimes the more diagnosis's are shown the more treatment options your insurance will cover. As for it running in families, I don't think anyone knows. MANY other problems do run in families. I would take a look at the family tree to see what is going on there. Often untreated mental illness shows up as alcoholism and/or substance abuse. Many times those problems exist because a person is self-medicating in lieu of recognizing a real problem. Early onset bipolar, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), anxiety related problems, and even autistic spectrum disorders do all seem to run in families, as do many other things. This includes cousins. I can point out various Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) problems in my father's side of the family. There are a huge number of cousins in his generation and it is pretty wild to look at them as a group. (It is even wilder to think about them growing up - they all lived with-in about 2 city blocks!) If you can give us more information we can probably be much more helpful. This is an incredibly supportive group where we truly have been there done that for many problems that most people never even see. [/QUOTE]
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