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<blockquote data-quote="Second Time Around" data-source="post: 651240" data-attributes="member: 18739"><p>I don't have any suggestions yet, but spanking will not work and should not be used. Spanking just escalates the violence. Lots of people are well-meaning, but they don't really get what we're dealing with. Have you talked to his therapist/psychiatrist? Do they have any ideas? Our Difficult Child, he was a terror for years and nothing helped until he was properly diagnosed with a mood disorder and his medications were changed. Before that, his brain wasn't able to process things well enough to think about possible consequences at the time he did something. He felt angry and he took that out on everyone. Taking away things often made him even angrier and more violent. When he was raging, he would get this look in his eyes like he wasn't human and wasn't in there. We had to place him in residential treatment when he was 8. He was there for a year and they sent him home because he wasn't making any progress. He was home for another year and we were then able to admit him to a better facility that took kids 10 and older. The psychiatrist there figured out that he had bipolar disorder and changed his medications. After that, life improved dramatically.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Second Time Around, post: 651240, member: 18739"] I don't have any suggestions yet, but spanking will not work and should not be used. Spanking just escalates the violence. Lots of people are well-meaning, but they don't really get what we're dealing with. Have you talked to his therapist/psychiatrist? Do they have any ideas? Our Difficult Child, he was a terror for years and nothing helped until he was properly diagnosed with a mood disorder and his medications were changed. Before that, his brain wasn't able to process things well enough to think about possible consequences at the time he did something. He felt angry and he took that out on everyone. Taking away things often made him even angrier and more violent. When he was raging, he would get this look in his eyes like he wasn't human and wasn't in there. We had to place him in residential treatment when he was 8. He was there for a year and they sent him home because he wasn't making any progress. He was home for another year and we were then able to admit him to a better facility that took kids 10 and older. The psychiatrist there figured out that he had bipolar disorder and changed his medications. After that, life improved dramatically. [/QUOTE]
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