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<blockquote data-quote="Second Time Around" data-source="post: 649020" data-attributes="member: 18739"><p>Confused, has he been diagnosed by a psychologist? Our Difficult Child was like that for many years. He was extremely unreasonable, blew up about all kinds of things, was very violent and aggressive. It was like he was walking around with a big chip on his shoulder looking for something to pick a fight about so he could let out all the anger that was constantly seething inside him. He was diagnosed with ADHD and depression for many years, but they were misdiagnoses. He was hospitalized several times when he was 7 and 8 years old and we had to place him in residential treatment for year when he was 8. They took him off stimulants and put him on anti-anxiety medications, which helped slightly, but then sent him home after a year saying that he wasn't making any progress.</p><p></p><p>He was home for another year, still having problems and so we admitted him to a different residential facility when he was 10. There was a different psychiatrist at that facility who recognized the symptoms of bipolar disorder (which they now call something different in children - I think it's intermittent explosive disorder). Once his medications were switched to bipolar medications, his anger and violence and bad moods dropped dramatically. He's still not an easy child to live with, but we are no longer feel like we are in danger in our own home. Some doctors don't believe that children can have bipolar disorder because it appears different than the long periods of highs and lows that adults have, but it exists. Our son was that way from birth. The stimulants that they gave him for his ADHD diagnosis made his anger and violence from the bipolar disorder much worse.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Second Time Around, post: 649020, member: 18739"] Confused, has he been diagnosed by a psychologist? Our Difficult Child was like that for many years. He was extremely unreasonable, blew up about all kinds of things, was very violent and aggressive. It was like he was walking around with a big chip on his shoulder looking for something to pick a fight about so he could let out all the anger that was constantly seething inside him. He was diagnosed with ADHD and depression for many years, but they were misdiagnoses. He was hospitalized several times when he was 7 and 8 years old and we had to place him in residential treatment for year when he was 8. They took him off stimulants and put him on anti-anxiety medications, which helped slightly, but then sent him home after a year saying that he wasn't making any progress. He was home for another year, still having problems and so we admitted him to a different residential facility when he was 10. There was a different psychiatrist at that facility who recognized the symptoms of bipolar disorder (which they now call something different in children - I think it's intermittent explosive disorder). Once his medications were switched to bipolar medications, his anger and violence and bad moods dropped dramatically. He's still not an easy child to live with, but we are no longer feel like we are in danger in our own home. Some doctors don't believe that children can have bipolar disorder because it appears different than the long periods of highs and lows that adults have, but it exists. Our son was that way from birth. The stimulants that they gave him for his ADHD diagnosis made his anger and violence from the bipolar disorder much worse. [/QUOTE]
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