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<blockquote data-quote="DaisyFace" data-source="post: 346691" data-attributes="member: 6546"><p>Janet--</p><p> </p><p>It makes a TON of sense!!!</p><p> </p><p>Have you ever been to two different medical doctors for the same symptom--and they treat it differently? Like one doctor might take a look at your skin rash and prescribe an ointment to soothe the rash and think the problem is solved. Another doctor might look at the same rash and instead of just treating the symptoms, they will try to find the underlying cause.</p><p> </p><p>For many years, I have been BEGGING professionals to please try and find an underlying cause. What? Why? Why is this child acting this way? What is causing my child to do these things?</p><p> </p><p>And I feel as though docs have looked only at the surface symptoms. They have assumed superficial answers to serious questions. The child has been chronically angry--but they treat each therapy session as though the anger is acute--like something must have happened <em>just that day</em> to explain the child's anger. The child threatends suicide--they react as though this was an unforeseeable event. O gee--what happened this week to make this child so depressed? The child lies about EVERYTHING, constantly--and yet they want to tell me that each lie is an isolated incident, with no relavence to anything else.</p><p> </p><p>So this doctor started with questionaires, and one-on-one interviews. </p><p> </p><p>And then there was the behavior chart (I was not thrilled, but I went along with it) and I put all kinds of basic stuff on the chart. And now there it is, in black and white--a clear record of the stuff that difficult child cannot seem to handle, over a period of six weeks.</p><p> </p><p>AND this doctor got to see first-hand some of difficult child's anger toward her family.</p><p> </p><p>This doctor--unlike previous professionals--seems to be trying to fit the whole picture together. </p><p> </p><p>Like you said--disorders just don't appear overnight...or on a certain birthdate or milestone. They are cumulative and quantitative.</p><p> </p><p>So I am hopeful. Right now, what this doctor is telling me makes a lot of sense. I hope we get some real answers from all of this...</p><p> </p><p>Thanks for listening!</p><p> </p><p>--Daisyface</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DaisyFace, post: 346691, member: 6546"] Janet-- It makes a TON of sense!!! Have you ever been to two different medical doctors for the same symptom--and they treat it differently? Like one doctor might take a look at your skin rash and prescribe an ointment to soothe the rash and think the problem is solved. Another doctor might look at the same rash and instead of just treating the symptoms, they will try to find the underlying cause. For many years, I have been BEGGING professionals to please try and find an underlying cause. What? Why? Why is this child acting this way? What is causing my child to do these things? And I feel as though docs have looked only at the surface symptoms. They have assumed superficial answers to serious questions. The child has been chronically angry--but they treat each therapy session as though the anger is acute--like something must have happened [I]just that day[/I] to explain the child's anger. The child threatends suicide--they react as though this was an unforeseeable event. O gee--what happened this week to make this child so depressed? The child lies about EVERYTHING, constantly--and yet they want to tell me that each lie is an isolated incident, with no relavence to anything else. So this doctor started with questionaires, and one-on-one interviews. And then there was the behavior chart (I was not thrilled, but I went along with it) and I put all kinds of basic stuff on the chart. And now there it is, in black and white--a clear record of the stuff that difficult child cannot seem to handle, over a period of six weeks. AND this doctor got to see first-hand some of difficult child's anger toward her family. This doctor--unlike previous professionals--seems to be trying to fit the whole picture together. Like you said--disorders just don't appear overnight...or on a certain birthdate or milestone. They are cumulative and quantitative. So I am hopeful. Right now, what this doctor is telling me makes a lot of sense. I hope we get some real answers from all of this... Thanks for listening! --Daisyface [/QUOTE]
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