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School wanting to put Bipolar son in "adaptive behavior class" please help!
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<blockquote data-quote="rlsnights" data-source="post: 416203" data-attributes="member: 7948"><p>Sounds like you are doing your homework and have solid reasons for going in a different direction.</p><p></p><p>I understand the issues about having a kid who is medically fragile. Got a couple here, one immune suppressed to maintain remission from an autoimmune disease.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, I have heard the same line here about the behavior of a kid who has been "spoiled" because he has been really sick. I am sure that is true and the complete explanation for some kids. It is not the complete explanation for mine and I'm not even sure that it's more than a very small part of the explanation.</p><p></p><p>For us, what looks like "spoiled" to other people is actually a combination of an inability to take another person's perspective, problems with pragmatic language and abstract thinking, mild thought disorder (ideas of reference) and grandiosity from the bipolar. All together - when he's on a roll fully hooked into the thought disorder and grandiosity he comes across as a defiant, entitled kid who just needs to be put in his place. But if you really try to talk to him, reason with him, get him to see things from your perspective? He cannot do it and you will never penetrate that irrational thinking as long as the disorder thinking is in the driver's seat.</p><p></p><p>Has your son had a neuropsychologist assessment? I expect if he's gone through intense treatment he has some significant long term side effects. Has this been explored as a possible factor contributing to his behavioral problems?</p><p></p><p>Has he had a thorough speech and language assessment? This turned out to be the one thing I would have skipped that provided some vital clues to what was going on with my difficult child 2.</p><p></p><p>I hope you and your husband are in therapy to help you. And that you have found a good child psychiatrist and child therapist.</p><p></p><p>It must be especially hard to have gone through so much to get him well and keep him well only to be faced with such extreme behaviors.</p><p></p><p>Hugs.</p><p></p><p>Patricia</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rlsnights, post: 416203, member: 7948"] Sounds like you are doing your homework and have solid reasons for going in a different direction. I understand the issues about having a kid who is medically fragile. Got a couple here, one immune suppressed to maintain remission from an autoimmune disease. Anyway, I have heard the same line here about the behavior of a kid who has been "spoiled" because he has been really sick. I am sure that is true and the complete explanation for some kids. It is not the complete explanation for mine and I'm not even sure that it's more than a very small part of the explanation. For us, what looks like "spoiled" to other people is actually a combination of an inability to take another person's perspective, problems with pragmatic language and abstract thinking, mild thought disorder (ideas of reference) and grandiosity from the bipolar. All together - when he's on a roll fully hooked into the thought disorder and grandiosity he comes across as a defiant, entitled kid who just needs to be put in his place. But if you really try to talk to him, reason with him, get him to see things from your perspective? He cannot do it and you will never penetrate that irrational thinking as long as the disorder thinking is in the driver's seat. Has your son had a neuropsychologist assessment? I expect if he's gone through intense treatment he has some significant long term side effects. Has this been explored as a possible factor contributing to his behavioral problems? Has he had a thorough speech and language assessment? This turned out to be the one thing I would have skipped that provided some vital clues to what was going on with my difficult child 2. I hope you and your husband are in therapy to help you. And that you have found a good child psychiatrist and child therapist. It must be especially hard to have gone through so much to get him well and keep him well only to be faced with such extreme behaviors. Hugs. Patricia [/QUOTE]
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