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<blockquote data-quote="red" data-source="post: 318358" data-attributes="member: 8390"><p>My son was biting his hands for stress relief starting in fourth grade. He is 13 now. I could tell when he had a bad day at school from the tooth marks on his hands. He was also scratching his arms and leaving bruises on his inner elbow. It was all from stress and tension at school. The therapist said to ignore it and taught him anger management techniques. We talked to the school about his IEP and allowing him to leave the room under stress. Slowly, gradually, the marks started disappearing and he started succeeding in school. But in seventh he was diagnosed with depression and started taking abilify and that has made all the difference. Now I think self injuring and depression are linked and were for him. The doctor in the hospital said that depression and mania are not opposite sides of the same coin, they are different coins. He said our son has just plain old depression with no mania and there is no reason to think they are linked unless you see it. But you have to do something before it turns into cutting. Cutting is a hard habit to break, we've seen with our friends' children.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="red, post: 318358, member: 8390"] My son was biting his hands for stress relief starting in fourth grade. He is 13 now. I could tell when he had a bad day at school from the tooth marks on his hands. He was also scratching his arms and leaving bruises on his inner elbow. It was all from stress and tension at school. The therapist said to ignore it and taught him anger management techniques. We talked to the school about his IEP and allowing him to leave the room under stress. Slowly, gradually, the marks started disappearing and he started succeeding in school. But in seventh he was diagnosed with depression and started taking abilify and that has made all the difference. Now I think self injuring and depression are linked and were for him. The doctor in the hospital said that depression and mania are not opposite sides of the same coin, they are different coins. He said our son has just plain old depression with no mania and there is no reason to think they are linked unless you see it. But you have to do something before it turns into cutting. Cutting is a hard habit to break, we've seen with our friends' children. [/QUOTE]
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