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Talk Therapy for 7 Year Old. Thoughts?
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<blockquote data-quote="HMBgal" data-source="post: 626314" data-attributes="member: 13260"><p>Thanks for the replies. It is helpful. Being at Kaiser, you have to take what you get. The medication doctor is more "How are things going? Here's your prescription. See you in six months." </p><p></p><p>If this boy had just plain ADHD (I know there's no such thing), this wouldn't feel necessary to at least try, but the task refusal at school, the anger, the anxiety and worry he seems to be in the middle of all the time is heartbreaking. His overstrong sense of justice, but yet not quite getting how he's breaking the rules himself, the irritability. And the meltdowns. When he picked up a baseball bat and started bashing the garage floor because of a rage he couldn't control, the kicking the car doors, clenching his fists and crying, can't get his breathing under control, screaming horrible profanities at anyone who comes near (except for me, oddly enough)--it just seems beyond what I know about ADHD. When he calms, it's like nothing ever happened. I asked him if he rages at his stepmother like that, and he said no, that he couldn't because she has a baby in her tummy. So, there's some understanding there but no tools that the people in life, at school, the books we've voraciously consumed and tried to implement, have been successful at getting him to be able to get the rages under control before damage is done. </p><p></p><p>We just recently had an eighteen year old boy shot four times in the chest and killed by the police when a neighbor called the police on this obviously mentally ill young man. He came to the door with a baseball bat, and that was that. I can't tell you how much this scares me. And I'm remembering our friend on this board, too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HMBgal, post: 626314, member: 13260"] Thanks for the replies. It is helpful. Being at Kaiser, you have to take what you get. The medication doctor is more "How are things going? Here's your prescription. See you in six months." If this boy had just plain ADHD (I know there's no such thing), this wouldn't feel necessary to at least try, but the task refusal at school, the anger, the anxiety and worry he seems to be in the middle of all the time is heartbreaking. His overstrong sense of justice, but yet not quite getting how he's breaking the rules himself, the irritability. And the meltdowns. When he picked up a baseball bat and started bashing the garage floor because of a rage he couldn't control, the kicking the car doors, clenching his fists and crying, can't get his breathing under control, screaming horrible profanities at anyone who comes near (except for me, oddly enough)--it just seems beyond what I know about ADHD. When he calms, it's like nothing ever happened. I asked him if he rages at his stepmother like that, and he said no, that he couldn't because she has a baby in her tummy. So, there's some understanding there but no tools that the people in life, at school, the books we've voraciously consumed and tried to implement, have been successful at getting him to be able to get the rages under control before damage is done. We just recently had an eighteen year old boy shot four times in the chest and killed by the police when a neighbor called the police on this obviously mentally ill young man. He came to the door with a baseball bat, and that was that. I can't tell you how much this scares me. And I'm remembering our friend on this board, too. [/QUOTE]
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