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<blockquote data-quote="wintak" data-source="post: 428242" data-attributes="member: 11938"><p>wow...never thought about a stimulant. He TELLS me (and let's remember this kid lies about everything) that he LIKES to hear the noises and he LIKES how his fist on his hip feels and that's why he does it, but after reading these responses, that's what a stimulant is. Do I have that right? It feels good to them, like a comfort thing? </p><p>I don't believe he's seen a neuropsychologist. He sees the head of the peds psychiatric at the childrens hospital and she diagnosis him with mood disorder and severe ADHD</p><p></p><p>He's been on concerta for 5 mos and it was upped at 3 weeks because the ADHD was so bad. risperdal has been also 5 mos but has been upped 4x believe. She started VERY low because he's a small kid (he's 8 and not 4' tall yet and just 50lbs).</p><p></p><p>SHe told me risperdal would make him sleepy and after trials of when to give it to him, we found it does not. There is a question of whether his metabolism is eating the medications up so very quickly. I gave him ritalin one night at 6pm against dr orders because as a family we were going somewhere where I needed the ADHD to chill and I was willing to take the chance that he wouldn't go to sleep 2 hours later cuz the ritalin was still in full swing. But alas, that kid fell asleep like a rock even with the ritalin in him..but I digress.</p><p></p><p>so if I'm getting this right, the stims or tics might be a way for him to cope with some sort of anxiety or stress. And if that's the issue, then we need to find out the anxiety or the stressor? That oughta be fun since he lies about everything, everything is fine and he does this 100% of the time. My original post said he even did this at book time at night...to a typical child (which he's not, I get) this is nothing to get anxious about. So why would this make difficult child anxious?</p><p></p><p>You guys are great...I have appts with his therapist and his psychiatric this week and I feel like I can go in with some info to pose careful questions.</p><p></p><p>But this is like pandora's box now...holy cow. So I have a mood disorder, severe ADHD kid who may or may not have tics or stims because he may or may not have some anxiety in his life (he says he doesn't, he tells the therapists and dr's that he feels things are getting BETTER at home) who lies constantly (saw him limping the other day, asked why he was limping what was wrong is he ok etc...I'm fine, nothing hurts etc. I get frustrated and I raise my voice..BUT YOU'RE LIMPING...about an hour later he admits that his foot hurts), acts like a 2-3 year old, has the emotional capacity of that same age, the intellectual ability of his stated age and drives everyone in the family crazy. Oh and possible Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)????</p><p></p><p>I don't know how you all with teens made it this far. He's only 8 and I'm ready to check out, I'm so frustrated. Kudos to you all!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wintak, post: 428242, member: 11938"] wow...never thought about a stimulant. He TELLS me (and let's remember this kid lies about everything) that he LIKES to hear the noises and he LIKES how his fist on his hip feels and that's why he does it, but after reading these responses, that's what a stimulant is. Do I have that right? It feels good to them, like a comfort thing? I don't believe he's seen a neuropsychologist. He sees the head of the peds psychiatric at the childrens hospital and she diagnosis him with mood disorder and severe ADHD He's been on concerta for 5 mos and it was upped at 3 weeks because the ADHD was so bad. risperdal has been also 5 mos but has been upped 4x believe. She started VERY low because he's a small kid (he's 8 and not 4' tall yet and just 50lbs). SHe told me risperdal would make him sleepy and after trials of when to give it to him, we found it does not. There is a question of whether his metabolism is eating the medications up so very quickly. I gave him ritalin one night at 6pm against dr orders because as a family we were going somewhere where I needed the ADHD to chill and I was willing to take the chance that he wouldn't go to sleep 2 hours later cuz the ritalin was still in full swing. But alas, that kid fell asleep like a rock even with the ritalin in him..but I digress. so if I'm getting this right, the stims or tics might be a way for him to cope with some sort of anxiety or stress. And if that's the issue, then we need to find out the anxiety or the stressor? That oughta be fun since he lies about everything, everything is fine and he does this 100% of the time. My original post said he even did this at book time at night...to a typical child (which he's not, I get) this is nothing to get anxious about. So why would this make difficult child anxious? You guys are great...I have appts with his therapist and his psychiatric this week and I feel like I can go in with some info to pose careful questions. But this is like pandora's box now...holy cow. So I have a mood disorder, severe ADHD kid who may or may not have tics or stims because he may or may not have some anxiety in his life (he says he doesn't, he tells the therapists and dr's that he feels things are getting BETTER at home) who lies constantly (saw him limping the other day, asked why he was limping what was wrong is he ok etc...I'm fine, nothing hurts etc. I get frustrated and I raise my voice..BUT YOU'RE LIMPING...about an hour later he admits that his foot hurts), acts like a 2-3 year old, has the emotional capacity of that same age, the intellectual ability of his stated age and drives everyone in the family crazy. Oh and possible Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)???? I don't know how you all with teens made it this far. He's only 8 and I'm ready to check out, I'm so frustrated. Kudos to you all! [/QUOTE]
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