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I think my four year old has ADHD, everyone else thinks I'm crazy.....
I was recently diagnosed with ADD about 6 months ago. Most people think a diagnoses is a bad thing, I personally take it as a blessing. It made my life make so much more sense than it did. I felt as if I was different my whole life and I was. I chose not to let my diagnoses hinder me. My husband has also been diagnosed with Acute Anxiety and Depression. I think he started treatment before it got to its absolute worst. I will admit he was sometimes almost unbearable, but I learned to adjust to him and his everyday mantrums. lol. I know we have both made a very positive and significant change in our lives. We both have become so adjusted to the way things were, that we actually see each other in a different but good way. Now.......
Meet Izabelle...... Izzy is our bright and beautiful 4 year old. She is very smart. (almost reading, she can write, spell some words, etc) She loves the Beatles and knows all their songs, and so much you would never expect a four year old to know. She has been enrolled in a private school preschool since she was 2. Just within the last couple of months she has been acting out beyond belief. She is a angel in school. Only once has her teacher said anything about her having a "emotional day" and that was today. Every night its a battle to get her to go to sleep, and sometimes it progresses to her kicking her bedroom door and screaming. She is stomping her feet and whinning ALL THE TIME. She does not have little tantrums for a few minutes and move on, she dwells for hours. She never would behave this way in front of some people; but recently she is doing it in front of almost everyone, except at school. I have talked to her teacher and director and they look at me like I am crazy when I tell them how she behaves when not on school property.. lol
I think she has ADHD with a touch of ODD. I think I am the only one who feels this way but Grandma's do not have to go through bedtime, bathtime and everything else I experience with her on a regular basis. My husband is coming around to the idea that maybe she is but I dont know what to do. I took her to see my therapist who said she was showing signs of onset depression, onset ADD and ODD. He gave her a prescription for a antidepressant and behavior therapy but it do not agree with him. Her regular doctor has scheduled a appt with someone else and I am glad but am I crazy? Do I have a rotten child?
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15 Nov 2010 @ 11:18 PM
16 Nov 2010 @ 12:42 AM
