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Please help if have advice or know of similar scenario: Our 12 year old daughter is in 6th grad, is a very high achiever in school. Tested into all advanced-placement classes, loves being on student council, has been highly self-driven since she was 3 or 4 years old. school is her solace and she thrives in church youth groups. Since she was a kindergardener up until know in 6th grade we have heard over and ...

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My girlfriend of a few months has a son that has been diagnosed with ADHD/ODD. He is on multiple medications (don't know which ones by name, I know a stimulant, a meth, and a couple others). The issue I have is that he displays symptoms that seem outside the realms of the typical adhd/odd diagnosis. I come from a family riddled with mental disease (bi-polar, borderline, manic, etc.) so I am familiar with many ...

The doctors that treat o.d.d. don't know the underline reason for the beahovor. I have o.d.d. and i will tell you what cause me to have o.d.d.. o.d.d. it not a power struggle it a struggle to be treated with respect buy there parents. i am highly gifted person with some disabitlys. and when you have a disibally people treat you different. this is an offensive behavior to the disable child. when a child say ...

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Is there any standardized test or a series of tests that can help to confirm ODD on a given person?

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My daughter is 4 years old & in preschool. She has been very defiant for over 6 months now. Whenever she started acting up, it didnt worry me as much because I thought to myself, ok, I need to be more consistent, or try different ways of punishments, talking to her, etc. I told her doctor about what was going on, and she told me it sounded like oppositional defiant disorder. She wanted to refer ...

My counselor has suggested that I look into oppositional defiance. Of course, the first thing I learned is that it's considered a childhood condition. But if anything, mine appears to have increased in adulthood. Is that possible/likely? Should I be looking for something different?

Some backstory: I grew up in a good two-parent family, no trauma that I'm dealing with. My IQ is about 160, and I tested at the 8th grade level when I ...

Tough Love: Abuse of a type particularly gratifying to the abuser, in that it combines the pleasures of sadism with those of self-righteousness. Commonly employed and widely admired in boot camps and treatment for troubled youth.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his ...

Tough Love: Abuse of a type particularly gratifying to the abuser, in that it combines the pleasures of sadism with those of self-righteousness. Commonly employed and widely admired in boot camps and treatment for troubled youth.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his ...

Teens benefit from a kind of education that is unlike other schools. Small classes allow dedicated instructors to really understand their students. Instructors care not just about their own limited academic subjects, but about developing the whole person. Cadets start off as good followers, and end up as great leaders...

Don't belive this line of garbage. Private boot camps, all use the same abusive methods, they offer programs as "quick-fix solutions" for the children of ...

My live in boyfriend has a son that has ADHD and ODD. He takes anti-psychotic and ADHD meds (I forget the names right now). He is not allowed to go to a regular school due to his behavior and goes to a school with only 3 other kids in the classroom. He has just turned 10 and has been kicked out of 6 daycares over the last 7 years due to behavior.

I have a ...