News of Oppositional Defiant Disorder Forum

I had no idea that there was a forum for this! I'm happy to find it, and sad that we're here. My 10-y-o dd was diagnosed with ODD and Reactive Attachment Disorder a few years ago. She is very violent and abusive.

I have 20 units of child development in college, I have read The Explosive Child, we've been in therapy for 6 years. She just keeps getting worse.

The therapy is a joke. She ...

I had some early concerns when he was about two, but at two it's difficult anyway lol.

When he turned 3 his pediatrician expressed some concerns himself as just getting him into the office was/is a battle, he referred him for an evaluation, but I held off on it because he was going to be starting preschool in a few weeks and wanted to see if they raised any concerns, within a month his teacher ...

I am new to the forum. I have a 6 1/2 year old son who has been diagnosed with ADHD and ODD. I love my son very much and want to help him the best I can. Background : I am a single dad in the military I have had custody of my son for 2 years. My son is currently on 30mg Vavanse (not sure how to spell it.) His ADHD is bad he ...

Hi, Im new here. My name is Tarina. I have 2 children..........son who is aged 8 yrs old and daughter who is almost 7 yrs old. My daughter is fine however, my son has ADHD and I beleive ODD. He may have bits and piece's of other traits as well. He is not on medication (as yet!)............we are in the stages of try to work out what to do. I am seeing a Physc and ...

Hi all,
I have an 11 year old son who is acting up at school. His behaviour has got steddily worse and over the last year I am having more and more contact from school to say he is misbehaving more often.
He will talk when told not to, blurts out answers without waiting for the question to be finished, he will leave class when he isn't supposed to, he will deliberatly annoy people sitting ...

I am seeing if anyone has had experience with Willow Springs Center in Nevada, or Youthcare in Utah, both residential treatment centers.
This is our last hope for my 14 year old ADHD/ODD son.
I am terrified and heartbroken at having finally come to the decision to place him at one of these facilities, but the alternative is much worse Im afraid.
Please, if anyone has had experience, heard anything good or bad with these ...

I am really curious about this process. When a child is being treated (or seen by a professional) for ODD, does the parent get progress reports, or anything of the like? Or do they just have one-on-one sessions with the doctor to talk about the child's progress?

My sister has been diagnosed with severe depression and ODD. She's been in and out of courts for skipping school and trespassing on school property and now she's in jail for contempt in the courts. They're trying to get her committed to a psych ward.

What do we do?? We can't get her to do anything and this is only getting worse even though she's seeing a psychologist. She's extremely into natural stuff and won't ...

Sorry for the crappy title. lol

Hi everyone, I found this site by accident looking for something different but from looking around I feel like it may be the place for me. I've been wanting to express myself for sometime now but never knew who, or how to do it.

I'm 17, a teenager, you know how it is, we RARELY talk about our problems with our parents. For me, I find it really difficult ...

he is very violent and his temper is just awful he smashes things up brakes things hits out at myself and his siblings every night and morning is a struggle he spits at me or just spits any were he wants swears but the thing that hes started to do that i find the worst of all is his sexual laungage he will say some disgusting things he is 8 yrs old he does see ...