Levi Lyda
Posted on 06/01/2023 10:50:29 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The mother of the Oklahoma girl who fatally stabbed her younger brother to death earlier this year in a “demonic” rage said the pre-teen “never had behavioral issues” in the past and blamed the attack on the effects of medication.
Heartbroken mother April Lyda shared an update about the family this week after her 12-year-old daughter, whose name has not been shared publicly, stabbed her brother, Zander, 9, in the chest on Jan. 5 at the family’s home in Tulsa’s St. Thomas Square neighborhood.
The siblings “loved each other and always got along until the very end,” she wrote on a GoFundMe page.
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What a sick bastard.
“ said they were not for psychiatric purposes.
She said her daughter was taken off the medication again when she started cutting herself, but “it was too late, the damage was done.””
Maybe they should have been psych meds but it WASNT
Nope, you just raised an evil violent kid.
Excitable Boy
“The siblings “loved each other and always got along...”
Apparently, not so much.
The girl is not genetically a product of her step-father. It is the drugs that caused her violent bahavior.
Kind of hard to tell when you don’t know the meds. But it seems now a days you don’t need to be a psychiatrist to prescribe anti depressants.
Oops, Excitable Girl.
and there is the linage. Knew there was more to this story.
The boy was his, but he is the step-father to the girl.
Makes me wonder about the relationship between the step-dad and step-daughter, and maybe the step-daughter took it out on the boy. Pure, unsupported speculation on my part.
anything is possible now a days
Ping!
Thanks for the update. I still maintain that she more exhibited the signs of RAD. One of the key signs to me was her concerns were only about her situation, not her brother. She did express she hoped he was OK, but it was always based on what effect his injuries or death might have on her, not him. Another key sign is the self harm. And if she did have undiagnosed or misdiagnosed RAD, then putting her on ADHD meds likely only exacerbated the issues. I am curious who made the decision to put her on ADHD drugs. 6 in 10 kids are being misdiagnosed with ADHD instead of RAD or other developmental trauma related disorders. Here’s why it matters: Stimulant medications typically given for ADHD can exacerbate other symptoms the child is experiencing; and a misdiagnosis of ADHD when the child has RAD can cause significant delays in the child getting the treatment they need.
I still maintain this child has Reactive Attachment Disorder and was misdiagnosed and put on stimulants which exacerbated her condition causing the self harm and the homicidal ideations that led to the murder of her brother. That is why she kept saying, “I don’t know what happened.” She doesn’t. This kid is going to be messed up, maybe for life. Just so sad. I wish more attention was paid to RAD symptoms.
She may indeed have RAD. She may have ADHD, and/or seasonal allergies that precipitate hyperactivity; and she may have both, or none, or other possible co-morbidities—because obviously raising healthy children was not uppermost in the efforts of any of her parent figures.
You’ve been studying RAD lately, and to a hammer, everything looks like a nail. I think humans are infinitely individual, and their treatment ideally would take many factors into account; but it’s going to take more than mere psychologists to help this critically neglected child.
God bless the poor girl. I do hope there is a chaplain wherever she goes; since her life here on earth is so severely damaged. But there is a Savior to love her and give her rest.
Honestly, I have not studied RAD in probably 15 years, but I have had a fair amount of experience in dealing with kids with RAD. As a former prosecutor, I dealt with several cases of kids with RAD. And in private practice, I represented, as guardian ad litem, a few kids with RAD. So I’m inferring from the information presented in the news articles, and based on my experience, and my education (undergrad degree in psych) that this is a RAD situation. Obviously, all of us are inferring or speculating based on news stories, but RAD makes the most sense to me. Unless she actually has ASPD. Which I hope isn’t the case as there is no real effective treatment for ASPD. But there is for RAD.
Doesn’t seem like ASPD to me, or she might not have been saying, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry” in a plaintive tone. Poor, poor girl.
It’s interesting to think more about RAD; thanks for the prompts. I whizzed through the original Bowlby works on attachment in the mid-95s for my grad work—I may still have those books around here and might have a deeper look.
Levi Lyda
Fried brain from heavy drugs most likely.
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