Posted on 01/03/2018 6:21:18 PM PST by aimhigh
trolls?
Everything is considered a psychiatric disability. Read Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
In there you will find, among others: mathematical disorder; writing disorder; public speaking disorder. Check it out of the library sometime, and you’ll be shocked and amazed, and maybe amused.
Essentially what happens is that some psychiatrist somewhere is treating some oddball “disorder”, and enters into a deal with others who are treating other, equally ridiculous disorders, and they all support each other so as to get the “disorders” included in the DSM.
DSM5 has 947 pages. DSM2 which came out in 1968, had 140 pages.
I heard of oppositional defiant disorder years ago. I also heard of RAD - reactive attachment disorder - and both of these were in relation to children adopted at later ages - my youngest didn’t come to live with us until she was 5 1/2. RAD, we were told, is more common in children who have been shuffled from one foster care placement to another, attaching and then losing that family, attaching again, losing that family - over and over. So finally they don’t attach, and can be super friendly with total strangers but really distant with their adoptive family.
Some RAD kids were also diagnosed with ODD. Just a different perspective on this subject - our daughter is fine and now a mom and a really good one, at that. :-)
So happy to read how it turned out for her and you! I was involved with my niece who the geniuses tried to claim was ODD but I just couldn’t see how as her behavior suggested something different. Fast forward many years and much anguish and I stumbled upon RAD and it all made sense. It’s a tough one and she is slowly getting ‘better’.
I’m glad your niece is getting better. It truly does take time.
We had some rough years - ROUGH. I used to say trying to meet her needs was like trying to fill up a swimming pool with a colander.
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