How does a person cope with an ADHD & bipolar child?

Question

Seven year old boy. Bipolar shows as aggressive. Give some ideas please.

Answer 1

I suggest outside help. A psychiatrist, and ask him or her about how to deal with it. Or read up on bipolarity and ADHD.

Answer 2

When I was 7, I was a math prodigy and my energy was focused on math and academics. Now, I'm bipolar and on this forum.

Give the 7 year old something to do: academics, sports, etc. Take him off medication because the school is an institution which knows medication and nothing else. Change schools if possible. With something to do (at home, in school, et al), his aggression will go by the wayside and he will be a happier kid.

Answer 3

omg! please email me at [e-mail]! or go my to 360 page. i also have a 7 year old little boy that has done a complete 360 this year. last year student of the month, this year in trouble everyday. he is angry and depressed, and just a sad little guy. this is killing me because he isn't the sweet little guy he has always been. since a month ago he has already been on adderal, and depakote, which i took him off of. yesterday the doc put him on Ritalin and he takes clonodine for sleep. i am having a heck of a tome finding a therapist that doesn't have a long waiting list..i don't know the doc says he Had ADD,bipolar, and a mood disorder...i have bipolar as well and have to get my meds changes because they don't work for me, so that has been hard enough. he also had 2 younger sisters which the 3 year old he is kinda mean to but my 7 month old he just adores. he breaks things on purpose, he back talks, says he hates me, is almost getting to the detention point in school..i am at my wits end. his father who i was with the first 5 yrs of mt sons life that has weekend visits with him say he has hardly any problems with him....i don't know what to do as well....

Answer 4

confident. Social rigidity and Paranoia pass hand and hand. severe self conciousness notably lots. OCD and ADHD are notably lots an identical undertaking. OCD is taking your techniques removed from what you would be concentrated on. anyhow, whilst i became into youthful, I had OCD (counting, touching issues, having to do rituals) Panic assaults (flight or combat reaction) Social rigidity (uneasy in specific social situtions, being the focal factor, blushing) and severe melancholy (dozing all day/no longer being happy and taking section in daily activities). I took Paxil it is an SSRI and it helped all my warning signs very much. What facilitates on precise of it is exercising, ingesting purely whilst your hungry, no longer overeating, and getting a great nights sleep. besides as making specific your getting adequate supplementations. i might propose a multi nutrition and mabye a B 50 complicated. All that blended notably lots have been given rid of all of it, different than the first issues, i became into nevertheless a splash fearful in the previous shows and so on, yet a minimum of I wasn't basically skipping the class so i does not ought to do it. and that i ought to get exhilaration from daily stuff. i found out years later I had celiac affliction, so as that definately contributed to my melancholy and rigidity. I wasn't assume to be ingesting any bread products because of the fact it ruins my intenstines and stopped me digesting supplementations and carbs/fat/proteins. you additionally can see a naturopath and carry on with a nutrition treatment regiment. it is costly, besides the fact that it additionally works.

Answer 5

I would read a book on Oppositional Defiant Disorder which is usually the first signs of bipolar disorder in children. Reading these books helped me learn how to deal with an ODD family member as well as dealing with my children, because all children do go through periods/phases of ODD. It teaches you how ODD/Bipolar children see things in their minds and what the best way of dealing with them is as well as slowly teaching them how to cope with themselves. Good luck!