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Reactive Attachment Disorder – a diagnosis

Turns out, all this time I thought that David was diagnosed with RAD. Nope. Well he is now. Frustrating when people remove and add diagnoses without letting the family know. He has Autism, Borderline Personality Disorder, Bipolar, AdHd, and quite a few others. Reactive Attachment Disorder *RAD” is now one of his Axis I diagnoses. Received a referral to a child therapist. Received a referral to a Social Skills Play Group. The psychiatrist said “boy, he does talk a lot… when did that start?” My response was “he has been like this since the day he came home. Follow up every 30 days for the next while. One other thing of importance. He is in the lower 18 percentile, for his weight. this means that for his age and height, 82% of the population is more inline with the standard then he is. oh and he is at risk of

Attention Seeking RAD

I tend to forget, and I shouldn’t. Every action is designed to get attention. Every behavior is designed to get attention. I asked him this morning, “what do you gain from this behavior?” His answer? “I don’t know” —————— I wish that he did. I would much rather award positive behavior, than the negative that we have been seeing. Still, everything considered he is doing better than before he went to the residential facility. Of course, are are nearing the end of what is typically the honeymoon period. His honeymoon typically lasts 6 weeks. ———- Last night I was giving him his meds, he had a glass of water. he acted like it was slipping out of his hand, water sloshing around, above the rim… nearly soaked my laptop. So I called him on it. Thus beginning an hour of negative behaviors. All because I told him to set

Reactive Attachment Disorder

I found this video through a group I belong to on facebook. It explains so much about children like our son David. Not every adopted child will be afflicted with this disorder, though quite a few are. I did not create the video. I don’t claim ownership of the video. I am merely sharing content with my readers. Tweet #fighting4answrs