Category Archives: antisocial personality disorder

Day 2 the evening. ~ frustrated

Well, everyone is home with our son and I.  Five kids plus my wife and I.  Our son seems to be content with pushing as many buttons as possible all evening long. Time-outs aren’t working.  Quiet time isn’t working. He just wants to push push push.  Every one is getting frustrated. I wish that they hadn’t been forced to take him off of the clozeril.  Things are going to be much rougher than they were when he was in the residential facility.  We did home visits and all of that before he was discharged and these behaviours weren’t in evidence at that time. Trying to cope. He isn’t like this during the day time when it is just him and I. ========= An hour later, we covered him completely with the blanket.  Maybe too much input, as he is fine now.  He has stopped pushing buttons and is relaxed. Tweet

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Day 2 ~ Much better ~ or Butterflies and more.

Day two started out very well. No eruptions or complaints. Got a call from the psych nurse regarding missing the blood draw yesterday. She was very grumpy. I understand that there is a protocol to follow with the blood work for his meds, but what can I do if the people who draw blood are not at work? Draw it myself? I tried to explain that we live in a town of less than 1700 people and don’t have all of the resources of the big city. So we went to lab this morning. Our son was sure a trooper about it. He pointed out the best spot to take blood from his arm, and then asked if they could use a butterfly needle. He watched the whole thing from start to finish and never complained once, even when the veined rolled and they didn’t get blood with the first

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>theft from the dr.

>M got caught three separate times trying to steal toys from his psychiatrist. Psychiatrist told him that if he didn’t stop eventually he would get put in a jail. And that he could get sent there as early as age 11. He also spoke at length about M’s meds, his behaviors, and anti-social personality disorder. He can’t diagnose an antisocial personality disorder until the age of 18, but agrees that all of the signs are there for that eventual diagnosis. The doctor also told us that at some point, M will need to be institutionalized to protect him from himself, and to protect other people from M’s behaviors. We have been told that before. At the age of 9, it is too early to be looking at long term placement. Our goal has always been to do what is best for M. At this point, we are doing everything we

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