SPD with anxiety looking for advice

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We can arm chair diagnose all we like of what it sounds like. Gee, maybe the op could get an evaluation--a real one this time and not one for "spd."

You might be the least helpful person on this forum. Does it make you feel better about your own life
to shame people with sarcasm? It’s been less than a month ongoing. She met with the teacher and is taking her to see a therapist. There is no need to go immediately to a neuropsych eval.

A neuropsych won't be immediate. It's not like you can schedule them like a manicure. The op describes ongoing issues for year starting with seeing a need to get her "evaluated" for SPD at age 4. She doesn't know what she's looking at and neither do any of us. No one can diagnose your kid over the internet. That's the point.

She is going to a therapist for an evaluation. If you had a sharp pain in your shoulder, I'd say go see a doctor, not get an MRI. If you had the pain for 5 years, I'd still say go see a doctor.

It seems like your point is really that everyone should spend $4,000 on a neuropsych or wait six months to get it under insurance at Children's, but in no case should someone spend $200 to get some professional advice before doing either of those things.

Getting professional advice is fine. Intake appointment for a psychologist/therapist will run about $400 and around $200 per appointment. They don't "evaluate."

Why do you think pyschologists don't "evaluate"? Of course they evaluate. There are levels and kinds of evaluation, and it's ok (good practice, even) to go step by step.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We can arm chair diagnose all we like of what it sounds like. Gee, maybe the op could get an evaluation--a real one this time and not one for "spd."

You might be the least helpful person on this forum. Does it make you feel better about your own life
to shame people with sarcasm? It’s been less than a month ongoing. She met with the teacher and is taking her to see a therapist. There is no need to go immediately to a neuropsych eval.

A neuropsych won't be immediate. It's not like you can schedule them like a manicure. The op describes ongoing issues for year starting with seeing a need to get her "evaluated" for SPD at age 4. She doesn't know what she's looking at and neither do any of us. No one can diagnose your kid over the internet. That's the point.

She is going to a therapist for an evaluation. If you had a sharp pain in your shoulder, I'd say go see a doctor, not get an MRI. If you had the pain for 5 years, I'd still say go see a doctor.

It seems like your point is really that everyone should spend $4,000 on a neuropsych or wait six months to get it under insurance at Children's, but in no case should someone spend $200 to get some professional advice before doing either of those things.

Getting professional advice is fine. Intake appointment for a psychologist/therapist will run about $400 and around $200 per appointment. They don't "evaluate."

Have you ever been to a therapist? What do you think the first thing they do is?