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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]13:52 again -- my DD wasn't hyperactive either, though sometimes she talks a lot -- that was her "H".  She had meltdowns because she was working so hard to keep it together at school.  Also she often lost things, which stressed her out.  But as i wrote, ADHD was only half the equation, anxiety was the other.  Depression can also show up like this in children.

Don't beat yourself up about accommodating her.  Its so so hard not to when all you want is peace in the kingdom.  Of course, its self-defeating in the long run but its not like you made a decision to do this, it just happened piece by piece.  Once you find out if there is a diagnosis you might work with a behaviorist.  You can't tackle everything at once but one at a time you can have a much calmer home life.[/quote]

My DS is also like this.  He's primarily inattentive (eg not hyperactive) and we had never considered it when trying to find out what was going on because DS didn't fit what I thought ADHD was.  I was incredibly wrong and now that I know more about it, I can see he's got a pretty classic case of it (minus the hyperactivity).  He, too, has anxiety and for a period of about 9 months, we had to treat it with medication.  When his anxiety is high, he's extremely irritable and his moods change quickly. It was interfering with his life so much and making ALL of us miserable.

I don't know if this is what's going on with your DD but I wouldn't rule it out.[/quote]

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