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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I think people aren't really getting your rant. Once you have acknowledged whatever it is she is obsessing on sympathetically it is perfectly okay to change the subject. If she doesn't get the hint just leave the room. Or give her a chore to do so she has to leave the room. [/quote]

Well OP’s frustration is valid but I’ll tell you what, once your kid gets a diagnosis and you learn about the issue and finally understand what’s going on in their heads, it’s so, so much easier to deal with them. So I think it’s very likely that the best thing OP can do to get rid of her frustration is to get a neuropsych evaluation. [/quote]
+1 So much!

My DD was obsessed with "getting on meds".  I had tried every natural remedy, sleep, diet, therapy, acupuncture, etc.  After consulting with her medicated friend at school, she then told her therapist that she "got out of the shower and there was blood on her legs, she didn't remember cutting herself...."

The therapist asked to see, but she "didn't want to take off her boots; too hard"  so the therapist didn't push.  The therapist called me and I was like, "What? She's walking around in shorts; this is a total fabrication!"

And the therapist and I agreed on this:  "If it's true, she needs a psych eval.  If it's a lie, she needs a psych eval."

The psych eval was the BEST THING that happened to both of us in the course of me raising this child.  My kid says she felt finally "seen."  It's been a few years now, and she is a first-year at a T10 university and doing well.  She's "adulting" which is so huge and I am grateful every day; I almost cannot believe we are at this good place!

I also learned a lot.  I learned how to see how she was atypical.  I learned how certain meds work and in that process, came to accept how they could be helpful and I wasn't just "giving up and putting a difficult child on meds so I could have some peace."

There is no harm (other than time and $) in you and your kid learning more about how their brain works, and you learning more about how to deal with them.[/quote]

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