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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 8yo DC has struggled with behavioral issues since Pre-K.  Had a formal eval, but no diagnosis.  We have done play therapy and parent training.  Things improved a bit in school but we have been kicked out of two summer camps for hitting this summer.  Emotional regulation is our big issue.  No one has recommended medication, but the play therapist has said DC has a lot of ADHD characteristics.  Most of the success stories I know about with ADHD or other behavioral issues seem to be paired with medication.

Has anyone had success without medication?  If so, what worked?[/quote]

Adhd in 8 year olds is very tricky to both diagnose and treat.

Before you go to pills and drugs, try real discipline and consequences for poor behavior. I know this is an unkind way of thinking, but think dog. Do this, X happens. Do that, Y happens. Whether it's loss of phone or no movie. The consequences don't really matter, as long as there are some. 8 is very malleable. Like a young dog.

The youth shrink thing is an industry. And you'll be sucked into their drugs and "therapy" forever. I would avoid them if you can. Try before they insist your kid needs their interventions.  [/quote]

Careful with this op. Of course you should be cautious, and you are. But if your child does have adhd, trying to consequence it out of them will actually just put your child at risk for comorbidity with anxiety/depression later in life because their brain actually does work differently yet you’re treating them like they can respond to the consequence the same/cause and effect and when they don’t - making their self worth often super low. It’s one of the big reasons adhd is often cobmorbid with anxiety and depression later because kids get so much negative feedback. So while there are a lot of negative things said in popular culture and bias out there about meds, if it gives your child’s brain more space and less negative feedback it can be super positive and pay dividends over time. Nothing is perfect - but there is positive emerging research that starting meds early rewires the brain in a lot of ways.

Because some kids have been misdiagnosed in the past doesn’t mean you should avoid a diagnosis and the appropriate treatment (first line and most effective is meds) if your child does in fact have ADHD (which we don’t know at this point). [/quote]

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