Post by wondamum on Oct 22, 2017 14:48:01 GMT
Hi All,
I’ve just signed up on here to hopefully get some support and advice.
Firstly I feel so confused.
Here’s my story...
My son is 13, and probably from the age of 5/6 he started to become overwhelmed with things, school situations, friendships. He struggled with right and wrong, always wanting wools to do the right thing and if they didn’t he would become frustrated, he also took/takes the slightest thing to heart, causing him distress. I used to pick him up from school and he would just expolode with all this built up frustration, he would kick the back of the car car and scream and cry, I used to let him get it all out as I felt it better than bottling it up. He struggled through primary school with aniexty and the work, has always been untied and bite his nails and I started to wonder if he had ADHD when he was around 9/10 years old, but the teachers didn’t think so. I worked with him on his self esteem and resilience hoping that would help. He gets obsessed by things if he thinks he needs a blue jumper, he will search and search until he finds it and will go on and on relentlessly. He has huge mood swings he’s the funniest loving little boy and in a flash he’s moody crying angry and depressed. As he’s got older, he’s been on report 5 times at secondary school for low level disputation and forgetting homework. He can be stubborn and argumentative and we struggle to reason with him. He escalate s so quickly, he’s currently sleeping because he’s been so angry today he’s exhausted. I did one of those on line ADHD test and he came out 94%. I just wondered if anyone else thinks I’m right and he does have ADHD and if so, is there any recommendations on how I can help him. Thank you in advance.
I’ve just signed up on here to hopefully get some support and advice.
Firstly I feel so confused.
Here’s my story...
My son is 13, and probably from the age of 5/6 he started to become overwhelmed with things, school situations, friendships. He struggled with right and wrong, always wanting wools to do the right thing and if they didn’t he would become frustrated, he also took/takes the slightest thing to heart, causing him distress. I used to pick him up from school and he would just expolode with all this built up frustration, he would kick the back of the car car and scream and cry, I used to let him get it all out as I felt it better than bottling it up. He struggled through primary school with aniexty and the work, has always been untied and bite his nails and I started to wonder if he had ADHD when he was around 9/10 years old, but the teachers didn’t think so. I worked with him on his self esteem and resilience hoping that would help. He gets obsessed by things if he thinks he needs a blue jumper, he will search and search until he finds it and will go on and on relentlessly. He has huge mood swings he’s the funniest loving little boy and in a flash he’s moody crying angry and depressed. As he’s got older, he’s been on report 5 times at secondary school for low level disputation and forgetting homework. He can be stubborn and argumentative and we struggle to reason with him. He escalate s so quickly, he’s currently sleeping because he’s been so angry today he’s exhausted. I did one of those on line ADHD test and he came out 94%. I just wondered if anyone else thinks I’m right and he does have ADHD and if so, is there any recommendations on how I can help him. Thank you in advance.