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It has been a month or so now since Corey started seeing Julie a child therapist.  She is really good with him and has probably got the best relationship with him than we’ve had with previous psychologists and psychiatrists.  Corey is at least attending the sessions and talking to her – more than he did with the others.

Although we haven’t had any changes in Corey’s behaviour yet, she is delving into his thoughts and trying to see how he thinks, which no-one has ever done before.

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Last week we had a reasonably good week with Corey or at least about as good as you can get with Coreys behavior issues.  He wanted a sleepover on Friday night so he was trying hard to be good so he could have the sleepover which he did have.  All day Saturday he was reasonably well behaved too.  Until…….

Saturday night we decided to go and get Chinese for dinner.  The change in Corey was incredible.  We’ve never been able to pinpoint any exact food that seems to set Corey off until now.  It’s possible that he’d been good for a week so was due for a bad change anyway, so perhaps it may have happened and it wasn’t the food, but it is strange that the timing of it was just after he’d eaten Chinese for dinner.

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This morning Corey and I had our first visit with the CAMHS therapist Julie.  CAMHS stands for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service and Julie is a School Support Therapist.

I wasn’t sure how this visit was going to go but I am really happy now after the visit, it went really well.  Julie was really good with Corey and he did open up a bit and talk to her.  Being our first visit we went in together but in the future she will want sessions with just Corey, maybe some with just me and some with both of us.

Corey seemed to relate to her quite well which is a huge thing when it comes to therapists because if he takes a disliking to them he will just refuse to speak to them EVER.  But he seemed to like her so that is off to a good start.

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I have just been so busy lately that I haven’t had much time to write on here so here goes for my weeks wrap up.

Tuesday – this is the day that I had a meeting with the school counsellor, a lady from the education department and Corey’s teacher.  This is also the day that Corey decided to wake up in a foul mood and absolutely refused to go to school.

I’ll talk about the Corey situation first.  I don’t know if he just woke up in a foul mood, whether me having this meeting at school was on his mind (although I hadn’t really mentioned it much) or what the reason was for his behavior, but on Tuesday morning it was terrible.  He was foul right from the moment he got up, then when I was in the shower I heard Lachlan screaming, then Lochie ran through to my room and refused to go out and get ready for school because he was too scared Corey would hurt him.  Apparently the scream was because Corey had hit him across the face.  Read the rest of this entry »

Our neighbours are fairly quiet and generally keep to themselves, except Jeff (let’s just call him Jeff so as not to use real names) who will come over and chat away whenever he is drunk.  Any other time he keeps to himself mostly.

So last night he had a few drinks and was a bit tipsy to say the least, so over he came.  The kids and I were outside playing basketball at the time.  So Jeff comes over and starts talking about Corey.  How Corey obviously has problems and so do I with him.  Then he starts going on about how I need to just stay calm and actually when he is being naughty I should send him over to his house because he is really good with kids and kids just seem to like him for some reason.

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Hug Therapy

When Corey gets into one of his rages I really can’t stand to watch him like that.  Sometimes he just gets so upset that I think he’s going to explode if he doesn’t stop yelling and screaming like that.

For example, last night him and Ben just wouldn’t stop fighting.  My husband just got to the stage that he’d had enough and told them both to go and have a shower and go to bed – it was only around 7pm at the time.  Corey just went crazy and lost it completely, no way was he going to have a shower and go to bed that early.

Of course Corey isn’t going to give in but neither is my husband and my husband completely refused to leave Coreys room until Corey agreed to go and have a shower.  Which of course he wouldn’t and the longer my husband stood there the more Corey would scream.

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Well the kids are all off to school so I have some peace and quiet to come on here and write another post.  If you have read my blog in the past you will know that I’ve had a lot of problems with my middle boy Corey, which was the reason for me starting this blog, I guess just to have somewhere where I can come in and vent my frustrations.

Since starting this blog I have had a number of emails from Mothers with similar issues, with kids that have behavior problems and can’t seem to find a solution to them.  Some with ODD, some with ADHD and some with Aspergers and then some, like Corey, that can’t seem to get a diagnosis.

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ADHD or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders is a disorder that seems to be on the rise in recent years. There certainly seems to be many more children diagnosed with this disorder these days than in previous years. It isn’t completely known for the reason that is has increased but could be that we have more knowledge of the disorder and are therefore able to diagnose it as opposed to many years ago or perhaps it could be related to the number of additives and preservatives that we eat and the increasing levels of pollutants in the air that we breathe.

Regardless of the cause of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder the fact is that many children are being diagnosed with it and as a parent it is important that you arm yourself with as much information about ADHD as you can. Read the rest of this entry »