Quote From: shawnylouMy lil 8 year old boy has the best smile on earth and the most precious face. He has been talking steadily since he was born making all sorts of sounds and babble ,he has the imagination of a future author to be and can go to any world in his mind. His large motor skills are beyong those of his age, his small motor skills are behind by at least 2-3 years and he is just starting to learn to read. He has just learned to hold a pencil.
This is his DX: He is BI-POLAR, Attachment disorder, ODD, and possibly early on-set shizophrenia. Is there a possibility if border line autism? Maybe. He has a high IQ and is cunning.
He has serious asthma and is on madications for that is advair, albuteral zyrtac and a nose spray nasennex.[ he has a nebulizer when things get too bad In psychiatric meds, he has lamictal ,clonidine Seroquel and when he gets so violent he will kill you and anyone he comes in contact with, we do GIVE HIM ketamine *K* as the physicians call this hard medication. He is alergic to everything as is his brother. he is an active kid and loves the outdoors and bike and rides and runs around and screams and plays harder than most. His older brother age 13 is not violent and is calm and .
The 8 year old is in a special school with a room if he acts up that is padded for the school staff to put him into so he does not hurt himself or anyone else.
Remember he is a precious child when not inflamed with hate and anger fear.
he has beat me and kicked me so hard I had bruises on my legs for weeks and at times I am scared to pieces of him. I am unable to take him to church because of his un-predictability and he would scare the lil ones to pieces. He has hardly any friends in the neighborhood. He never has anyone show up to his birthday party. He will fight just about anyone and threaten them with their lives.
My husband and I cannot leave him with a regular sitter, we have to have professioanl sitters who know how to handle this kid and NOT hurt him and know how to restrain him accordingly. WE had CPS called on us at a lab one time because we had to restrain him for a blood draw and the lab tecnician refised to draw blood from the child because he was afraid of the child and so I threatened his job and he came back at me. CPS came in and knew about the child and said " Oh this lil guy" I get the bruises and the child is fine. For all blood draws now they sedate him. For teeth fillings they use anesthesia and for me they use " Oh honey we admire you" really?
I /we do not want to lose this child and we struggle daily to weekly to hold on tight to this human being who we know can turn out to be a bit different in many ways. he is very VERY violent and yet he can be a pussy cat too. We do not keep any guns in the house, we would be dead by now and knives are carefully maintained. We have 4 cats and one dog. When he gets angry we have taught him if he hurts an animal we call the police. We have called the police on hurting humans and have had to call them when he refused to take his meds when he tore the hosue apart from one end to the next. A piece of dust set him off. CPS is now looking into respite care for my husband and I so we can go out once a month.. maybe. I trust no one with him , he is hard to handle and if he got hurt I would come apart. OR for that matter if anyone else got hurt I would come apart.. hell this is hard...
Hi there, I felt like I was reading my own story, when I read yours. Keep being strong mate, yes I'm from down under and I'm hopeing things are differant there than they where for me/us here. My little fella is 23 now he tried to kill me while I was sleeping when he was 7, but my hubby woke up and caught him, I think he went to school may-be 6mths in his life if I was to add it all together. When he was 9 i handed him over to the state, because we had three other kids and he would threaten to kill them while they/we where sleeping, but they begged me to take him back after only three weeks, it was a nice break and the bonding time with the rest of the family was priceless. i was tired of friends and family saying "give him to me for a week I sort him" usually it was about 3 hours and he had sorted them. I would cop abuse from neibours, family, teachers and just about any one that met him. He would get so violent, I MEAN SO VIOLENT with me because I never let him out of my sight and as soon as he would go to hurt someone I was there so I would cop it, I'd like a dollar for every bruise (you know what I mean) He would distroy the house over and over tiping furniture over kicking and punching holes in doors and walls.There was no help for us at all here because of how young he was, I took him to a team of phsyc's for assesment and recieved a phone call he told me that this call was off record and if I spoke about it he wouldn't admit to it, he told me my son would allways be one step forward six steps back and I needed to make a choice now to keep him or not, he said I'm sorry but by the time he's 18 he will be in jail or dead. So I decided to do it my way, Mardy wasn't "normal" so all "normal" parenting went out the window, to me then and now my son seemed to be suffering what we call in my house fear, fear of every thing, over the top fear, eg: One year ago I brought him a caravan and set it all up for him with big screen T.V, sony ect but when I told him he went off threating to burn the house down with us in it, saying he hated us and was going to kill us, but I stood my ground like I have since he was young and kept telling him how much we loved him and how I couldnt wait to come to his place for a cuppa, and how much his dog would love to sleep at the end of his bed. His fear was that we didn't love him that we where getting rid of him. The change took a little while but now he's fine with it, still a year latter he will bring it up. Mate you know your child best , take everything as advice, use whats best for you and your family, all the best and good luck.
(Original Air Date: 10/18/07) What if you feared your own child? Dr. Phil's guests say they worry that one day they may die at the hands of their offspring. Steven and Tori say Steven's 9-year-old son, Donovan, poisoned his siblings and then laced Tori's drink with aquarium cleaner. They say he laughed after his family members went to the hospital and has not shown remorse for his sinister acts. He's now in a treatment facility, but should Tori and Steven allow him back into their home once he's released? Then, Susie narrowly escaped death after her stepson tried to brutally kill her with a gun and then a knife. He's now behind bars, so why does she fear he will try to finish the job? And, Carrie and Lance fear their son, Michael, will be the next shocking murder headline. They say he threatened to cut his teacher's eyes out with a knife and kill his younger sister. When Michael becomes enraged, Carrie locks herself in the bedroom for fear of what he might do. Find out what Dr. Phil cameras caught on tape while at Carrie and Lance's house. And, why do the parents feel their son's behavior is influencing their daughter? What does Dr. Phil think is at the root of Michael's rage? Talk about the show here.
