I am the mother of a teenage boy who lives with ADHD and now, suffers from depression. He is in his first serious (read, sexual) relationship, with a young lady who is not stable and comes from an abusive and neglective background who has a learning disability which adds an immaturtiy level.&nb...
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Anonymous
Monday, June 08, 2009 at 12:09 PM
I know exactly how you are feeling, I too have an 'unstable' teenager with adhd who is suffering tremendously with his irrational and unreasonable emotions and reactions. He to is at the end of a relationship with a girl who seems to take great pleasure out of causing him as much distress as possible. We are at our wits end as to how to best support him and have even begged our Doctor to ask for him to be re evaluated incase he has something else going on instead or aswell as adhd. You are lucky to be getting support from your clinic to help you cope with the after effects of his moods, we are left to get on with it here and I am beginning to feel overwhelmed. I feel the health service has let us down terribly in the care of teens with adhd - it is such a perilous time for them with so many changes going on in their bodies and can make or break them. Our mental health services here just dont consider adhd important enough and the kids are not getting the support they need and deserve and are struggling to cope with every day life. I really hope your sons relationship issues are delt with quickly and as painlessly as possible. Keep plugging away there - I keep telling myself it will all be worth it in the end, I have to believe it.
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Teenage boy problems
brimom
Saturday, August 22, 2009 at 05:39 PM
I too am living with a emotionally unstable teenage boy. He is diagnosed with depression and takes prozac. Several months ago we discovered that he was cutting himself. We got him to a psychiatrist right away and he started meds. However, he was so belligerent to the social worker that he was supposed to see weekly that I stopped it and switched to his high priced psychiatrist. We have seen some improvement. Now that school will be starting up again in a few weeks, he is started to get nasty and moody again. He is going into the 12th grade.He says that he can't study for the SAT's. He took the SAT's in May and did poorly because he refused to study. He says that he is unmotivated and overwhelmed. This summer even though he is 17, he refused to get a job. He said that he couldn't handle it.
I too am at my wits end.
I know exactly how you are feeling, I too have an 'unstable' teenager with adhd who is suffering tremendously with his irrational and unreasonable emotions and reactions. He to is at the end of a relationship with a girl who seems to take great pleasure out of causing him as much distress as possible. We are at our wits end as to how to best support him and have even begged our Doctor to ask for him to be re evaluated incase he has something else going on instead or aswell as adhd. You are lucky to be getting support from your clinic to help you cope with the after effects of his moods, we are left to get on with it here and I am beginning to feel overwhelmed. I feel the health service has let us down terribly in the care of teens with adhd - it is such a perilous time for them with so many changes going on in their bodies and can make or break them. Our mental health services here just dont consider adhd important enough and the kids are not getting the support they need and deserve and are struggling to cope with every day life. I really hope your sons relationship issues are delt with quickly and as painlessly as possible. Keep plugging away there - I keep telling myself it will all be worth it in the end, I have to believe it.