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Old Nov 17, 2009, 07:14 AM
mum2four mum2four is offline
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Location: South Australia
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my oldest 2 kids have been put on strattera.... my 14y has asperger syndrome and while there way to cure aspergers it has helped is attention span and reduced the intencity of his obsessive behaviours. My 12y daughter also takes that and shes had a huge change in her attenstion and focus as well shes been diagnoised with depression she also takes and anti D med. I strongly suspect that my 12y has OCD. She crys all the time like I use to at her age she will cry over the wrong cup or plate she seem to think only a certain one is hers....she s my hoarder and I worry about her cause my sister cant keep a clean house and hoards things and my mum hoards things but my mum is a perfectionist and has to have new things alot. My daughter is more like my sister than I would like her to be. She hoards the strangest items and will not throw things away even if they get ruined. I have had to deal with 100s of crying fits and refusal behaviour over paper things that feel she has to keep or stones or strange little item that have no meaning to anything she enjoyed or would have memories connected to them. I have lovingly nicnamed her cyclone kira as she can have a clean room one min and walk away for less the hour and its knee deep in things that should be on her bed or in her cupboard or on her selves. I asked her to clean her room last week and instead on cleaning it she made it so much messier but that not really what concerned me as kids often play with toys and make more mess when asked to clean it was the look of compleate confusion on her face the tears and anger and sincerity in her voice when she tried to tell me she was cleaning her room I tryed to get her to explain how taking all her stuffed toys down from where thay had been neatly sitting for a while, could be seen to cleaning as cleaning means to put things away and make the room neater not messier. She cryed for hour all afternoon.