My little brother was recently diagnosed with ADD and has been on medication for about two or three months now, but it doesn’t seem like it’s really doing anything, to be quite honest. He still freaks out and throws tantrums like nothing I’ve ever seen. When he’s being bad, my parents just go with it and leave him alone because if he’s sent to his room he’ll throw a fit and start breaking things. When he does get mad to the point that he breaks something, he’ll turn to one of us and say “you made me do it! It’s your fault that I broke it!” And from his tone I think he really believes that. At school, he’s being a bully to his best friend, and it’s getting to the point that his friend doesn’t even really want to be around him anymore. The things my brother is doing are, in his mind, meant to make the other laugh and smile, and he doesn’t understand what’s going wrong and just keeps at it day after day.

The thing is, he really is a good kid. Outside these episodes, he’s such a sweetheart who loves everyone and everything. But when he has one of these episodes, it’s like he’s a totally different person. We don’t know what to do to help him and put a stop to this behavior. What can we do?