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Childhood Disorders

Child mental health issues include Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Asperger's Disorder, Autistic Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Separation Anxiety Disorder, childhood eating disorders, dyslexia, learning disorders, mental retardation, stuttering and depression. Discuss these any any other child mental health issues here.

Finding out you were ADD after 38 years of struggling

2.5 years ago I was diagnosed with ADD. Did the 50 page test but I know the doctor didn't even bother to read it. Only the resulting score. Growing up my parents liked the alocohol and dad was abusive towards my mother. I was the referee and also took the verbal abuse. I always felt different from...

by User avatar 40 and ADD

My Son_possible turretts ?

My son will be 5 in December and for more than a year we've noticed that when he gets really excited about something, an event, a new toy, a new tv show, he brings his closed fists to his mouth and squeezes them together tightly. It has always seemed like he was just trying to control his...

by User avatar Guest

Genetic screening for Usher syndrome

Hi, folks. My friends’ got a baby, but after few months he was diagnosed with Usher syndrome. I wonder whether someone can know upfront whether this syndrome will appear. Is there some genetic screening for this syndrome? I would appreciate if you could tell me this. Your help is more than...

by User avatar emlyn66582209

Profitable cognitive behavior techniques employed by psychot

Profitable cognitive behavior techniques employed by psychotherapists (psychologists) in Greece in order to extend indefinitely the length of therapy (Taken from A. Beck and distorted in a Greek style). (renewed) 1. Spotting the negative thought (cognitive error), for instance, examining if the...

by User avatar whothomas50042

Study Finds No Link Between MMR Vaccine and Autism

MMR vaccine that protects children against the measles, mumps and rubella (hence the name MMR) has been an issue of controversy ever since 1998 when a physician Andrew Wakefield linked the vaccine to the autism incidence. He showed in his study that a live measles virus contained in the vaccine...

by User avatar Danny

Cognitive Therapy Exercises

Hi, I suffer from depression, and my doctor recommended me cognitive therapy exercises. I will start with them in one week, but I’m not sure what to expect. Does anybody know what cognitive therapy is?

by User avatar Guest

Difficulties with reading and spelling in children

I have a seven year old child in elementary school, and he's not doing too good with reading and writing. Before he started school, he knew the alphabet relatively well and could read simple books with no problem at all, even out loud. Since he started school it has been a downhill battle. He...

by User avatar ina673137294

Theatric display of emotions in histrionic patients

Hi, folks. I know a girl that always seek for attention whenever she is in a crowd. I would say that she almost has a theatric display of emotions. Later I found out that she had been previously diagnosed with histrionic disorder. I wonder if anyone can tell me something more about this.

by User avatar merline98160273

Should I test for dyslexia

I just got home from my daughters 1st grade parent teacher conference and it didn't go so well. My daughters teacher said she is on a 1st grade reading level, but she has a hard time putting sounds together, spelling, and flipping numbers or letters around. She is not struggling with math- addition...

by User avatar ANNEMK91592

over medicating kids with ADD and AHD

Hello. I'm 29 year old male and I have some very important questions. You see, about three months my only son has been diagnosed with one behavior abnormality called ADHD! I really don’t know a lot about this but I know that the initiative came from his teachers in school and school psychiatrist....

by User avatar senko1547