What To Do When Multiple Diagnoses and Treatments Don’t Lead to Solutions

This week’s question is from Mark and Josie:

“Our son has had challenges since he was an infant. He has never slept well, he’s a fairly picky eater, easily upset, and has no frustration tolerance. His behaviors have steadily gotten more challenging as he’s gotten older, he’s now 10. He’s smart and can do academic work for the most part at school, but struggles with his behavior there. He’s also pretty difficult to get along with and doesn’t have friends because of that. We’ve brought him to a lot of different professionals over the years and have been referred to various places for counseling, medication, social skills groups, and other kinds of things. He has been given several diagnoses: ADHD, ODD, DMDD anxiety, and even ASD has been mentioned, but nothing really seems to fit.

None of the recommendations have helped improve the challenges very much. We are at a point of feeling very frustrated and overwhelmed, as he’s getting older and we really don’t know how to help him. Is more counseling the answer to work on some coping skills? Are there other medications to try? We’re open to any suggestions and appreciate your insight.”

In this episode, I will address what to do when you hit a roadblock with your child’s health; when multiple practitioners, diagnoses (or zero diagnoses), and treatments don’t lead to solutions for your child’s behavioral or developmental issues, and how to start with a fresh perspective to get to the root cause.  In my 25 years of practice, I’ve learned that there is always hope. I’ve always been able to find one, if not several areas, where we can really start to impact, change, and see progress. It’s time to dig deeper and connect the dots!

Since I can’t replicate myself and help everyone I want to help, I put together a workshop called …Digging Deeper: Identifying Root Issues That May Be Contributing to Your Child’s Attention, Anxiety, Mood, Learning, and Behavior Symptoms. I walk you through the 12 main areas that you need to be looking at and considering in order to identify root causes and contributing factors for your child. Visit www.DrNicoleWorkshops.com to sign up.

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