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PeonForHer -> RE: Do you suffer from defiance disorder? (1/28/2011 7:52:54 PM)
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ORIGINAL: DesFIP
Conduct disorder, oppositional defiance or however you call it is one of the more rare of the mood disorders. Much less common than ADD/ADHD or unipolar depression or anxiety disorder. It rarely manifests on it's own, more commonly seen with ADD/ADHD and/or an anxiety disorder. My experience of it is that it is brought on by the anxiety disorder being insufficiently controlled. Get the anxiety disorder under control and ODD is pretty much a nonissue.
My friend's son has both ADHD and ODD. The ODD is really strange to watch. He will argue, for literally hours, about why his mother (the friend in question) won't give him the money/toy/item of food that he wants. It's as though he cannot, at some fundamental level, grasp the point that he's not able to get something that he wants. There's a noticeable, qualitative difference between his behaviour and that of kids who just don't like doing what they're told. It's odd as well as ODD.
Or at least, that's how he was, a year or so ago. He's just turned fourteen, and it already seems to be ebbing away. He gets embarrassed, now, after he's been 'loopy', as he puts it. Very affectionate kid - which makes up for a lot of hassles, and then some, as far as I'm concerned.
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