11/24/2023 0 Comments Rad disorder adoption![]() I sought help from other adoptive parents – primarily in Facebook parent support groups. Other parents whose children did not have the same challenges also didn’t really get it at all, so it left me at times with a feeling of isolation and despair. Most of them were well-meaning, but the majority of professionals just didn’t understand the level of challenge that I was dealing with. When seeking solutions for these behavior challenges, I got a lot of advice from a lot of different professionals and parents. * Extreme charm and compliance at school or with strangers, but not at home * Mood swings and chronic negativity/ irritability * Refusal to comply with parental requests * Defiance and rage when feeling out of control * Destroying property and items in the home * Screaming, kicking, scratching, hitting, hair pulling * Extreme meltdowns at the slightest trigger Maybe your child has also received a RAD diagnosis (or another diagnosis such as ODD or IED) and exhibits some of these behaviors at home: In addition to RAD, he collected a long list of other diagnoses, including IED (Intermittent Explosive Disorder), PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder), anxiety, and depression. Life for our family was like a living nightmare. Shortly after his adoption, we dealt with extreme behaviors that landed him in the emergency room for multiple psychiatric hospitalizations – a total of eight in his first three years home. ![]() So I’m on a mission to help as many other families as I can find growth and healing.Īnd I have a completely different definition of RAD, which I will share with you later in this article. ![]() I’m not convinced that he EVER had a “disorder,” and I know so much more now than what I knew then. ![]() He is 17 now, and he would no longer qualify for this diagnosis at all. At age 10, my son was diagnosed with RAD ( Reactive Attachment Disorder). ![]()
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