Asking for help....

[conuly]

A friend of mine is very worried about her daughter, who is diagnosed ADHD and bipolar and who seems to be getting worse all the time. That hair-pulling thing, what looks like the beginnings of an eating disorder, violence towards inanimate objects, suicidal thoughts - that's a lot to fit into 13 years.

I don't have any advice, and doubt I could help, but I know some of my friends are near experts on these sorts of subjects, so I thought I'd ask you to help. If you want to comment there, go ahead, but I gave her my journal's addy, so she can come her and comment and read your comments.

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[iolarah.livejournal.com]

Almost forgot to add, on a more anecdotal note, one of my profs had a "Mr.Nobody" type schema for kids with anger problems. He described a therapy in which he'd start out by labelling the behaviour as Mr.Nobody's fault, and then, over time, get the child to admit that s/he was Mr.Nobody (although he didn't call it Mr.Nobody, because that would require the child calling him/herself nobody, and that's definitely not a positive outcome!) and had done the acts in question. It looked easy on the Powerpoint slides, but I imagine in practice it'd be rather arduous.