Re: Agressive Behavior...Help!!

[Guest guest]

Jill, I have to agree with Kassi on this one. I thought for a very long time

before putting Abby on meds. Now that she is on them I wish that I wouldn't

have waited so long. She is a much happier child. No, it doesn't fix everything

but her day is much easier for her to deal with on the meds. Her anxiety was

getting the best of her and it was leading to depression. I wasent going to let

that happen. She takes 10mg of Prozac each morning. She also takes Trileptal

for her epilepsy.

Pennie

Abby's Mom

[Guest guest]

Penny and Kassi I to agree for self at times I to need to be on medications

or I to shut down and regress mush so, not from lack of skill in an area but

due to so much anxiety and such cant perform or be to do things once was of

able to do and the constant demands to do so makes me have breaks in my

ability to cope and then I to lash out mostly at self but if one to reach

into my space or place a demand for me to perfom in ways my brain cant then

I to be to turn that to who ever is causing the stress at the moment, this

appears to be a regression in many ways but it is really with a trigger that

causes the aggressions.

Sondra

[Guest guest]

Dear Jill,

Your daughter's aggression problems sound just like what we went through

with my daughter , shortly after her 12th birthday. It started out

small like pinching or smacking her legs when upset or frustrated. Then she

started grabbing towels, biting them and punching against her mouth with the

towel still in it. She, too, looses her verbal expression when angry or

upset. Then it moved on to emotional melt downs and temper tantrums. It took

several more months before she started turning her aggression towards her

teacher and classroom staff. We tried the medication route...Risperdol

(great for 6 months then it wore off and increasing it made her like a

zombie) and Buspar last spring....made her so obsessive compulsive that

she'd get more aggressive if you tried to redirect her. Someone on the

enzymesandautism list gave me some information about calming amino acids and

I found out that glycine is good for calming the rages my daughter used to

engage in (she's now almost 15). About a week after starting glycine,

everyone noted how much more calm and happy she was. The aggression started

to disappear and the rages stopped. Just this past November into December, I

introduced DMG then switched to TMG as TMG goes further than DMG to raise

serotonin levels which helps to reduce aggression. My daughter has been

doing super in school and only rarely has a short aggressive incident we've

observed during her week of ovulation. If you type in " calming

neurotransmitters " and " TMG and autism " in your search engine, you'll find a

lot of valuable information to help or try first before resorting to

medication. My daughter is also on Houston digestive enzymes that also have

helped.

Agressive Behavior...Help!!

> Dear List:

>

> Hi all! My daughter who has autism is 12, almost 13. She is still

basically

> nonverbal although she can communicate some of her wants by typing, but

there

> are still many things that she cannot communicate well...how she

feels...why

> she gets upset. And of course we are headed towards puberty which I feel

is

> most likely adding full to the flame.

>

> She wants to lash out by hitting or pinching and now she has started

> directing it towards other children. We are trying to handle this

behaviorally,

> taking data, trying to find the antecedant, etc.

>

> I am wondering about meds although I hate the thoughts of trying that to

as I

> am afraid it may just make the situation worse.

>

> Any suggestions would be so greatly appreciated!

>

> Thanks,

> Jill

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Kassi I to be of that now and not eating turkey. LOL and to be think going

crazy in the head of me. Some to say maybe it is life changes to me. I to be

now have to get of reading glasses because cant be to see words on books or

paper anymore they blend much into a mass of letter patterns with no

meanings. Now I to know why.

Sondra