The Attention Deficit Disorder Thread

What signs do you see at that age?

 

Abnormal behaviour.

 

That's broad.

 

I know. Our lecturer gave a few examples, but we didn't get much more into the developmental psychology.
She told us about the time she was an expert for custody cases, in which she was sent to families where children were supposed to be abused to assess the situation. The mother, who was thought to abuse her child, was talking to her in the living room, the one year old child was under the table, stroking her mother's leg for the entirety of the conversation. Our lecturer said that was a clear sign that there was something wrong with the relationship between mother and child, because children at that age are not usually trying to soothe their mothers that way. It did it because it could sense the mother's tension, which in the child's experience leads to pain, so it wanted to help the mother, calm her down.

 

But that would be evidence of disorders brought on by trauma.....not genetic disorders.....and if trauma was to blame then it can happen at any time during the childhood.

 

It is a trauma, yes, but it is a trauma that is happening again and again and again. Not one time, or hundred times, but thousands of times. During a time in which a child's personality usually awakes and stabilizes.

 

:shock:
Omg

 

Well of course......but my point was that earlier you said that the basis for all personality disorders are laid between 0-4........how is that true of traumas that take place after?....even as late as 10-12.

Also....were they only talking about trauma based personality disorders?

 

Why so omg?

 

Traumas that happen after that age certainly lead to mental illness in some sort, but not to personality disorders. Depressions, PTS....

No, we talked about the other PDs as well.

 

I dunno.
just sorta had a tiny revalation
duh

 

BullLarky
I Can TOO pay attention.

 

I just forget sometimes

 

Really? hmmm......sort of makes sense.....what do you think?......or is that something you already knew?

 

What was the revaluation?

 

I knew it had to happen in your early childhood, but I didn't know that after 4 years, you're pretty much safe from PD if you have been okay until then. That's why it was the most interesting part for me. It was also interesting to hear about the Schizoid PD (again not sure if it's the correct term in English) and the Paranoid PD, because people who have that don't usually come in contact with us helpers.

 

*makes note*

 

But were you convinced?.....I'm not.....I don't know......it just seems like a very definitive boundary line to me.

What did you get into about the other two?

By the way....I'm not boring you by going on it and asking am I?

 

I don't know, I think you can't generally draw the line at age 4 for every child, but it's the newest school of thought here at the moment and there have been many studies to arrive at this conclusion...

Are you familiar at all with the other two types I mentioned? (No, I'm not bored yet. lol)