Angel has anger issues. We’ve discussed this in the past (in a deleted post, sorry folks, they ain’t every comin’ back…I really wiped them clean). We met with the Behavioral Psych a couple of months ago and it was determined that she needed services.
Then it stopped.
Okay, it didn’t STOP…but it slowed significantly. Suddenly it wasn’t daily that we had a horrible shrieking, ear splitting, head banging, body throwing fit. It was every few days…one time we went almost a full week.Â
Our first appointment with the psych was about a week and a half ago. I had to say, it had calmed down…I was being honest. There were still plenty of issues to deal with (no sense of danger, mixed with daredevil stunts – another post on this soon), so we kept on as we had been. We planned for our next appointment.
And the she-devil returned…in full force.
Since that appointment naptime has been a joke. I put her down and she’s fine for twenty minutes and it becomes the seventh circle of Hell in the girls bedroom. With no catalyst, she starts shrieking and throwing herself around the crib, literally throwing herself into the bars. She beats on the wall, she tears up her bed (literally), she throws all of her bedding out. For at least fifteen to thirty minutes straight this happens.Â
Then she comes out of naptime and it’s a crapshoot. Some nights she’s jsut the sweetest angel you ever did see. The others – nothing makes her happy. Now, granted, Riley has taken to picking on her and hitting her – which certainly does NOTHING to help matters.Â
There are days when after nap time it’s an hour and a half of screaming…then Daddy walks inthe door and the angel magically appears and I just look crazy.
There are days when she’s perfectly good all day long, and then Daddy walks in the door and BOTH girls descend into madness. Like the stimulation of Daddy being home is the straw that breaks the camels back.
The next appointment for psych had to be cancelled (due to a full house of sickies), and has yet to actually be rescheduled because the psych never called me back the next day.Â
I’m at my wits end. I don’t know what to do with her when she descends into madness. I watch in terror as she flings herself into very hard surfaces without a care to possible injury. I need the psych to return and give me tips on what to do when she’s like that. I hate seeing my baby like this.
I hope I’m not speaking out of turn, but have you every considered dietary intervention? Many children who had symptoms like these were later found to have been in pain from delayed food reactions or neurologically affected by intolerance to things like artificial flavors and colors (Feingold Association for more info on that one).
It may be worth looking into and doesn’t have any risks associated with it.