http://fasblog.fetalalcoholsyndrome.org fas Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:39:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.2 http://fasblog.fetalalcoholsyndrome.org/?p=16#comment-4453 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:56:36 +0000 http://fasblog.fetalalcoholsyndrome.org/?p=16#comment-4453 Thanks for the great information – I enjoyed reading it! I always love your blog. http://fasblog.fetalalcoholsyndrome.org/?p=11#comment-649 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:18:33 +0000 http://fasblog.fetalalcoholsyndrome.org/?p=11#comment-649 Your article was very helpful. Maybe you could answer this for me. I have A daughter that was borned with Fetal Distress does that mean she is FSD. I believe she is any way seems she was doing all right until she got about 17 seems she has acted out every thing as FSD and when I think back at some of the things she did just thought she was a child. We got through until now when Mental Person put in her head she need to take zoloft not coming up with what her problem was. I have been so upset until I could not think I was forced to give her zoloft and I refused after she took it for a while and ended up cutting herself. She ended up in a mental hospital and was out of control. So when she come out she for got the the Med. and I did also she seem to be back being the good girl she was. The mental person forced me so until threating me if I didn't she would call DSS on me and I let them take her because I had to be right that Life is not in a pill bottle you have work on life on one step at a time. I figured she was 17 and she could have done something different she was never a bad child. Since she is gone I really began to realize that she was consuming out lives for all the attention. Which she always seemed happy and was very demanding we have to do something all the time. Have two more children and they do not demand that much attention. So I dug up some records that I had that brought me back to when she was borned she is really my Grandaughter that I have raised. Her mama did drugs and drink alcohol while caring her and the other two. She is the only one that I feel has FSD maybe the others has some but is not effected as much as I have noticed the difference. The 17 was borned with Fetal Distress. She had gotten to where at her teenage years she seem to worry about everything. She was sexual abused from 5 to 9 by Mamas boyfriend. Then lost a friend in death that she seem never to get over. She seem to worry about losing her friends at school. They were all very concern about her but, they could not say anything about a problem she had. She is a very out going person but, does not have any confidence. Maybe she does that she is taking Zolft. That is temperay that I am afraid that she will have to face life one day and not know how to handle life. Some people had tried to talk to her and explain that life is something you have to take one day at a time. I like what you said, that if you do not know what is wrong she is sent home with more Medicine to stablize her. That is what has happend just this week she said, they went up 25mg now she is taking 75 grans of zoloft it blews my mind. I ask why? she said, because I miss you all for the problems I have had since birth on an on she has all these worries and on zoloft. I am trying to get her to the right place for Evaluation but have not gotten the right person. I have not hit the right key for help. http://fasblog.fetalalcoholsyndrome.org/?p=10#comment-491 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:51:17 +0000 http://fasblog.fetalalcoholsyndrome.org/?p=10#comment-491 Thanks for this post - I'm linking out to my blog where lot's of adoptive parents with FASD/ARND are supporting each other through the web. Still trying to convince people that this isn't 'something that will go away...' blessings - dorothy mom to 10 so far... http://fasblog.fetalalcoholsyndrome.org/?p=10#comment-423 Thu, 14 May 2009 07:57:41 +0000 http://fasblog.fetalalcoholsyndrome.org/?p=10#comment-423 Great point and very interesting food for thought. I'm not sure I have any clients I can replicate this with, but will bear in mind for the future. Regards http://fasblog.fetalalcoholsyndrome.org/?p=11#comment-420 Wed, 13 May 2009 14:35:02 +0000 http://fasblog.fetalalcoholsyndrome.org/?p=11#comment-420 hi, thanks,The article was very well written, very helpful to me http://fasblog.fetalalcoholsyndrome.org/?p=17#comment-419 Wed, 13 May 2009 13:41:53 +0000 http://fasblog.fetalalcoholsyndrome.org/?p=17#comment-419 Nice ! :).. Thanks buddy.. http://fasblog.fetalalcoholsyndrome.org/?p=21#comment-375 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 04:48:13 +0000 http://fasblog.fetalalcoholsyndrome.org/?p=21#comment-375 Just also want to add the thought that siblings are also part of the family PTSD picture. I definitely think there is a cumulative effect that seems to make me rebound with a little less emotion -a sort of dulling, each year. http://fasblog.fetalalcoholsyndrome.org/?p=22#comment-373 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:55:17 +0000 http://fasblog.fetalalcoholsyndrome.org/?p=22#comment-373 Delinda, I was reviewing the Blog posting on PTSD and was very interested in the comment under your post regarding, "the people who can effectively and efficiently postpone the breakdown are the ones who survive until they have enough leisure and resources to lie around coping with that tiger attack they survived forty years ago. Very efficient survival tool" she really captured PTSD in a nutshell. Good logic - that girl. : ) http://fasblog.fetalalcoholsyndrome.org/?p=22#comment-368 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:04:09 +0000 http://fasblog.fetalalcoholsyndrome.org/?p=22#comment-368 Thanks for the second to last paragraph. Because my 17- year old has made so much behaviorial progress in his ED school these last two years, I neglected to attend ALANON meetings prior to his home visit this last week. The Alanon meetings are one of the non Western medicine tools I use for self care from the stress of living with my child. They remind me that his problems are his problems. "I didnt cause it, I can't control it and I can't cure it" My son's default mood is the negative, irritable, irrational state of a drunk without a drink -- which he very physically is. I have only myself to blame this week for all my failed efforts to "fix it". Alanon meetings as a support system, yoga, bike riding, walking meditation and pausing for a silent prayer ("Bless him, Change Me) before speaking to him at times of agitation, are some of my tools for stress management that might be helpful to someone reading this today. Also, I have had to go one step further in self care during menopause and have eliminated white flour and sugar from my diet to mitigate my own mood swings because my own capacity for rage exacerbates everything. http://fasblog.fetalalcoholsyndrome.org/?p=20#comment-347 Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:07:49 +0000 http://fasblog.fetalalcoholsyndrome.org/?p=20#comment-347 Thanks for this perspective. I also am an optimist, blessed with a pretty idyllic childhood, and am now raising two children adopted from Russia. One has a FAS diagnosis, the other we are working on what we suspect to be a FASE diagnosis. So much of what you said in this entry and in other writings of yours I've come across has been very helpful in giving me new ways to ponder what I've been given.