Scatterbrained, Disorganized, Harried

Que_sera_sera
Fri, 22 May 2009 11:32:00 +0000

lilmom-sons story is long and winding but briefly-he always was disorganized and had trouble with writing in elementary school- He was diagnosed by a sp-lang path with an expressive lang disorder. we got him a writing tutor for 4-6th grades. He did very well 7th through 10th grades but started having sleep issues. It got worse to the point where he could not go to school or focus on work -drs said he was sleep deprived ( ultimately was diagnosed with 3 diff sleep disoders!). Most of 11th and much of 12th grade was shot for him. Nothing really helped until a therapist suggested that the real prob was anxiety poss due to executive dysfunction. the slepping problem was finally undertood to be primarily insomnia. He was diagnosed with ocd although I didn’t see it . ocd is often assoc. with procrastination etc. bottom line is when I read about executive dysf. it seemed to make sense. It is often found in people with ADHD which my son does not have but can be seen in people with anxiety. I don’t qiute know which came first but it doesn’t seem to matter as long as we are now focusing on each the anxiety and the executive skills that he is lacking. Ultimately I took him for a neuro-psych evaluation and it was confirmed. We have also finally taken him to the school district for educational testing just to make sure we are not missing anything -LD-wise. This is the first time in 3 years that things are improving. I believe that we finally have an understanding of what was going on with him. He feel so much more in control now and that things are doable.