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| Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder |
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| A condition where a person, typically found in children, is chronically quick-tempered and will experience common serious outbursts that seem quite excessive compared to the situation. |
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| Was added to the DSM IV in May of 2013. |
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| Recently developed for kids who have been wrongly diagnosed with other disorders such as bipoloar disorder, oppositional defient disorder, ADHD, major depressive disorder, anxiety and autism spectrum disorder, and intermittent explosive disorder. |
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| The child will have major angry outbursts that don't fit the situation. They will also have constant irritable, angry moods towards everyone. Symptoms usually take place before the age of 10. |
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| Doctors will look for kids who have dramatic outburts multiple times a week, 3+, constant irritably behavior that towards everyone not just incidents between teachers, & all this had to be for at least a 12 month period. |
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| There isn't an exact agreement for what causes DMMD but some speculations are early psychological trama & abuse, problems with the family such as new deaths, divorce, moving, unhealthy diet, or even another medical conditions such as a neurological disabilty that causes poor behavior. Migraines would be an example. |
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There are no absolute ways to treat DMMD. The following are a few ways out of many that have worked to decrease the angry outbursts.
- Behavior Therapy
- Watching children to observe their own personal triggers.
- Timeout strategies.
- Assigning a safe place for them to let go and ease their outbursts.
- Even medication such as Ritalin or Risperidone.
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| A study was conducted to see if children with BD parents were more at risk for DMDD than children with regular, controlled parents. They took 375 children with BD parents and 271 with controlled parents and applied the DMDD criteria to all of them. Ratios were done and 8.3, 6.7% to 0.8% had the criteria for DMDD. Therefore it was proven that children that have parents with BD or at least a family history of it are more prone to getting DMDD than children with controlled parents. |
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| Rene Clark has a daughter named Kim would had frequent outbursts. Rene and the other family members didn't interact much with Kim in fear of doing something that may trigger her to go into a rage. Her angry outbursts were becoming daily and finally Rene heard about a newly diagnosed disorder, DMDD. Kim was 17 when they found out about this. |
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| I learned a lot from doing my project about this disorder. I went in just wanting to talk about depression and how it effects many people but then I got to looking at depressive disorders and found this one. This is a really straineuos disease that doesn't effect just one it effects several in families. The families are the ones that have to deal with the constant yelling and anger of their child when they really haven't done anything wrong while the child doesn't understand why they are so angry all the time and why they take it out on the people they love. |
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