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Does Dysinhibition Syndrome Sound Familiar?

1. Does your child have documentation of a neurological disorder?
2. Is the behavior excessive, with vulgarity, swearing, and silliness? Is this behavior pervasive in your child's life?
3. Does your child blurt out free associative responses contrary to the content of the discussion?
4. Does your Child lack social cues and exhibit difficulty integrating them with consistency?
5. Does conventional disciplinary action tend to escalate the behavior rather than redirect it?
6. Are you sometimes embarrassed in social situations?
7. Does the behavior seem inconsistent with his/her personality, values, or beliefs?
8. As medications wear off does your child go off like an atom bomb?
9. Does the individual feel remorse & apologetic after a meltdown?
10. Does the family feeling isolation because no one wants the child around?
11. Does the behavior seem cyclical at certain seasons, celebrations, or in relationship to a particular stress?

Teachers:

1. Are you frustrated because your student responds inconsistently to your discipline tactics?
2. Is it impossible to manage the student in the classroom as medication's effectiveness weans?
3. Is your student shutting down in his/her social, emotional, and productive functioning?
4. Does the individual feel remorse and apologetic after meltdown?
5. Are other students complaining and refusing to be with this student?
6. Are the behaviors infantile and not age appropriate?

Professionals

1. Are there so many diagnoses & symptoms that they are difficult to treat?
2. Does the child behavior seem to sabotage efforts for interventions and treatments?
3. Do the parents report to you that suggestions for interventions escalate the child's behavior?
4. Is it difficult to determine which spectrum of disorders is causing the most havoc and addressing one symptom might upset another symptom?

Destabilization:

Episodic destabilization:

1. Does the behavior go off like an "atom bomb" for no apparent reason?
2. Does rages, meltdowns and outbursts occur but subside when medications are given?
3. Is it impossible to manage the student in the classroom until the medication is taken?
4. Is the person able to suppress behaviors more frequently in one setting vs. another or with one person vs. another?
5. Does the person engage in self injurious behavior like biting herself or places scratches so deep that she bleeds?

The full blown destabilization:

1. Are the rages and meltdowns happening so quickly, it's hard to tell when one begins and ends because they happen in a series of unrelenting blasts?
2. Is the person shutting down emotionally, socially, and productively?
3. Is there family isolation because of the behaviors?
4. Is the school saying that they can no longer manage the behaviors in an educational setting?
5. Is the person threatening or caused harm to himself or others?

Adults

1. Has the individual lost his/her job?
2. Does the adult make vulgar and inappropriate comments in the wrong setting at the wrong time?
3. Does the adult get angry over what appears to be something trivial?
4. Does The adult's behavior resemble that of a 3 year old?

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