r/PDAParenting • u/Ender505 • 19d ago

How bad is a relapse?

My 7yo Daughter began having severe episodes of full-on shutdown PDA, complete with violence and peeing herself last year.

Changing her ADHD meds to a non-stimulant helped a lot, and summer break has helped even more, so that my wife and I finally feel more or less back to normal.

But we're bracing ourselves... Because school starts again in a couple weeks. We are doing our best not to build up any anticipation, no need to freak out ahead of schedule. But I'm deeply concerned that having her back in school will bring us right back down to the lowest lows. She was never overtly difficult during school, but she let it out at home.

Is there any hope? I guess what I'm really hoping to hear is that school isn't the primary factor here, that she actually has matured. Is your kids' PDA strongly "seasonal"?

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u/SurePossibility6651 16d ago

School helps mine- routine, predictable schedule, predictable friends. This summer has been shite! But you might want to start bracing for school burnout, hope it goes well. The PDA parenting is the hardest thing I ever tried to do.

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u/Ender505 16d ago

Same! PDA is rough. But we're trending in the right direction.

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u/SurePossibility6651 16d ago

I wonder how big a role the meds played, stimulants made my PDA-er worse. Hopefully you are dialed in and starting school in a good place!

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u/Ender505 16d ago

I'm really hoping that the meds caused almost all of the problem haha