I have an 8yo M that has been diagnosed with ADHD and anxiety since 5. He's got all the typical ADHD sypotoma (hyper, jumping from thing to thing, etc). But he's also so creative when he's in his zone.

The worrisome part though is that we've struggled with episodes of violent tantrums (throwing stuff, kicking biting, etc). These violent outbursts have always happened with my wife and me only -- never done this to anyone else, even his brother.

At 5 we started Prozac which made a huge difference... the violent tantrums were greatly reduced and we're able to actually bring him to day camps and such without meltdowns.

At 7 he switched to zoloft and Vyvanse. He was very stable on this until about 4 weeks ago.

The problems seemed to start about 4 weeks after the school year kicked off. This was a big year because we decided to try out a public elementary school instead of home schooling. He always seemed happy at school. Asked how his day ways he'd give two thumbs up. He talked about friends and recess and such.

He also talked a lot about "bad kids" and the thing they did. I know he had a few incidents that sounded like bullying so maybe these affected him pretty hard. I'm not sure.

About three weeks ago we had a major violent outburst at bed time where we ended up with two broken windows and a broken phone. About a week later we had another one. Bed time became harder and harder.

Last week he started basically refusing to go to bed. He would get a hold of the tablet and stay on it until 3am when he finally crashed. Trying to talk to him or take it away resulted in tantrums....dish soap thrown all over the house, etc.

Mid last week we felt we had no choice but to bring him into a inpatient hospital...we couldn't get any immediate help from psychiatrists.

He was there for 5 days. He came out and we had hope. He's been generally good during the day, but last night we had the same night time patten...he was up until 3.

My wife and I feel exauhseted and hopeless. We have a psych appt this Friday but there are no magic bullets here. It just feels like this is the new normal and I'm scared.

It's like he's a different kid at bedtime. He had a great day yesterday. We were able to talk to him abiut bedtime told him we would reward him if he could go to bed without the tablet. He was totally in board. But then last night a different kid showed up. I don't think this is a motivation problem. He understands rewards and such..but in the moment it's like his mood changes and it's not rhe same reasonable sweet kid anymorw