Attachment Disorder Symptoms
The signs and symptoms of Attachment Disorder can be dubios and mimic other disorders; Post Traumatic Stress, Sensory Processing Dysfunction, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, and even ADHD in extreme cases. For adoptive children trauma and neglect can play out in different ways and attachment often just gets in the way.
- Superficially charming and engaging, particularly around strangers or those who they feel they can manipulate
- Indiscriminate affection, often to strangers; but not affectionate on parent’s terms
- Problems making eye contact, except when angry or lying
- A severe need to control everything and everyone; worsens as the child gets older
- Hypervigilant
- Hyperactive, yet lazy in performing tasks
- Argumentative, often over silly or insignificant things
- Frequent tantrums or rage, often over trivial issues
Demanding or clingy, often at inappropriate times - Trouble understanding cause and effect
- Poor impulse control
- Lacks morals, values, and spiritual faith
- Little or no empathy; often have not developed a conscience
- Cruelty to animals
- Lying for no apparent reason
- False allegations of abuse
- Destructive to property or self
- Stealing
- Constant chatter; nonsense questions
- Abnormal speech patterns; uninterested in learning communication skills
- Developmental / Learning delays
- Fascination with fire, blood and gore, weapons, evil; will usually make the bad choice
- Problems with food; either hoarding it or refusing to eat
- Concerned with details, but ignoring the main issues
- Few or no long term friends; tend to be loners
- Attitude of entitlement and self-importance
- Sneaks things without permission even if he could have had them by asking
- Triangulation of adults; pitting one against the other
- A darkness behind the eyes when raging
I know a person fits 90% of these symptoms.
Thank you so much for point these out. Only if I should know these earlier, I would use different approach ( I thought love and good nutrition should help him.)
BTW, what do you mean by saying, ” a darkness behind eyes when raging.”
For patient who has dark eyes, how can you tell the darkness behind eyes>
Would you please explain a little bit more?
Thanks again,
For patient who has dark eyes, how can you tell the darkness behind eyes>
Would you please explain a little bit more?
Thanks again,
Alex, It does not depend on the color of their eyes. It is more about what is not there. I’m sure you have heard the saying that the eyes are the window to the soul, right? Well, with kids with RAD, I’m sure the eyes can tell you more than their actions or words.
I know that when my son had horrible tantrums or when he wanted to escape his eyes would glass over and he was gone. You could just tell that he was in a different place than we were. There was not necessarily a darkness behind the eyes but he was not there.