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In reply to the discussion: He's had a psychotic break [View all]Ms. Toad
(38,426 posts)but her taper was 50 day, so sounds about the same. She was not able to articulate what was going on as a 5-year old, but irritated was nuclear irrirated describes perfectly her reaction to me picking her up from the babysitter. She was so nuclear irritated that she literally tried to climb out of the car window while we were driving along at about 40 mph (after screaming and crying at the top of her lungs for several minutes after we had left the babysitter). I barely got the car pulled over in time to prevent it.
In that time period there were just so many times she was inconsolable - and all I could do was just grab her, wrap her in my arms against her struggles, and hold on as tight as I could. It was the only thing that seemed to calm her. And it tool a year before her emotions were back on even keel.