Came across this in my studies and marveled how we have a disorder for everything - BUT regardless - haven't you all had an opportunity to meet these folks as ADULTS much less children?
People who are continuously argumentive, or 'oppostional' if you prefer. No matter how plain the truth is they argue up down and sideways?
It sure made me rethink some of the people I have met in the course of my lifetime, that I just dismissed as difficult or that I just cant seem to get along with or find an equal ground to agree on anything - NOW it seems, they got a name...
Conduct disorder (including oppositional-defiant disorder) Conduct disorder (including oppositional-defiant disorder) - F91# (Clinical term: Conduct disorders Eu91)
Introduction All children are defiant at times and it is a normal part of adolescence to do the opposite of what one is told. Oppositional-defiant disorder mainly applies to children whose functioning at home and at school is impaired by constant conflict with adults and other children. Conduct disorder mainly applies to adolescents whose behaviour goes to antisocial extremes; many are excluded from school or in trouble with the law.
Presenting complaints
• In younger children: marked tantrums, defiance, fighting, and bullying.
• In older children and adolescents: serious law breaking such as stealing, damage to property, assault.
• Can be confined only to school or only to home. Diagnostic features
• A pattern of repetitive, persistent and excessive antisocial, aggressive or defiant behaviour lasting six months or more. • These features must be out of keeping with the child’s development level, norms of peer group behaviour, and cultural context (eg isolated tantrums in a three-year-old should not be regarded as abnormal).
• In younger children (say, three to eight year-olds), the behaviours are characteristic of the oppositional-defiant type of conduct disorder: angry outbursts, loss of temper, refusal to obey commands and rules, destructiveness, hitting, but without the presence of serious law-breaking.
• In older children and adolescents (say, nine to 18 years olds), the behaviours are characteristic of conduct disorder per se: vandalism, cruelty to people and animals, bullying, lying, stealing outside the home, truancy, drug and alcohol misuse, and criminal acts, plus all the features of the oppositional-defiant type.
Differential diagnosis and co-existing conditions Co-existent disorders are common and do not rule out the diagnosis; they are easily missed so should be carefully checked for:
• Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder - F90.
• Hyperactivity.
• Depressive disorder - F32#.
• Specific reading retardation (dyslexia).
• Generalized Learning disability (mental retardation) - F70.
• Autism spectrum disorders - F84.
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It's funny you bring this up.... When I was 14 I was hospitalized with anorexia for nearly 6months. One of my initial diagnosis was ODD. I thought (and still think) this diagnosis is crazy - I mean what 14 year old girl would not make a little fuss about being force fed and living in an institution? :huh: I think a lot of times they pass this diagnosis out for stupid reasons... now as an adult I'm somewhat capable of standing up for myself and i'm aware of my opinions but I don't really have a problem with authority and I don't like confrentations.... I've always kind of been like this.... I don't know ... the whole situation made me whant to be in the psychology field so that maybe I can't help ensure that stupid disorders such as this don't get handed out to everyone that walks in the door - (as many girls did when I was hospitalized!)

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