I am still here and reading all your posts. Some how time is just flying by and I didn’t realize how long it’s been since I wrote something. We do still have GD in our life ( now 3 &1/2 yrs old) it unfortunately hasn’t gone away completely. It does still show up worst when a BM is coming or she’s bored. So we’re still trying to keep her busy and regular (bm’s).

It is upsetting that it’s still here with all we’ve done to help control it BUT at least we’ve learned how to control and minimize it. She has gotten much much better about putting herself in her bedroom to GD. We just keep explaining that it’s o.k. if you do it you just need to do it in private. Just trying to get her to understand it’s nothing to be ashamed of or feel embarrassed about juts need to learn about it. Which has also helped me !!!! Just to hear myself nicely explaining to her the do’s & don’ts, if you will, of GD has been – um – how do I say maybe calming? to me. I guess what I’m trying to say is that instead of getting stressed out about it – which only increase’s her stress – we stay calm and talk ourselves through the bad days. It does help!!! ….

As far as  further progress – it’s the same. Nothing has really changed and there’s no”service’s” being recieved and there hasn’t been since last oct. / nov. It seems that we’ve hit the “best it’s gonna get” stage. But I’ll take where we’re at now over where we were at the begginning any day.

I still do look forward to all the e-mails from other parents and person. There are still times when this GD feels very lonely and does get to me. So, it’s nice to be reminded every once and a while we’re not the only one’s learing how to manage and cope with this.

The response’s from those with GD have been some of the most helpful piece’s of advice that I’ve recieved !!!!!!!