One of the first tools we used when our DMDDer was raging was to give him a pillow that he could scream into, stomp on and punch his fist into. We wanted to acknowledge his need to scream and hit while giving him a safe way to do it. Letting him get it out of his system seemed to help. As he became less violent (but still highly irritable), we would give him an i-pad with video games on it. Something about switching his brain into something totally different seemed to help.
What do you guys do to help your DMDDer calm down?
Laura, thank you so much for all of these I am literally in tears reading everything. My son was just diagnosed with dmdd after two long years of struggling, long long long years. I would love to talk to someone, feeling very overwhelmed. Do you do any Zoom or other type of support group interactions? Again thank you so much this is already helpful knowing that I'm not so alone. Thank you!