Mood Disorders

My daughter has had some strange problems since she was able to move around.   She started by picking up dog poop and wanting to eat it, also did the same with dirt.  She is 4 now and leaves the dog poop and dirt alone, but now she want  to smell it.   When we change the baby's poopy diaper, she wants to stick her nose almost in it..  She is also doing mean things and doesn't seem to care if it hurts or not.  We found her trying to choke a dog one day , found her  getting ready to put scissors in a dogs rear and now she trys to do mean things to the baby.  She holds his nose, pushes on his chin or leg or arm really hard.  She wakes him up when we say the baby is sleeping and to please be quiet.  She is in this habit now of lying all the time.  She has only been in preschool and her first teacher worked with her like she had ADHD.  That seemed to help.  The next school keeps her in a very structerd environment and they haven't had too much trouble except when she scared a little girl by saying, "I'm going to stab you to death".  I thought she was bipolar because sometimes she can be so calm and sweet and then out of no where she goes into these mean rages and doesn't even care if she gets spanked or time out.  Can a certain food that she may eat cause this kind of behavior?  We need some help.  If she continues with this mean streak, she may hurt someone.

[bchild1108]

Ok. I am Bipolar myself. I have been bipolar since i was 6 years old. From what some of these things sound like it's just a normal childs way... Like the waking baby up, smelling poop and picking things up.
But the actual causing harm to the dog or the baby until they welp or cry and then what she said to the little girl is defently something you should be worried about and then out of the blue rages.
As far as a certain food causing it. No, not really. Some foods can spark rages or manic behavior  like wheat, milk, eggs or sugar. Its known as a "brain allergy".
Does she sometimes or metioned to you she gets depressed mood, anxiety, fatigued or headaches?
How about when you put her in time out, do you make her stay there or do you give in?
Try cutting out the foods mentioned above as much as possible and try a differnt way of disiplining her. Maybe take her favorite toy away for a certain time and make sure she understands what she did was wrong and could get her in BIG trouble.
I would try this first for a couple of months, if it does not work i would recommend her to start seeing a theropist, bc they defently can pull whatever is in her head out into the open to better understand why she is doing what she does.
Hope this helps a little.

[JGF25]

It does not sound to me like your daughter has OCD.  There is a Mood Disorders forum that you might think of posting to.  Perhaps you will get more answers there.  

[Mck1101]

Thank you both for your responses.  I'm new on here and thought I was posting it to Mood Disorders.    Bchild1108, taking away her favorite toy has helped, we will have to continue that.  And your idea about those foods, we too will try taking away one at a time to see if there is any changes.  As far as depressed, I don't think so.  She never mentions a headache.  There are times she looks really tired and seems to act up worse when she is.  Maybe it is anxiety when she can't seem to sit still or be focused on anyone thing which is also when she seems to be tired or maybe after she has had sprite.  Maybe sugar does have something to do with it.  Thank you for all the help.  We will continue researching this and post it on the Mood Disorders also.