Every clinician should have a patient tike this one during his or her career! A case such as this lifts the spirits of all those involved in the treatment of patients. This case involves a 17-year old male who was brought to The Center, almost as a last resort, by his mother to see if anything could be done for him. He had been seen previously by many different health care professionals without success.

During the initial interview, his mother did most of the talking and answered questions as he sat in silence with a sullen ex- pression on his face and disinterest in his eyes, which were encircled by dark rings.' During the interview with Dr. Riordan, the mother described what it was like living with her son. She described him as 'a violent child. Everything he ate, everything he breathed made him violent f She said he had food allergies to some. of the most common foods: sugar, milk, corn, which she said is in everything. She said it "was like living in a twilight zone?' She also said that every medicine he took didn't work or worked in the opposite way it was supposed to. She dcicnbed her life as being like the " world turned upside down, and nothing worked like it was suppose to, including our son." She continued, " He would get so violent i hat we would have to call the police to stop it! He would break anything, trash the house." She ended by saying " He couldn't control it and we couldn't either!