Angry Child

Ok I am new to this so bare with me if I don't get enough detail this time or I add in a bunch of stuff you don't need I am sorry ahead of time. I have an almost 11 year old daughter who seems to be bitter and angry at everyone. This has been getting increasingly worse over the last 5 years, I understand her age and hormones play a part in this, but it doesn't seem "right" to me that she should feel such spite, resentment and hostility. I was at the end of my rope about 1 year and 1/2 half ago, I took her to a councilor, who refered us to a phsycologist who diagnoised her with ADHD. I really didn't think she had that,but I wasn't sure she didn't either and the more I read what the "symptoms" were I started to doubt myself. She was moody, distracted easily, overly talkative, lacks focus, angry, boistiourous, figity and impulsive and pretty bossy. Anyway I begrudgingly agreed for her to try some medication, I wasn't thrilled, but I was really stressed and living with her had become almost intolerable. So she went on Concerta, which she noticed improvements in herself with 2 weeks.I did too. So I conceeded that maybe medicine was what she needed. Then we had to up her dose, that worked for awhile, but even then she still had anger issues and her moods were like a rollercoaster- happy, sad, angry, lonely, mad, excited, bored, afraid and round and round. Fast forward 1 year later and I became so fed up with the "junk" that went along with the "Dr." visits and the meds I decided to forgo the meds. We weened her off gradually and in the process of that I had read that Omega fatty acids have shown to be helpful for mood balancing and also for ADHD. So she is taking 1 capsule of flax borage and fish oil every day. Her teachers say she's still doing well in school, but they've noticed she's a bit more easily distracted and seems to loose focus a bit more quickly, but they don't feel it's that significant. But she is still outrageously moody,anger or sadness being the most prevalient. She also has started (within the last 5-6 mos.) complaining of dizziness. She explained it to me like this: when you've bent over to long and come up to quickly. But for her it happens at random times, sitting at her desk at school, playing outside, eating dinner, during tennis leesons, watching tv. It sometimes happens only once in a week, or she could feel dizzy several times in one day. She also has been having problems with her ankles, they seem to be really week, she "twists" them fairly regularly and it doesn't seem as though much is needed for her to have a lot of pain in it when this happens, which is regularly. She has not started her period yet, though she is starting to change and develop into a young lady, so I am sure that will come soon. Her diet is ok, although she does like and eat more sweets than she should she isn't out of control. She eats a fairly wide range of foods including fish, beans, whole grains, fruit, some veggies- she is getting better about this very recently since she is trying out being a vegetarian (with fish) I use olive oil when ever possible, but I do also use butter. I try and use as much organic food as I can find and afford. Her younger brother has a wheat allergy so we are label readers and try and eat foods rich in vitamins and good stuff. She also takes 2 children's orgainic whole foods multivitamins a day. She sleeps well. As far as I can tell she has regular bowel movements, although she has mentioned a few times that her tummy was cramping and she had diareha. She also is hot alot.Not with a fever, just naturally "hot-blooded" I have noticed too that her body oder has become much stronger. She uses a non aluminum deodorant. I think I will wrap this up for know. Please let me know if there is any other important info you need to know. I would just really like to help find something for her to even out her moods, balance her, and give her some sense of calmness and well being. Also something to keep her focus in check. Thank you so much I know this is a lot of stuff I wrote, I hope I gave you info that will help! Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions. Cristy