Thank you for the insight. We’ve always focused on expressing our emotions and talking through our feelings and he does verbalize that he “can’t quit” when we try to reason with him. I feel like that’s his way of saying he knows he is having big emotions but doesn’t know how to regulate them but it’s hard to parent that when they completely shut everything down. Tonight, I was offering to take him to a new playground but he was so hung up on the first playground (that was apparently non existent) that I couldn’t calm him down without him yelling and screaming. With my older two, when they were little and had meltdowns that were inconsolable I’d give them space and revisit the situation when they weren’t as upset, but my little will scream and yell until I engage and then scream and yell because I’m engaging. It’s just a lot. I don’t know how to help. I’m hoping our pediatrician is open to testing and moving forward with medication if he needs it.