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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 186892" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>We discussed BiPolar (BP) and how it is being viewed differently for children/adolescents, long-term outcome and how this is being researched in counseling today (just myself and intern therapist). I won't go into all that because it is a little lengthy and might be controversial. But it did make me feel better about our short -term goals and "ideal", long-term goals for difficult child.</p><p></p><p>One thing that sticks out in my mind is that I consider it a little different if an adult is confident about their diagnosis and knows they need their medications to be able to have the quality of life they want. No one should ever try to convince that person to stop taking their medications, obviously. But when we are parents giving our kids medications and we aren't sure that the medications might not be appropriate or that they might be doing harm in some other way, or if we're in a position that we aren't confident about the diagnosis or the kid is an older teenager who isn't comfortable with it either, I cannot view that the same as the adult making their own informed decision about themself. Nor can I view it the same as a parent who refuses to give a kid medications when they clearly need them for safety.</p><p></p><p>In difficult child's case, right now he has to have them- there's no question about that and he takes them. But, as I said before, the day <em>might</em> come (a few years from now) when I am not as sure that he still has to have them, or that he wants to try coming off them, and I'd rather try it while he's still a minor and living at home.</p><p></p><p>As long as the only choice is either mania/suicidal tendencies and having better mental ability OR being stable and having less mental ability, difficult child stays on medications.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 186892, member: 3699"] We discussed BiPolar (BP) and how it is being viewed differently for children/adolescents, long-term outcome and how this is being researched in counseling today (just myself and intern therapist). I won't go into all that because it is a little lengthy and might be controversial. But it did make me feel better about our short -term goals and "ideal", long-term goals for difficult child. One thing that sticks out in my mind is that I consider it a little different if an adult is confident about their diagnosis and knows they need their medications to be able to have the quality of life they want. No one should ever try to convince that person to stop taking their medications, obviously. But when we are parents giving our kids medications and we aren't sure that the medications might not be appropriate or that they might be doing harm in some other way, or if we're in a position that we aren't confident about the diagnosis or the kid is an older teenager who isn't comfortable with it either, I cannot view that the same as the adult making their own informed decision about themself. Nor can I view it the same as a parent who refuses to give a kid medications when they clearly need them for safety. In difficult child's case, right now he has to have them- there's no question about that and he takes them. But, as I said before, the day [I]might[/I] come (a few years from now) when I am not as sure that he still has to have them, or that he wants to try coming off them, and I'd rather try it while he's still a minor and living at home. As long as the only choice is either mania/suicidal tendencies and having better mental ability OR being stable and having less mental ability, difficult child stays on medications. [/QUOTE]
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