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Can not get out of my head - comment from Residential Treatment Center (RTC)
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<blockquote data-quote="slsh" data-source="post: 104840" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>In my experience, normal. My son has had the "right" to refuse treatment and medications since age 12 (age of consent in IL for psychiatric treatment) and no placement he's ever been in, even before he was 12, would force him to take medications. There were consequences if he didn't, but he's pretty much always been able to refuse his maintenance medications. Only exception was when he was violent and had to be sedated.</p><p></p><p>in my humble opinion, at 14 I think it's not necessarily a bad thing to start getting him on board with treatment plan and involved/invested. If he wants to try to maintain himself without a higher dose and is able to actually do it, I think that's fantastic.</p><p></p><p>Edited to add: I also think, with my kid at least, for a very long time he really didn't make the connection between moods/behaviors and his medications. It took some practice and probably some periods of time when his medications weren't necessarily optimal for him to start making that connection.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slsh, post: 104840, member: 8"] In my experience, normal. My son has had the "right" to refuse treatment and medications since age 12 (age of consent in IL for psychiatric treatment) and no placement he's ever been in, even before he was 12, would force him to take medications. There were consequences if he didn't, but he's pretty much always been able to refuse his maintenance medications. Only exception was when he was violent and had to be sedated. in my humble opinion, at 14 I think it's not necessarily a bad thing to start getting him on board with treatment plan and involved/invested. If he wants to try to maintain himself without a higher dose and is able to actually do it, I think that's fantastic. Edited to add: I also think, with my kid at least, for a very long time he really didn't make the connection between moods/behaviors and his medications. It took some practice and probably some periods of time when his medications weren't necessarily optimal for him to start making that connection. [/QUOTE]
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