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Daughter keeps losing weight, won't eat.
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<blockquote data-quote="smallworld" data-source="post: 386674" data-attributes="member: 2423"><p>Hi Jen,</p><p></p><p>I had a long discussion with my own psychiatrist today about antipsychotics with regard to my daughter A, who is on Seroquel (62.5 mg) and had projective testing this summer. Her testing showed that she has significant difficulties with reality testing, which leads her to form mistaken impressions of what other people are thinking and feeling. That leads her to become a bit paranoid and have some distorted thinking about what's really going on, particularly in social situations. My psychiatrist told me that Seroquel is a weak antipsychotic, and given the level of difficulty A is exhibiting, she believes A should be switched to a more robust antipsychotic like -- get this -- Zyprexa. </p><p></p><p>I know I sound like a broken record and I know you don't have a psychiatrist in place, but I truly believe C is not making progress because the medications are not strong enough to target her anxiety and distorted thinking around eating. You can blame her father and the lack of therapy and even a potential throat problem (we did the barium swallow test, too, and it turned up nothing), but the truth is she needs appropriate medications.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smallworld, post: 386674, member: 2423"] Hi Jen, I had a long discussion with my own psychiatrist today about antipsychotics with regard to my daughter A, who is on Seroquel (62.5 mg) and had projective testing this summer. Her testing showed that she has significant difficulties with reality testing, which leads her to form mistaken impressions of what other people are thinking and feeling. That leads her to become a bit paranoid and have some distorted thinking about what's really going on, particularly in social situations. My psychiatrist told me that Seroquel is a weak antipsychotic, and given the level of difficulty A is exhibiting, she believes A should be switched to a more robust antipsychotic like -- get this -- Zyprexa. I know I sound like a broken record and I know you don't have a psychiatrist in place, but I truly believe C is not making progress because the medications are not strong enough to target her anxiety and distorted thinking around eating. You can blame her father and the lack of therapy and even a potential throat problem (we did the barium swallow test, too, and it turned up nothing), but the truth is she needs appropriate medications. [/QUOTE]
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