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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 568365" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>Buddy, thanks, hadn't thought about medications in this. of course right now it is very difficult for anyone to say which could be about medications, which is environmental. difficult child's sport struggles have continued and he has had some big disappointments lately. This type of situation would be a huge stressor for any young athlete but of course difficult child is more prone than the most. His struggles are not the end of the world or even his sport career, but that is something that is very difficult for any 19-year-old athlete to believe. They say that tough times strengthen the character, but it is so darn hard when you are in the middle of them. Good news is that in some ways difficult child is soldiering on better than expected, he isn't about to give up, he isn't slacking on his practising, he is not talking about quitting, he isn't even bad mouthing his coach and blaming him (at least not that much) and all those could had been expected, they are kind of 'normal reaction' for this kind of situation (and yeah, the situation is common enough that coaches etc. do know how kids usually react when they hit this type of the wall.) </p><p></p><p>difficult child really started BuSpar some time ago. After a month it seemed that some things they are monitoring (sleep, irritability, resting heart rate etc.) had gotten better, but difficult child wasn't feeling much difference. difficult child and team's medical staff record stuff like this (I think other than heart rate changes, which is also an information they need for training, difficult child's is keeping sleep diary and documenting anxiety attacks and giving every day a grade for his anxiety level for the day, staff is also marking daily how they see his anxiety level. They are very systematic and through on it and try to find if and how the medications influence these patterns. I think difficult child has his next psychiatrist appointment in early January and I'm sure they go through that data then. I have to tell difficult child to ask about possibility of a medication in fact escalating things instead of helping.</p><p></p><p>There has been times this fall I have thought about how much easier some things would be if difficult child would quit sport. But I do know he doesn't want to do that and he would likely have huge regrets over that later if he did. And then again, while it would take a lot of pressure off, it wouldn't fix difficult child. And it would also take off a lot of excellent support he is getting and it would be giving up his strengths. Because of the sport he at least has to keep trying with other parts of his life, especially socially. If he would be your average college student, it would be so easy for him to exclude and isolate himself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 568365, member: 14557"] Buddy, thanks, hadn't thought about medications in this. of course right now it is very difficult for anyone to say which could be about medications, which is environmental. difficult child's sport struggles have continued and he has had some big disappointments lately. This type of situation would be a huge stressor for any young athlete but of course difficult child is more prone than the most. His struggles are not the end of the world or even his sport career, but that is something that is very difficult for any 19-year-old athlete to believe. They say that tough times strengthen the character, but it is so darn hard when you are in the middle of them. Good news is that in some ways difficult child is soldiering on better than expected, he isn't about to give up, he isn't slacking on his practising, he is not talking about quitting, he isn't even bad mouthing his coach and blaming him (at least not that much) and all those could had been expected, they are kind of 'normal reaction' for this kind of situation (and yeah, the situation is common enough that coaches etc. do know how kids usually react when they hit this type of the wall.) difficult child really started BuSpar some time ago. After a month it seemed that some things they are monitoring (sleep, irritability, resting heart rate etc.) had gotten better, but difficult child wasn't feeling much difference. difficult child and team's medical staff record stuff like this (I think other than heart rate changes, which is also an information they need for training, difficult child's is keeping sleep diary and documenting anxiety attacks and giving every day a grade for his anxiety level for the day, staff is also marking daily how they see his anxiety level. They are very systematic and through on it and try to find if and how the medications influence these patterns. I think difficult child has his next psychiatrist appointment in early January and I'm sure they go through that data then. I have to tell difficult child to ask about possibility of a medication in fact escalating things instead of helping. There has been times this fall I have thought about how much easier some things would be if difficult child would quit sport. But I do know he doesn't want to do that and he would likely have huge regrets over that later if he did. And then again, while it would take a lot of pressure off, it wouldn't fix difficult child. And it would also take off a lot of excellent support he is getting and it would be giving up his strengths. Because of the sport he at least has to keep trying with other parts of his life, especially socially. If he would be your average college student, it would be so easy for him to exclude and isolate himself. [/QUOTE]
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