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give me some insights into depressed kids....
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<blockquote data-quote="pepperidge" data-source="post: 465129" data-attributes="member: 2322"><p>Thanks, guy. </p><p></p><p>We did try SSRIs--he started knocking over desksin his class, shoplifting etc. Major disinhibition, not once but twice. Maybe as an adult he will be able to take them, but lamictal has really been key to his doing better.</p><p></p><p>We had a good talk with his therapist. Part of the family dynamic is that he knows how to play the depression card and get us to reduce our expectations of what he can accomplish. He doesn't do it consciously. But when he was unmedicated and depressed in elementary school it worked pretty well, he has us well trained. So it is always a balancing act to have reasonable expectations but taken into account with his real depressive tendencies. </p><p></p><p>You all help me to have compassion, there are times I just want to yell at him to knock it off. And times I just want to give up...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pepperidge, post: 465129, member: 2322"] Thanks, guy. We did try SSRIs--he started knocking over desksin his class, shoplifting etc. Major disinhibition, not once but twice. Maybe as an adult he will be able to take them, but lamictal has really been key to his doing better. We had a good talk with his therapist. Part of the family dynamic is that he knows how to play the depression card and get us to reduce our expectations of what he can accomplish. He doesn't do it consciously. But when he was unmedicated and depressed in elementary school it worked pretty well, he has us well trained. So it is always a balancing act to have reasonable expectations but taken into account with his real depressive tendencies. You all help me to have compassion, there are times I just want to yell at him to knock it off. And times I just want to give up... [/QUOTE]
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