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<blockquote data-quote="Running_for_the_shelter" data-source="post: 438308" data-attributes="member: 2960"><p>I wasn't thrilled about medicating my son when he was four, but we spent a fair bit of time trying other choices first and I wish I had tried the medications earlier. We would have all been happier. His therapist finally told me that even the wrong medication at the wrong dose (within reason, of course!) would be less harmful than all the stress hormones coursing through my son's body at that time. That made some sense to me. It took a few trials with different drugs, but the Lamictal has calmed the firestorm in his brain. I wish they had had something like that when I was his age. It feels awful to be so angry, so stressed, and constantly at war with the world. Now there is some peace. No, he isn't going to be shy and quiet unless he's so drugged to the point of semi-consciousness, but his life has improved with medications. All of our lives. It's sort of like if you're out in the cold somewhere -- a good down jacket with hood and ski gloves would be ideal, but you wouldn't turn down a good, thick sweater simply because it doesn't keep all of the cold away. And perhaps the right drugs could take your son from his current state to one so much better. We try add-on drugs every now and then to see if we can get difficult child up to something more closely approximating "normal".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Running_for_the_shelter, post: 438308, member: 2960"] I wasn't thrilled about medicating my son when he was four, but we spent a fair bit of time trying other choices first and I wish I had tried the medications earlier. We would have all been happier. His therapist finally told me that even the wrong medication at the wrong dose (within reason, of course!) would be less harmful than all the stress hormones coursing through my son's body at that time. That made some sense to me. It took a few trials with different drugs, but the Lamictal has calmed the firestorm in his brain. I wish they had had something like that when I was his age. It feels awful to be so angry, so stressed, and constantly at war with the world. Now there is some peace. No, he isn't going to be shy and quiet unless he's so drugged to the point of semi-consciousness, but his life has improved with medications. All of our lives. It's sort of like if you're out in the cold somewhere -- a good down jacket with hood and ski gloves would be ideal, but you wouldn't turn down a good, thick sweater simply because it doesn't keep all of the cold away. And perhaps the right drugs could take your son from his current state to one so much better. We try add-on drugs every now and then to see if we can get difficult child up to something more closely approximating "normal". [/QUOTE]
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