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<blockquote data-quote="LoneStar14" data-source="post: 146069" data-attributes="member: 4947"><p>Thanks Susie Star. He was just prescribed this today after meeting with a psychiatrist. This was his first consultation with this particular doctor but had been interviewed by others at this facility. I think they expected us to run out and get it filled and start giving it to him tomorrow. Their rationale was that they have a short amount of time to see how he reacts to this medicine/dosage. I had some time to do some research and really had some concerns about it, including the withdrawal affect.</p><p> </p><p>Here's our dilemna. We acknowledge he was depressed. We also acknowledge he had begun to self injure. We also know that he and two other friends were going through the same feelings/self injury. Together, they would commisserate (sp?) about how bad they had it. We started to notice a slight change in him when he started hanging around them. Everything came to a clash when we decided to meet with the other parents and things came out in the open. He had successfully painted a terrible picture about us, which was disproved once they met us. </p><p> </p><p>To make a long story short, all communication has been stopped between the 3 of them and each family is seeking help for their child. Since then, we've seen a big change (positive) in him, at least at home. I asked him today if he was still depressed (he's been really happy at home). He said yes because he couldn't see is his friends. I asked him when was the last time he had suicidal thoughts and its been over 3 weeks. I'm wondering if he's confusing sadness with depression. We want to work through the reasons why he was depressed and give him coping strategies for when he gets sad and angry.</p><p> </p><p>The reason he's been depressed is because he gets grounded for disobeying the rules, not doing his school work, taking things, etc. Then he gets upset he can't do things or he can't keep friends. He's behind in social skills. We admit it's not all his fault. Somewhere along the line, we got into a catch-22 situation. We want to get him help. We don't want to deny him medication he needs. But, we also don't want to get him started on something he doesn't need and the 'fix' will be worse than the problem.</p><p> </p><p>We didn't get to meet with the psychiatrist to express our concerns. However, we will get to meet with a therapist in family conseling, which the doctor recommended we do right away. We're scheduling tomorrow, hopefully for tomorrow.</p><p> </p><p>I appreciate any insight. I'm going to go and do some more research. Thanks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LoneStar14, post: 146069, member: 4947"] Thanks Susie Star. He was just prescribed this today after meeting with a psychiatrist. This was his first consultation with this particular doctor but had been interviewed by others at this facility. I think they expected us to run out and get it filled and start giving it to him tomorrow. Their rationale was that they have a short amount of time to see how he reacts to this medicine/dosage. I had some time to do some research and really had some concerns about it, including the withdrawal affect. Here's our dilemna. We acknowledge he was depressed. We also acknowledge he had begun to self injure. We also know that he and two other friends were going through the same feelings/self injury. Together, they would commisserate (sp?) about how bad they had it. We started to notice a slight change in him when he started hanging around them. Everything came to a clash when we decided to meet with the other parents and things came out in the open. He had successfully painted a terrible picture about us, which was disproved once they met us. To make a long story short, all communication has been stopped between the 3 of them and each family is seeking help for their child. Since then, we've seen a big change (positive) in him, at least at home. I asked him today if he was still depressed (he's been really happy at home). He said yes because he couldn't see is his friends. I asked him when was the last time he had suicidal thoughts and its been over 3 weeks. I'm wondering if he's confusing sadness with depression. We want to work through the reasons why he was depressed and give him coping strategies for when he gets sad and angry. The reason he's been depressed is because he gets grounded for disobeying the rules, not doing his school work, taking things, etc. Then he gets upset he can't do things or he can't keep friends. He's behind in social skills. We admit it's not all his fault. Somewhere along the line, we got into a catch-22 situation. We want to get him help. We don't want to deny him medication he needs. But, we also don't want to get him started on something he doesn't need and the 'fix' will be worse than the problem. We didn't get to meet with the psychiatrist to express our concerns. However, we will get to meet with a therapist in family conseling, which the doctor recommended we do right away. We're scheduling tomorrow, hopefully for tomorrow. I appreciate any insight. I'm going to go and do some more research. Thanks. [/QUOTE]
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