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Ok, so I went to the DV shelter today
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<blockquote data-quote="Josie" data-source="post: 136351" data-attributes="member: 1792"><p>I understand your feelings of being totally against medicine for your child. </p><p></p><p>I had a personal experience that changed my feelings about it. About 4 years ago, my daughter hurt her back and was out of school for 6 weeks. During this time, I decided I was depressed and asked my doctor for an a/d. The very first day that I took it, I felt like I must have been depressed my whole life. I wasn't irritated by the things that used to irritate me, that I thought would irritate anyone. </p><p></p><p>I had more control over myself than difficult child 1 did. I didn't scream and hit people. But I did always have an irritated tone in my voice at home. I knew I needed to work on it but the words would just be out of my mouth before I could stop them. Once I got on that a/d, I wasn't irritated by little things anymore and the tone just went away. That made me truly believe that there is some chemical process that affects our mood. So it made me feel that it would be unfair to difficult child to expect her to cope with something that wasn't really in her control when help was available.</p><p></p><p>I knew there were risks to the medicine but I knew there were risks to her being without the medicine, too.</p><p></p><p>As it turns out, I later discovered that difficult child 1's and my problems with depression were really caused by a food allergy. We eliminated the foods and don't need the a/d any more. But again, the food was changing our brain chemistry, in a bad way, and making it difficult to cope with frustration, anger, anxiety, etc. difficult child 1 is a pretty typical pre-teen unless she eats the wrong food. Then it is right back to the old difficult child ways.</p><p></p><p>All of this convinces me that some of these kids really can't control themselves, through no fault of their own. </p><p></p><p>I hope this doesn't offend you. You know your child best. I just wanted to share my own experience with medications and how they helped me.</p><p></p><p>Since you are opposed to medications, have you tried any diet changes? We are gluten and casein free. It has made a big difference. We do have to be super, super strict for it to work, though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Josie, post: 136351, member: 1792"] I understand your feelings of being totally against medicine for your child. I had a personal experience that changed my feelings about it. About 4 years ago, my daughter hurt her back and was out of school for 6 weeks. During this time, I decided I was depressed and asked my doctor for an a/d. The very first day that I took it, I felt like I must have been depressed my whole life. I wasn't irritated by the things that used to irritate me, that I thought would irritate anyone. I had more control over myself than difficult child 1 did. I didn't scream and hit people. But I did always have an irritated tone in my voice at home. I knew I needed to work on it but the words would just be out of my mouth before I could stop them. Once I got on that a/d, I wasn't irritated by little things anymore and the tone just went away. That made me truly believe that there is some chemical process that affects our mood. So it made me feel that it would be unfair to difficult child to expect her to cope with something that wasn't really in her control when help was available. I knew there were risks to the medicine but I knew there were risks to her being without the medicine, too. As it turns out, I later discovered that difficult child 1's and my problems with depression were really caused by a food allergy. We eliminated the foods and don't need the a/d any more. But again, the food was changing our brain chemistry, in a bad way, and making it difficult to cope with frustration, anger, anxiety, etc. difficult child 1 is a pretty typical pre-teen unless she eats the wrong food. Then it is right back to the old difficult child ways. All of this convinces me that some of these kids really can't control themselves, through no fault of their own. I hope this doesn't offend you. You know your child best. I just wanted to share my own experience with medications and how they helped me. Since you are opposed to medications, have you tried any diet changes? We are gluten and casein free. It has made a big difference. We do have to be super, super strict for it to work, though. [/QUOTE]
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