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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 285604" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>My guess is that medications are less likely over-prescribed for warrior moms. But, my mom''s generation used to have valium or something else rx'd just about any time a housewife went to the dr and he couldn't see obvious physical symptoms for something. </p><p></p><p>My original post was really a result of me thinking about our kids, though. Most of us have experienced tdocs who haven't been helpful with our difficult child's- either because our difficult child couldn't/wouldn't respoond to therapy, the therapist was focused on blaming the parent, only behavior mod was tried, or whatever. My thought is that it appears to me that a few times when we went through this, the therapist decided the difficult child must need medications or a medication adjustment. Honestly, I think there were times when the therapeutic approach was making things worse.</p><p></p><p>With situational depression, my opinion is that it depends on the severity of it. If a person is near suicide or can't function, then it's better to be on medications even if it's temporary. Still, a good therapist should be able to help work through the depression, whether the person is on medications or not. Now that I think about it, when I was seeing a therapist partly for depression, the therapist taught me how to "rethink" things and look at life and live life differently- no medications because I wasn't a danger. When my son had depressive symptoms, he was put on medications because he was viewed as a danger, but no therapist would talk to him about "life strategies" to teach him how to work through things- they only wanted to do behavior mod and when it didn't work, he needed medication adjustments. This is the part I will never understand. And, it does leave me thinking that maybe no medication combo will work because the root of his problem is not a chemical imbalance.</p><p></p><p>Obviously, with physical illnesses like diabetes or psychiatric illnesses like schizophrenia, medications are usually a necessity. And I don't blame anyone who takes medications for chronic pain or to improve quality of life.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 285604, member: 3699"] My guess is that medications are less likely over-prescribed for warrior moms. But, my mom''s generation used to have valium or something else rx'd just about any time a housewife went to the dr and he couldn't see obvious physical symptoms for something. My original post was really a result of me thinking about our kids, though. Most of us have experienced tdocs who haven't been helpful with our difficult child's- either because our difficult child couldn't/wouldn't respoond to therapy, the therapist was focused on blaming the parent, only behavior mod was tried, or whatever. My thought is that it appears to me that a few times when we went through this, the therapist decided the difficult child must need medications or a medication adjustment. Honestly, I think there were times when the therapeutic approach was making things worse. With situational depression, my opinion is that it depends on the severity of it. If a person is near suicide or can't function, then it's better to be on medications even if it's temporary. Still, a good therapist should be able to help work through the depression, whether the person is on medications or not. Now that I think about it, when I was seeing a therapist partly for depression, the therapist taught me how to "rethink" things and look at life and live life differently- no medications because I wasn't a danger. When my son had depressive symptoms, he was put on medications because he was viewed as a danger, but no therapist would talk to him about "life strategies" to teach him how to work through things- they only wanted to do behavior mod and when it didn't work, he needed medication adjustments. This is the part I will never understand. And, it does leave me thinking that maybe no medication combo will work because the root of his problem is not a chemical imbalance. Obviously, with physical illnesses like diabetes or psychiatric illnesses like schizophrenia, medications are usually a necessity. And I don't blame anyone who takes medications for chronic pain or to improve quality of life. [/QUOTE]
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