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13 year old in psychiatric ward for first time
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<blockquote data-quote="Otto von Bismark" data-source="post: 466208" data-attributes="member: 12905"><p>Thank you. Let me ask you all about how a doctor might go about diagnosis for ADD.</p><p>We took my 17 year old daughter to this same psychiatrist last week for help with considering first time ADD medications....we have had the appointment for about 6 weeks, long before the stuff with my son hit the fan.</p><p></p><p>He asked her a few questions, took a 10 minute history from us, then when my daughter asked about adderal, which a friend of hers used as an older teen with much success, he shut her down completely, and told us she was too skinny for a stimulant, and he refused to consider anything other than Strattera. We took home a sample, and read up on it. I didn't really think about her needing an SSRI, and I understand a reluctance to give a stimulant for someone with ADD and some anxiety, but I was thinking we would get some guidance on diagnosis before walking out with an SSRI twenty minutes after we went it. </p><p></p><p>Now, this could be completely normal. He could be so very good at diagnoses that he can do it in his sleep. I don't know how this type of thing works. Is it normal? Can we judge anything about how he will be with my son by how he was with my ADD teen?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Otto von Bismark, post: 466208, member: 12905"] Thank you. Let me ask you all about how a doctor might go about diagnosis for ADD. We took my 17 year old daughter to this same psychiatrist last week for help with considering first time ADD medications....we have had the appointment for about 6 weeks, long before the stuff with my son hit the fan. He asked her a few questions, took a 10 minute history from us, then when my daughter asked about adderal, which a friend of hers used as an older teen with much success, he shut her down completely, and told us she was too skinny for a stimulant, and he refused to consider anything other than Strattera. We took home a sample, and read up on it. I didn't really think about her needing an SSRI, and I understand a reluctance to give a stimulant for someone with ADD and some anxiety, but I was thinking we would get some guidance on diagnosis before walking out with an SSRI twenty minutes after we went it. Now, this could be completely normal. He could be so very good at diagnoses that he can do it in his sleep. I don't know how this type of thing works. Is it normal? Can we judge anything about how he will be with my son by how he was with my ADD teen? [/QUOTE]
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