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24 year old son severely depressed, I'm at wits end
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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 658045" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Hi and welcome. Glad you found us... sorry you had to.</p><p> </p><p>A couple different angles come to mind from your post.</p><p> </p><p>Does your son have a therapist? A psychiatrist really just handles medications for mind disorders - he needs direct personal therapy to deal with depression. Medication alone will not cure depression. You have to change how you think. For this to work, he has to want help, though.</p><p> </p><p>If you suspect your husband has Asperger's... what are the chances your son also has some of those traits? He seems just a bit out of step with the real world, which wouldn't be unusual for an Aspie. And often they are smart but can't figure out that sometimes you have to fit in with the system. (But MOM, they keep breaking the "rules", and I can't do that.) </p><p> </p><p>Has he ever had a comprehensive evaluation? If not, or if it was some time back, I'd be pushing the psychiatrist to recommend that he be tested, and to point you in the right direction. Not because YOU think he has Asperger's (trust me, doctors don't like it when parents diagnose) but because "there HAS to be something more going on, and we need to know what we are dealing with".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 658045, member: 11791"] Hi and welcome. Glad you found us... sorry you had to. A couple different angles come to mind from your post. Does your son have a therapist? A psychiatrist really just handles medications for mind disorders - he needs direct personal therapy to deal with depression. Medication alone will not cure depression. You have to change how you think. For this to work, he has to want help, though. If you suspect your husband has Asperger's... what are the chances your son also has some of those traits? He seems just a bit out of step with the real world, which wouldn't be unusual for an Aspie. And often they are smart but can't figure out that sometimes you have to fit in with the system. (But MOM, they keep breaking the "rules", and I can't do that.) Has he ever had a comprehensive evaluation? If not, or if it was some time back, I'd be pushing the psychiatrist to recommend that he be tested, and to point you in the right direction. Not because YOU think he has Asperger's (trust me, doctors don't like it when parents diagnose) but because "there HAS to be something more going on, and we need to know what we are dealing with". [/QUOTE]
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