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<blockquote data-quote="flutterbee" data-source="post: 124301"><p>Two things:</p><p></p><p>1. I was like you and refused to treat the symptoms until we had a somewhat firm diagnosis. I was not willing to just see how she would react to something. She was already spiraling hard and fast. A bad reaction to a medication would have put her over the edge. In hindsight, I can't say whether it was the right thing to do, but I went with my gut.</p><p></p><p>2. I wouldn't give any weight to the school psychologist. They don't have the same training as a psychologist in private practice. Our school psychologist didn't know what lexapro was and thought that her anxiety was stemming from her panic disorder, when actually panic disorder is a severe form of anxiety. The school wants her medicated to make it easier for them. For a while our SD refused to acknowledge there was anything wrong with difficult child, but that didn't stop them from recommending medications. How stupid is that?</p><p></p><p>Ok. 3 things. All the therapy in the world isn't going to help if you don't know what you're dealing with. If you don't know what you're dealing with you could find out that are using therapy to deal with symptoms that really have an underlying cause and until that underlying cause is addressed, you're just going to be spinning your wheels on working with the symptoms.</p><p></p><p>That's my two cents.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="flutterbee, post: 124301"] Two things: 1. I was like you and refused to treat the symptoms until we had a somewhat firm diagnosis. I was not willing to just see how she would react to something. She was already spiraling hard and fast. A bad reaction to a medication would have put her over the edge. In hindsight, I can't say whether it was the right thing to do, but I went with my gut. 2. I wouldn't give any weight to the school psychologist. They don't have the same training as a psychologist in private practice. Our school psychologist didn't know what lexapro was and thought that her anxiety was stemming from her panic disorder, when actually panic disorder is a severe form of anxiety. The school wants her medicated to make it easier for them. For a while our SD refused to acknowledge there was anything wrong with difficult child, but that didn't stop them from recommending medications. How stupid is that? Ok. 3 things. All the therapy in the world isn't going to help if you don't know what you're dealing with. If you don't know what you're dealing with you could find out that are using therapy to deal with symptoms that really have an underlying cause and until that underlying cause is addressed, you're just going to be spinning your wheels on working with the symptoms. That's my two cents. [/QUOTE]
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