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<blockquote data-quote="'Chelle" data-source="post: 232783" data-attributes="member: 1161"><p>I think you're right to question any side effect you think you're seeing when putting your child on these medications. They're still doing studies on lots of them as to how they affect kids, so I think a parent is always on the right side to be a little cautious when putting a child on them.</p><p></p><p>Our difficult child was on zoloft for about 2 years, and I didn't make the decision lightly either. I read up totally on the medication and watched for side effects too, and worried the whole time about whether it was right to put him on them. However, for him it was necessary I believe. His anxiety, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) tendancies and perfectionism, and probably some depression over the years of thinking he was bad and always seeming to be in trouble, would just not let him see the choices he was making, and he couldn't apply any strategies we were trying to teach him. The zoloft helped calm him just enough that he could understand what therapist, psychiatrist and parents were telling him as ways to succeed at school etc., and once he did learn them, we were able to take him off and now he's been medication-free 2 years and doing well. We never got a "wow" factor either, he still had issues, but I did notice the difference in that he could learn how to cope and help himself. We only went up to about 1/2 what his max dose could have been, might have got more wow with a larger dose LOL.</p><p></p><p>Try not listen to what friends, family, etc say about medications. It's their opinion, which may not be right for your difficult child and you. You know your difficult child and only you can really tell if it's helping him. Even our difficult child couldn't tell LOL, he always said he didn't feel any different taking the zoloft, but we could see a difference.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="'Chelle, post: 232783, member: 1161"] I think you're right to question any side effect you think you're seeing when putting your child on these medications. They're still doing studies on lots of them as to how they affect kids, so I think a parent is always on the right side to be a little cautious when putting a child on them. Our difficult child was on zoloft for about 2 years, and I didn't make the decision lightly either. I read up totally on the medication and watched for side effects too, and worried the whole time about whether it was right to put him on them. However, for him it was necessary I believe. His anxiety, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) tendancies and perfectionism, and probably some depression over the years of thinking he was bad and always seeming to be in trouble, would just not let him see the choices he was making, and he couldn't apply any strategies we were trying to teach him. The zoloft helped calm him just enough that he could understand what therapist, psychiatrist and parents were telling him as ways to succeed at school etc., and once he did learn them, we were able to take him off and now he's been medication-free 2 years and doing well. We never got a "wow" factor either, he still had issues, but I did notice the difference in that he could learn how to cope and help himself. We only went up to about 1/2 what his max dose could have been, might have got more wow with a larger dose LOL. Try not listen to what friends, family, etc say about medications. It's their opinion, which may not be right for your difficult child and you. You know your difficult child and only you can really tell if it's helping him. Even our difficult child couldn't tell LOL, he always said he didn't feel any different taking the zoloft, but we could see a difference. [/QUOTE]
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