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<blockquote data-quote="Hopeful97" data-source="post: 678079" data-attributes="member: 19678"><p>Troubledchild,</p><p></p><p>I have an 18 yr old son. Started having symptoms of mental illness very young, first diagnosis age 9. I can suggest a couple of things, make sure the psychiatrist specializes in child and/or adolescent psychiatry. Make sure the counselor/therapist speciality is children/adolescents. My experience is specializing with children/adolescents/young adults is very important as their brains are still developing, medications must be carefully chosen and their should be good communication between psychiatrist, therapist and parents.Your daughter is young enough (as was my son) that those lines of communication should be open.</p><p></p><p>At your daughter's age you cannot make her take her medications. With my son around age 12 or 13 we had to watch him take the medications, literately watch him swallow and make him stick out his tongue and check his mouth all over. That only lasted a short time. There are a lot of tricks some learned from time spent in hospital. </p><p></p><p>The blood testing is fairly new and not always accurate. Not saying that it wouldn't be an option. </p><p></p><p>There is a lot of hit and miss but you can find tools that are and will be helpful. It takes time, educating yourself and passing onto child as best we can. If interested there are pics of brain scans out there that show a "normal" brain next to brains with various mental illnesses and you can see the extreme differences and discover some of what area controls various emotional functions, what chemicals are missing or that there are not enough of or that there are to many of. A good site is <a href="http://www.psychcentral.com" target="_blank">www.psychcentral.com</a> very educational.</p><p></p><p>There is an organization that has tons of resources and information, they have locations all over the USA. A wonderful organization..</p><p><a href="http://www.nami.org" target="_blank">www.nami.org</a> well worth checking out a priceless asset for those with mental illness and anyone's life touched by mental illness in any way shape or form.</p><p></p><p>I hope this helps.</p><p>Prayers for you and wife..</p><p></p><p></p><p>Hugs</p><p>Hopeful</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hopeful97, post: 678079, member: 19678"] Troubledchild, I have an 18 yr old son. Started having symptoms of mental illness very young, first diagnosis age 9. I can suggest a couple of things, make sure the psychiatrist specializes in child and/or adolescent psychiatry. Make sure the counselor/therapist speciality is children/adolescents. My experience is specializing with children/adolescents/young adults is very important as their brains are still developing, medications must be carefully chosen and their should be good communication between psychiatrist, therapist and parents.Your daughter is young enough (as was my son) that those lines of communication should be open. At your daughter's age you cannot make her take her medications. With my son around age 12 or 13 we had to watch him take the medications, literately watch him swallow and make him stick out his tongue and check his mouth all over. That only lasted a short time. There are a lot of tricks some learned from time spent in hospital. The blood testing is fairly new and not always accurate. Not saying that it wouldn't be an option. There is a lot of hit and miss but you can find tools that are and will be helpful. It takes time, educating yourself and passing onto child as best we can. If interested there are pics of brain scans out there that show a "normal" brain next to brains with various mental illnesses and you can see the extreme differences and discover some of what area controls various emotional functions, what chemicals are missing or that there are not enough of or that there are to many of. A good site is [URL='http://www.psychcentral.com']www.psychcentral.com[/URL] very educational. There is an organization that has tons of resources and information, they have locations all over the USA. A wonderful organization.. [URL='http://www.nami.org']www.nami.org[/URL] well worth checking out a priceless asset for those with mental illness and anyone's life touched by mental illness in any way shape or form. I hope this helps. Prayers for you and wife.. Hugs Hopeful [/QUOTE]
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