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[quote="MidwestMom, post: 634377, member: 1550"]in my opinion, having suffered from anxiety disorders and panic disorder (and at one time even a form of agoraphobia) plus having had a daughter who cut, your easy child is not a bad kid, but one who is in need of mental health treatment. I would say she needs more than a NP. I mean, I love NPs and use one as my Primary, but she is experiencing mental health problems. I have no idea why a psychiatrist would pass her to an NP, but I'd get a different psychiatrist's opinion. Are you in the US? If not, it may be different for you and you may not be able to do that.)quote


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We see a licensed therapist every other week, then the nurse practitioner who prescribes the medications.  We live in a small town in the Midwest, and there are no psychs who actually treat people under 18.  The one that we saw just does testing.  I guess we do not have enough psychiatric staff to see the patients.  The nurse works under a psychiatric, who oversees the prescriptions.  They did do DNA testing to help find the right medications.


I wish we had more options but right now, we don't.  I guess a lot of our issues go back to their mom not being there for them.  Even though we adopted, we tried to let them continue to have contact because the girls wanted it.  But then 4 years ago she moved 1500 miles away and didn't tell them.  She only calls sporadically, and then has been promising them she is moving back for over the past year.  I know that makes things tough on both girls.   Ksm

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