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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 161982" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Hi and welcome!</p><p> </p><p>I am sure that it seems that getting a child used to taking medications would make it easier for the child to take drugs. I have read several reputable studies that show that chldren who are properly medicated for ADHD and other problems actually have a much LOWER risk of taking drugs. The medications let them be who they are, keep anxiety and other problems in control. Having no medications is a major reason why many people with psychiatric disorders end up as alcoholics and drug addicts - they are self medicating with what they can get.</p><p> </p><p>Medication IS a tough choice, and a personal one. but if it is needed, it is needed. And your child is NOT thriving. medications are NOT an easy road, it takes a LOT of time to find the right medications and right doses. (For my epileptic pcdau Jess it took almost an entire YEAR to get her epilepsy medications right. And we had to homeschool because she simply could NOT function she was having absence seizures and missing over 1/2 of each class!)</p><p> </p><p>A number of our parents have gone the TBS/emotional growth boarding school route, and have had very good results.</p><p> </p><p>I do wonder if they have explore reactive attachment disorder or other attachment disorders? Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) and CD look very similar. (I am very sorry if either diagnosis is the right one - neither is an easy thing to face for anyone in the family.)</p><p> </p><p>have you read Parenting the Hurt Child by Keck, or any other books by Keck on Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)?? </p><p> </p><p>I suggest this because Conduct Disorder has being 18 as one of the diagnostic criteria. I wonder who diagnosed him and what they based it on? And if they have read the diagnostic criteria??</p><p> </p><p>However you go, I know you ahve the best interests of hte child and the family in mind.</p><p> </p><p>Hugs,</p><p> </p><p>Susie</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 161982, member: 1233"] Hi and welcome! I am sure that it seems that getting a child used to taking medications would make it easier for the child to take drugs. I have read several reputable studies that show that chldren who are properly medicated for ADHD and other problems actually have a much LOWER risk of taking drugs. The medications let them be who they are, keep anxiety and other problems in control. Having no medications is a major reason why many people with psychiatric disorders end up as alcoholics and drug addicts - they are self medicating with what they can get. Medication IS a tough choice, and a personal one. but if it is needed, it is needed. And your child is NOT thriving. medications are NOT an easy road, it takes a LOT of time to find the right medications and right doses. (For my epileptic pcdau Jess it took almost an entire YEAR to get her epilepsy medications right. And we had to homeschool because she simply could NOT function she was having absence seizures and missing over 1/2 of each class!) A number of our parents have gone the TBS/emotional growth boarding school route, and have had very good results. I do wonder if they have explore reactive attachment disorder or other attachment disorders? Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) and CD look very similar. (I am very sorry if either diagnosis is the right one - neither is an easy thing to face for anyone in the family.) have you read Parenting the Hurt Child by Keck, or any other books by Keck on Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)?? I suggest this because Conduct Disorder has being 18 as one of the diagnostic criteria. I wonder who diagnosed him and what they based it on? And if they have read the diagnostic criteria?? However you go, I know you ahve the best interests of hte child and the family in mind. Hugs, Susie [/QUOTE]
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