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husband refuses medication for difficult child. Is there anything I can do
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<blockquote data-quote="slsh" data-source="post: 362355" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>Your husband is on medications. Do they help him? Does he feel better when he is taking them? If so, why on earth would he deny his child the possibility of receiving benefit from medications?</p><p></p><p>I look at it this way (and I was staunchly anti-medication many years ago). medications are not a cure. They're a tool. If they could potentially give a child a better chance to grow and learn, how could you *not* try?</p><p></p><p>The best explanation I've ever seen on this board is this example: If your child were a diabetic, would you deny them insulin simply because you're "anti-medication"? What is the difference between diabetes and mental illness? Untreated, they both have the potential to severely affect the quality of your child's life.</p><p></p><p>I hope you and husband and psychiatrist are able to come to a meeting of the minds on this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slsh, post: 362355, member: 8"] Your husband is on medications. Do they help him? Does he feel better when he is taking them? If so, why on earth would he deny his child the possibility of receiving benefit from medications? I look at it this way (and I was staunchly anti-medication many years ago). medications are not a cure. They're a tool. If they could potentially give a child a better chance to grow and learn, how could you *not* try? The best explanation I've ever seen on this board is this example: If your child were a diabetic, would you deny them insulin simply because you're "anti-medication"? What is the difference between diabetes and mental illness? Untreated, they both have the potential to severely affect the quality of your child's life. I hope you and husband and psychiatrist are able to come to a meeting of the minds on this. [/QUOTE]
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