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<blockquote data-quote="recovering doormat" data-source="post: 271620" data-attributes="member: 5941"><p>My son managed to get high even when we gave him no money. Someone around him always seemed to have a joint or two. The behaviorist who worked with us said don't pay him for chores, don't give him money for the movies, let him sell his Xbox or computer or cell phone if he wants money that badly. Never happened. However, that didn't stop his pot smoking friends from smashing two windows to get into my house to steal his iMac desktop computer, which they traded for two bags of weed (happy ending: we got the computer back, but alas, no one to hold responsible for the $330. to fix my thermoglazed windows).</p><p> </p><p>medications are so frustrating to get right. My son's diagnosis is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and Dysthymia but he was always medicated like he had bipolar (zoloft + risperadal, then Depakote for a while...buspar...seroquel to help him sleep). medications did help him sleep but then he was a zombie in the morning and that interfered with school. No medications for the past two years, last psychiatrist wanted to put him on a low dose of Prozac (has worked wonders for his older sister, who is MDD and PMDD) in hopes that taking the edge off the anxiety and depression would help keep him from self-medicating with weed. Problem is, my son can't be trusted to take his medications and he lives with his dad, who is anti-medications and not invested in having him take them. What is your son like when he's not on anything? medications mixed with recreational pot use made my older child very depressed and nearly suicidal -- once she got a joint laced with PCP that put her in the psychiatric hospital for a week.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="recovering doormat, post: 271620, member: 5941"] My son managed to get high even when we gave him no money. Someone around him always seemed to have a joint or two. The behaviorist who worked with us said don't pay him for chores, don't give him money for the movies, let him sell his Xbox or computer or cell phone if he wants money that badly. Never happened. However, that didn't stop his pot smoking friends from smashing two windows to get into my house to steal his iMac desktop computer, which they traded for two bags of weed (happy ending: we got the computer back, but alas, no one to hold responsible for the $330. to fix my thermoglazed windows). medications are so frustrating to get right. My son's diagnosis is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and Dysthymia but he was always medicated like he had bipolar (zoloft + risperadal, then Depakote for a while...buspar...seroquel to help him sleep). medications did help him sleep but then he was a zombie in the morning and that interfered with school. No medications for the past two years, last psychiatrist wanted to put him on a low dose of Prozac (has worked wonders for his older sister, who is MDD and PMDD) in hopes that taking the edge off the anxiety and depression would help keep him from self-medicating with weed. Problem is, my son can't be trusted to take his medications and he lives with his dad, who is anti-medications and not invested in having him take them. What is your son like when he's not on anything? medications mixed with recreational pot use made my older child very depressed and nearly suicidal -- once she got a joint laced with PCP that put her in the psychiatric hospital for a week. [/QUOTE]
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