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<blockquote data-quote="ellenr1" data-source="post: 55391" data-attributes="member: 2547"><p>Our 17 yr old, diagnosis'd with Major Depressive Disorder five years ago, has been on Zoloft, Lexapro, Risperadal (to control impulsivity - she has a history of suicidal gestures), Lamictal (replaced the risperadal)Welbutrin, Effexor, Abilify, then finally no medications for one month (this past March). </p><p></p><p>During this period, she has had four hospitalizations. She was a cutter as well, and experimented with marijuana in the middle of this. </p><p></p><p>During her last hospitalization in April, we tried Prozac, the one SSRI approved for children, and one we hadn't tried before. She takes 70 mg. and is doing better now than she has for the past six years, at least. </p><p></p><p>I totally sympathize with parents whose kids are on a cocktail of medications. When there is more than one you just don't know which is the problem. Matters were complicated for us when we found out that our daughter would periodically "forget" to take her pills or cheek them because she was sick of being on medications. We have had plenty of experience with antidepressant withdrawal.</p><p></p><p>Lamictal's a good drug, but I can't tell you it helped her. We saw so many docs who just threw pills at us for everything (she had one panic attack, the doctor handed me a scrip for Xanax. I threw it out as soon as I got home).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ellenr1, post: 55391, member: 2547"] Our 17 yr old, diagnosis'd with Major Depressive Disorder five years ago, has been on Zoloft, Lexapro, Risperadal (to control impulsivity - she has a history of suicidal gestures), Lamictal (replaced the risperadal)Welbutrin, Effexor, Abilify, then finally no medications for one month (this past March). During this period, she has had four hospitalizations. She was a cutter as well, and experimented with marijuana in the middle of this. During her last hospitalization in April, we tried Prozac, the one SSRI approved for children, and one we hadn't tried before. She takes 70 mg. and is doing better now than she has for the past six years, at least. I totally sympathize with parents whose kids are on a cocktail of medications. When there is more than one you just don't know which is the problem. Matters were complicated for us when we found out that our daughter would periodically "forget" to take her pills or cheek them because she was sick of being on medications. We have had plenty of experience with antidepressant withdrawal. Lamictal's a good drug, but I can't tell you it helped her. We saw so many docs who just threw pills at us for everything (she had one panic attack, the doctor handed me a scrip for Xanax. I threw it out as soon as I got home). [/QUOTE]
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