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Plain talk about medications and our children
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<blockquote data-quote="buddy" data-source="post: 485510" data-attributes="member: 12886"><p>good point nancy, Q's docs have said all along, that especially regarding the impulse control, judgement, frontal lobe things, there is a huge change (and I assume for chemicals too) as the child grows older. I can see that maybe your difficult child did need it, maybe it wasn't all about your convenience... it could be that her brain has matured enough now. In any event there are probably times where, though a child could do ok without it, if under a highly structured setting 24 hours a day where they were willing to deal with behaviors without medications ( a pipe dream, right?) then maybe we could feel badly about needing the medications in part for our sanity. But it is probably not all bad that medications, for some kids--not all--those with really serious behaviors, make the whole system they live in less stressful because, that will impact their overall lives and thus their ability to use better coping skills. It all feeds on everything else....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="buddy, post: 485510, member: 12886"] good point nancy, Q's docs have said all along, that especially regarding the impulse control, judgement, frontal lobe things, there is a huge change (and I assume for chemicals too) as the child grows older. I can see that maybe your difficult child did need it, maybe it wasn't all about your convenience... it could be that her brain has matured enough now. In any event there are probably times where, though a child could do ok without it, if under a highly structured setting 24 hours a day where they were willing to deal with behaviors without medications ( a pipe dream, right?) then maybe we could feel badly about needing the medications in part for our sanity. But it is probably not all bad that medications, for some kids--not all--those with really serious behaviors, make the whole system they live in less stressful because, that will impact their overall lives and thus their ability to use better coping skills. It all feeds on everything else.... [/QUOTE]
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