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<blockquote data-quote="in a daze" data-source="post: 665187" data-attributes="member: 15832"><p>Try, I'm still waiting for the magic bullet to come along. He is better in some ways but like your son suffers from social and generalized anxiety that keeps him from creating a better life for himself. Our dream for him is that he become self supporting and have a life with friends and activities, but this may never come to pass. He is the only one that can do it, and he's got all the resources...a good highly recommended psychiatrist, a caseworker, a therapist, and a supportive family. He's been sober for 2 years and that has helped, but that's just one of his many problems.</p><p></p><p>And I just read the article you posted. I hate how "fads" come and go in psychiatry. Now these "fads" can even be harmful...remember in the early part of the 20th century when they were doing lobotomies? I think labeling people who are irritable and non responsive to antidepressants bipolar is a fad, as was ADHD about 20 years ago. I resisted putting my kid on stimulants until he was 13, and even then despite all the Learning Disability (LD) support he was getting at school, and tutors, etc, I didn't see this miraculous transformation that we were assured would happen when I finally relented and put him on Adderal.</p><p></p><p>I was so reluctant, because I just didn't see the science behind it. I just wasn't convinced it was right for him, but I relented anyway.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm not saying that ADHD doesn't exist, or that people can't have bipolar symptoms that are subtle. Our kids are just too complicated to be labeled with a broad brush.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="in a daze, post: 665187, member: 15832"] Try, I'm still waiting for the magic bullet to come along. He is better in some ways but like your son suffers from social and generalized anxiety that keeps him from creating a better life for himself. Our dream for him is that he become self supporting and have a life with friends and activities, but this may never come to pass. He is the only one that can do it, and he's got all the resources...a good highly recommended psychiatrist, a caseworker, a therapist, and a supportive family. He's been sober for 2 years and that has helped, but that's just one of his many problems. And I just read the article you posted. I hate how "fads" come and go in psychiatry. Now these "fads" can even be harmful...remember in the early part of the 20th century when they were doing lobotomies? I think labeling people who are irritable and non responsive to antidepressants bipolar is a fad, as was ADHD about 20 years ago. I resisted putting my kid on stimulants until he was 13, and even then despite all the Learning Disability (LD) support he was getting at school, and tutors, etc, I didn't see this miraculous transformation that we were assured would happen when I finally relented and put him on Adderal. I was so reluctant, because I just didn't see the science behind it. I just wasn't convinced it was right for him, but I relented anyway. I'm not saying that ADHD doesn't exist, or that people can't have bipolar symptoms that are subtle. Our kids are just too complicated to be labeled with a broad brush. [/QUOTE]
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