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<blockquote data-quote="TeDo" data-source="post: 383529"><p>Welcome to the board. The people hear have been where you have been and have used a variety of methods to deal with the things you're dealing with. Take advantage of the advice you get. We have all been there, done that. </p><p> </p><p>I admire your wanting to handle this without medications. I was in the same place when my difficult child was that age. I didn't like the idea of a 5 year old being "on drugs". I was afraid of what it would do to him and that it would mean that I wasn't doing something right or it wouldn't be a problem. My school district wanted to kick him out of kindergarten and send him back to preschool. After all the fighting and getting nowhere, I finally agreed to try medication. I found a wonderful child psychiatrist that explained to me that medications don't cure, they just take the edge off so to speak so that he was better able to learn the proper way to deal with anger and anxiety I was trying to teach him. The medications she put him on have calmed him just enough so that we could make progress with the learning. There are so many medications out there that DO help. The psychiatric made a wonderful analogy for me to relate to. He said there are chemical imbalances in the brain that causes these types of things kind of like a diabetic's pancreas doesn't work right. A diabetic, depending on how bad the pancreas is acting, needs insulin to help do what the pancreas isn't doing. Medications work kind of the same way. They just help with what the brain isn't doing right. What is your son's diagnois? What are they recommending for medication? What types of things is he doing?</p><p> </p><p>Good luck. I hope you find some comfort and answers here. I know I have.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TeDo, post: 383529"] Welcome to the board. The people hear have been where you have been and have used a variety of methods to deal with the things you're dealing with. Take advantage of the advice you get. We have all been there, done that. I admire your wanting to handle this without medications. I was in the same place when my difficult child was that age. I didn't like the idea of a 5 year old being "on drugs". I was afraid of what it would do to him and that it would mean that I wasn't doing something right or it wouldn't be a problem. My school district wanted to kick him out of kindergarten and send him back to preschool. After all the fighting and getting nowhere, I finally agreed to try medication. I found a wonderful child psychiatrist that explained to me that medications don't cure, they just take the edge off so to speak so that he was better able to learn the proper way to deal with anger and anxiety I was trying to teach him. The medications she put him on have calmed him just enough so that we could make progress with the learning. There are so many medications out there that DO help. The psychiatric made a wonderful analogy for me to relate to. He said there are chemical imbalances in the brain that causes these types of things kind of like a diabetic's pancreas doesn't work right. A diabetic, depending on how bad the pancreas is acting, needs insulin to help do what the pancreas isn't doing. Medications work kind of the same way. They just help with what the brain isn't doing right. What is your son's diagnois? What are they recommending for medication? What types of things is he doing? Good luck. I hope you find some comfort and answers here. I know I have. [/QUOTE]
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