Psychiatrist who specializes in getting kids off meds

[Anonymous]

I think at his peak, mine was on two antipsychotics, an SSRI, and a non stimulant ADHD med. ability was the worse for weight gain. Non stimulant ADHD meds didn’t work. SSRI initially caused activation. But we were stuck because he was suicidal and they could t get that under control.

Anyway, fast forward to post covid and young adulthood. He found a psychiatric nurse practitioner who now has him on a stimulant, sleep medication and an antipsychotic which I don’t think he takes. He is stable and finally doing well. It was a long road. I think the biggest issue was finding a practitioner that listened and was willing to try doing things differently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used to work inpatient pediatric psych and this was a common reason for admission. Typically the team would taper them off of everything to get out of the cascade. Then do a baseline assessment for that point in time and current developmental stage, then treat the most problematic symptoms / condition. Kids often got worse during the tapering but then stabilized enough once off all the meds to get a good baseline assessment.

This is very interesting. OP here. I would think for my child that going into an inpatient environment would be very traumatizing. Do they ever do this within a PHP? Were the kids in the inpatient traumatized to be there?

Why do you think it would be traumatizing to your child?