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[quote=Anonymous]I suspect there are a number of people posting who haven't experienced a kid in crisis with anxiety.  We had to put our DS on Prozac in early elementary school.  The behaviors you describe, OP, sound so very familiar - including the inability to articulate the trigger and/or what he was feeling.  He would go from 0 to 100 yet, an FBA didn't reveal any triggers or patterns (and it was one of the best FBAs our advocate had seen).  DS had been taught many CBT techniques and could, when he was calm, speak about those techniques and what he should do.  We didn't want to use medication but when he said he wanted to kill himself, his developmental pediatrician said it was time.  DS had such an elevated baseline anxiety that he needed the medication to reduce that level and enable him to be more open to interventions.

I've since learned a lot more about anxiety and my only regret is that we didn't introduce medication earlier.  It doesn't take much for anxiety to overwhelm the rational side of the brain.  It's a very primitive, strong emotion and when it's firing on all cylinders is really hard to control.  Both of my DSs have needed medication for it.  The anxiety is still there but medication allows them to control it rather than it controlling them. [/quote]

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