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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents jump to drugs for everything now. Most don’t actually try everything first, they want an easy out. [/quote]

If you’ve spent any time on this forum you’d see that parents usually try absolutely everything snd don’t take the decision to medicate lightly at all. [/quote]

If that were true then parents would not be medicating 6 year olds. [/quote]

I’ve never heard of anyone medicating a 6 year old with SSRIs.  My 6 year old was medicated for adhd because otherwise he ran into traffic, ran into walls, could not attend K without hitting other kids, etc.  I did a single blind study by not telling anyone he worked with that I was starting the medication.  Within one week both the teacher and the bus patrol reached out to me unsolicited to tell me what a wonderful week he’d had at school and how the problems had greatly diminished.  He’s in HS and has been able to attend normal schools and take advanced classes without significant issues.

Another child was on SSRIs  as a tween, but only for a short period and at a low dose.  Our psychiatrist told us most teens only need SSRIs for a short period and standard of care is to do a trial reduction and weaning off after something like 6 months (might have been a year—not sure.). He said it’s rare that teens need to be on them for multiple years.

I have found however that GPs push ssris like candy onto middle aged moms.  I talked to my doctor during the pandemic about exhaustion and she put me on lexapro.  I promptly gained 10 pounds and was more exhausted and she kept pushing me to just increase the dose or give it more time.  She really pressured me.  Eventually I just stopped seeing her.   I feel like lots of people just want to drug up middle aged women rather than just acknowledging that being a middle aged woman totally s@cks.  [/quote]

I think more people than you know medicate their small kids. I once called a psychiatrist for an intake for my 4 year old - I was really looking for help with a diagnosis and medication was not on my radar - and she cut in to tell me that “I do not medicate 4 year olds for ADHD unless it’s so severe that for example they literally cannot sit to eat.” The way she said it, it was pretty clear she got a lot of calls from people looking to medicate 4 year olds for less severe behaviors. [/quote]

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