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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ZERO!

Instead of spending $$$ on your clothes or trips or DC pad or whatever, why not invest it in your child's mental health and find a therapist (NOT a psychiatrist) worth a shit - pay the $$$$.

I mean seriously, are you F-ing KIDDING ME????[/quote]

Please go back to general parenting.  You are ignorant and you don't know what you are talking about.

I have seen children become psychotic because of extreme anxiety.  I have seen great suffering, children who couldn't ;earn or socialize because of the intrusiveness of their anxieties.  What the SCIENCE tells us (science, not your ideological blinders) is that untreated mood disorders in children affect the chemistry of the brain, so that the disorders become more entrenched and difficult to treat.  Mentally ill children who are not treated become mentally ill adults.  The ones who are treated have an excellent shot at productive, happy lives.

OP was asking caring parents who have been there for advice.  You are neither of these things so please go away.[/quote]

Can you read?  I most certainly gave advice - the advice was to get your children real therapy that they obviously need rather than just throwing hard core meds at a 3.5 yr old.  10 yr old.  or any little kid.  And the "SCIENCE" shows that CBT is often more effective than drugs.  I'm not some DCUM hippie against all medications, but for a CHILD - under 12?  under 5????  I would certainly exhaust all non-pharmacological options before drugging my child.  Like therapy.  Like what is the root of the problem as far as environment.[/quote]

I am a new poster and I am answering you as a way to support other parents. Please do not be so patronizing. Why would you assume that OP, that any of us, have not exhausted all non-pharmacological options?? Do you think anyone takes medicating a child lightly?! When we started to give my child prozac, he had already been in therapy for two years. He is still in therapy. Do you want to know what else we tried? Gluten/casein free and all organic diet; high doses of fish oil and other supplements; weekly occupational therapy; tae kwon do; yoga, every sport ... off the top of my head. Oh, and I gave up my career, too, to be able to take my kid to appointments and provide all the stability I possibly could. And yet my son's anxiety was so extreme that he could not hold a conversation with anyone besides his parents. He had intense panic attacks every single day before school. He would not leave the house without his mother. He started to resist, physically resist, going to school... which, might be okay for a three-year-old but, think about it, what can you do when your six-year-old will not walk into school? When he acts as [i]terrified [/i]as though there were a shooter inside the school and he was being sent to certain death. My child could no longer play sports, could no longer learn, could no longer go to a birthday party, could no longer have a play date. He was shutting down completely--you clearly have no idea what it feels like to watch something like this. All of this while he was seeing the most wonderful therapist, who had been able to help him in the past. While being taught by the most amazing teachers, who were doing everything they could to support him. While surrounded by the most amazing friends, who continued to patiently and lovingly invite him. And we were still losing him to his anxiety. By the time we considered medication, we had let him suffer intensely for a very, very long time. Those are years my poor little boy will never get back.

I cried the day we gave him Prozac for the first time. It was the hardest decision I have ever made. But Prozac has changed his life. My son still has extreme anxiety but he can now  use some of the tools he has been taught in therapy. The difference is that it reaches him now, and so can we, his parents, talk him through situations in way we were unable to do before. My son can now enjoy his friends and his team and school. I truly have not even told you the half of what we have been through. I would assume that everyone whose young children take SSRIs have similar stories. It is terribly uncharitable and disrespectful of you to assume that we would make this decision lightly. And you stigmatize the act of taking medication, which, really is the last thing our kids need on top of all they are already dealing with. Shame on you.[/quote]

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