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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree. Our therapists said that right away, he said not to ask him anything about what they talk about.

My son's therapist graduated in 2008, he likes him.

PP, did counselling alone help with the depression?[/quote]

DC did anti-depressants, too. We think the medication helped but DC is not so sure. We tried several types of meds. A year later, DC is in such a good place that he wants to discontinue the medication; we've said he should go a little further into the school year, just to be sure it doesn't get too stressful, and then we're all for supporting him while he tries to go off the medication. But we'll keep the therapist (at Rathbone), who he's really bonded with.[/quote]

Sounds like therapy really helped. That is great.[/quote]

PP here.  I think the therapy did help. I can't say for sure that it was the major factor relative to other factors, however. I want to be really honest about this because I don't want to hold out false hope for OP. For example, I really don't know how much the medication helped, whether it made a huge difference, or none at all as DC seems to think. I suppose we will find out when DC starts to phase off the medication. Another thing going on is that DC is one year older, and we all know how much their brains are developing during the teen years. Also, some external factors in DC's life changed, which I don't want to go into because I don't want to give DC's secrets away here, but the change in these external factors may have helped too.

I will say that DC has a great bond with the current therapist and enjoys going to therapy. We use Rathbone, which came as a recommendation from other families we know who used them. Rathbone specializes in teens and you can get Rathbone therapists who do a combination of talk therapy, working on specific personal issues, and cognitive behavior therapy. I would recommend against a therapist who bills himself/herself as a sort of jack-of-all-trades doing family therapy, children, marriage counseling, job loss and the works. That's the route we went initially, the guy really had no plan (and he was also a bit of an aggressive jerk, unfortunately) and the whole thing initially alienated DC from therapy. So as I said before, give a therapist a month, and if DC doesn't click with the therapist or you can't see some sort of plan or strategy to the therapy (you wouldn't see improvement this early), move on quickly!

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