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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Raise your child in an environment that is encouraging of honesty about feelings, don’t brush off warning signs, have a family culture of medical compliance (I.e let your child see you take your vitamins at the same time Every Day). In other words what you would probably do to support your child’s mental health anyway. [/quote]

+1. I would specifically suggest that you take a look at the work being done to intervene when people have first psychotic breaks. There is preparatory stuff you can do that will substantially increase the odds of successful treatment (even with today’s flawed tools) and at the very least mental health education won’t do harm.[/quote]

Unfortunately many mental health disorders come along with non-compliance to medication. It isn't about will, it's about the mental disorder itself. Using the perspective of a mentally healthy person to project onto an unwell one that is medicated still isn't the same thing.[/quote]

Yes I know, which is why I suggested the family culture support medical compliance— then if her child is non-compliant she will be able to see that as an early warning sign rather than “but her dad always says doctors don’t know what they’re talking about” or other confounding factors.[/quote]

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