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[quote=Anonymous]We medicated our child for tics and OCD that were way beyond our ability to manage.  They were so bizarre I expect very few parents would have an idea how to manage.  The meds seems to work until they didn't and they upped the dose and the side effects became unbearable too.  It turned out that the meds in fact wee not working--taking them just coincided with a waning period.

This was many years ago and absolutely nothing was offered us except meds.  No one talked about behavior modification, parenting classes, etc  For all I know they still may not be talking about such things with regard to a child such as ours.

I began doing research and found exposure and response prevention therapy reportedly had some success.  This saved out lives, but we had to stick to it twice a week for a year and a half and regular daily homework.  This was not convenient for us and it was fairly costly.  The homework is awful and takes a toll on the child parent relationship.

I don't know about others, but for us the decision to do meds was an easy one.  The illness had wreaked such havoc on our household I would have accepted without question any solution a doctor offered us.  But in retrospect, in our case, meds were not the best choice.  We just didn't know it at the time and neither did the doctors; we had to figure this out for ourselves.

But if meds could have helped the problem and spared us the difficult child parent interactions the homework demanded, I would seriously consider the med route.[/quote]

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