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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think the PANDAS/ERP poster is the same as the anti-meds poster, but I think your point is valid.  I don't any parent makes the decision to use medication lightly.

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My apologies if the PANDAS poster was a different person.  My point was that I feel like there's always a flood of "Did you know it could be X?" whenever someone mentions medication.

To give context to my frustration, I WAS an anti-med person and, if I'm honest, I secretly judged parents who medicated any child that didn't fall within the category of "harm to self or others."  I very self-righteously put my severely anxious and OCD DS through therapies that sometimes worked and sometimes didn't, but he always went back to the severely anxious baseline where he was not amenable to cbt and other exposure therapies.  When he finally suffered debilitating anxiety that affected every function of his life, I reluctantly resorted to meds.  Within a month of being on a tiny dose of an SSRI, he was a completely different kid.  He's now happy, functioning, and able to manage his anxiety.   Now, my only regret was being so adamant about no meds, despite the fact that my kid had some hard-wired anxiety.  I still feel guilty that he lost those years because of my tunnel vision.  So, when people start offering up all the ways in which I might not have thought this through completely, I call BS because I was that person putting in my two cents and making everyone feel defensive about their choices.  Massive hubris on my part.[/quote]

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