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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is your kid on medication? Doing CBT? What is he doing now to address the issue?[/quote]

Neither of these solve the problem of a child being isolated from his peers. [/quote]

Interesting that op never answered the question.

Medication certainly helps children with anxiety and depression,  no matter the cause. 
Anxiety and depression are feelings that feel very bad.

A parent who doesn't understand that is lacking the empathy the child needs to understand.  A child with anxiety should not be shuffled off to a wilderness program.  Again, total lack of empathy about the child's feelings.

There is more going on here besides peer isolation.

Unfortunately,  therapists are unable to tell the parents when the problem is the parents as that doesn't pay. [/quote]

Actually, our experience has been the opposite. The local psychiatrists cycled through all sorts of meds that made my teen much worse. And it wasn’t a matter of dosage, etc. the meds weren’t addressing the drivers of the teen’s struggle. It was the local therapist who recommended
Wilderness. After our teen went through wilderness and arrived at therapeutic boarding school, they were off meds in two months. And are still off them at home. Meds can be helpful for some mental health diagnoses, particularly chronic ones, but they can’t resolve issues some teens are struggling with. And they can make everything worse for some kids. There is no one right answer. [/quote]

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