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His vitamin D is low?  Good God....[/quote]

You're adorable.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/reading-between-the-headlines/201307/vitamin-d-deficiency-and-depression

What does this have to do with psychiatry? Glad you asked. Recent studies by Springer (link is external), and research results reported in the New England Journal of Medicine (link is external) and by the Vitamin D Council (link is external), are indicating a link to depression. Of note: Canadian researchers (link is external) reviewed 14 studies, consisting of 31,424 participants and found a strong correlation between depression and a lack of Vitamin D. The lower the Vitamin D level, the greater the chance of depression. But, the big question is still causality. Does one get depressed because of a deficiency of Vitamin D, or does depression lower the vitamin level?

"What we know now is that there are strong indications that maintaining adequate levels of vitamin D are also important for good mental health. A few minutes of sunlight exposure each day should be enough for most people to maintain an adequate vitamin D status."
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/286496.php

But feel free to keep popping your SSRI's and such without doing root cause analysis. [/quote]

I know more about this subject than you will ever know.  I understand low vitamin D *may* cause depression, this article is talking about mild depression.  Not suicidal ideation.  The difference between those two is the difference between life and death, please stop trying to talk the OP out of doing what is right for her son.[/quote]

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