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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mine has had mental health issues emerge.  I guess they often do during adolescence but we were utterly unprepared.  She also continues to be argumentative and oppositional, now with attitude thanks to normal teen behavior.  I have tried everything to get her help but she is unwilling to participate so nothing helps.  Trying to figure out if meds are appropriate now.  Have no good support to help in that decision.  Ped is useless for mental health.  We've paid big money for a supposed expert psychiatrist (who, of course, doesn't take insurance) but we have found her very useless.

I had no idea it would be this hard.  I see those innocent posts from the Expecting board and remember those days.  Can't believe they led here.  Why do we have kids?[/quote]

Switch psychiatrists. It took us FOUR before we found help and when we did it was life changing. Stick with it. [/quote]

We got it on the third. I wish we had left the first two sooner. The third was similarly life changing.[/quote]

We got it right the second time; DS loves his therapist and trusts him completely. We trust him too. The first therapist was almost sociopathic, I could tell you some stories about that guy that would make your hair curl.  The psycho psychiatrists are out there!
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