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OP - I understand that you can be really, really tired and discouraged in dealing with your DC's issues and trying to find appropriate services.  I do think coming to an anonymous board is probably not the most positive outlet for you since equally stressed out folks will take it upon themselves to vent in various ways.  However, perhaps finding a parent group which meets face to face for a specific numbers of weeks or at standing times might be a more productive outlet to share your frustrations and what has or has not worked.

When our oldest daughter was first diagnosed in college as having extreme anxiety it began almost a decade process of her trying to find a balance that would work for her.  This involved therapist at the college where she went as well as in out community when she pulled out of college two times.  The first time in first semester of sophomore year, she was home for nine months.  At that time we connected her with a psychiatrist and a psychologist who while not in the same practice worked as a team.  Medication is often necessary to stabilize a person mentally, but also to deal with the chemical imbalance in one's body which can be setting things off.  She was an adult when this surfaced so it was easier to say to her that there were two aspects (1) Yes you have a health condition which is difficult to diagnose and we will be willing to work with you even with the ups and downs.  (2) How you choose to handle your mental health condition is something else, and we will have limits on how you act out.  Therapists worked well with her, but medication took time as some did well for a couple of years, but then a change would be needed.

There were also certain trigger points in looking back such as the first transition to college, then senior year with the college routine and life she knew there ending, then graduate school after three years coming to a close and the unknown.   So in essence, I would just say it is not so simple to say therapists are all a crock or medications never really work.   It is a very individualized path for each person.    Maturity and getting to know oneself certainly helped her.  She also recognized that when she wanted to start a family that her then psychiatrist was a little too loose on the medication and she actively interviewed psychiatrists with a focus on women and possible post-partum related issues.  I will tell you she found a wonderful doctor and went on to have two healthy twins.  She continues to have a team of a medical doctor and a psychologist, but times with both are very spaced out.  However, it is key that for her they will always be a necessary component to living a full and usually balanced life an individual, a wife, a mom, a worker and a community member.  We wish that she did not have to have traveled this road, and there were times which were incredibly frustrating and discouraging for us as her parents and there definitely was a lasting impact on the family.  However, to see her focus on herself,  her family, her job and involved in life in her community makes it all worthwhile.

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