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[quote=Anonymous]Outward Bound's program for struggling kids worked miracles for our oppositional teen son. It was like night and day. Not all kids on the program seem to have benefitted, but ours sure did. You could try this over the summer before you commit to a residential program and pull him away from his friends and home for a longer period.

That, plus we changed to a competent therapist (second the recommendation for Rathbone) and meds for depression.

Depression is a real thing in teens--they really do have low serotonin levels for various hormonal and developmental reasons. Plus the whole lag on frontal cortex development doesn't help with mood management. In fact, we tried a number of different anti-depressants with little result. Finally we paid about $300 for a new genetic test that looks at how your kid metabolizes various anti-depressants. Wouldn't you know, most of the SSRIs really were useless for DS. Now he's on a new anti-depressant, and is really level for the first time on several years.[/quote]

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