Anonymous
04/11/2013 16:40
Subject: Typical dosage of Prozac for CHILD under 12?
Anonymous wrote:ZERO!
Instead of spending $$$ on your clothes or trips or DC pad or whatever, why not invest it in your child's mental health and find a therapist (NOT a psychiatrist) worth a shit - pay the $$$$.
I mean seriously, are you F-ing KIDDING ME????[/quote
I am with you PP 100% I don't get it either.
Anonymous
04/11/2013 15:59
Subject: Typical dosage of Prozac for CHILD under 12?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:ZERO!
Instead of spending $$$ on your clothes or trips or DC pad or whatever, why not invest it in your child's mental health and find a therapist (NOT a psychiatrist) worth a shit - pay the $$$$.
I mean seriously, are you F-ing KIDDING ME????
Please go back to general parenting. You are ignorant and you don't know what you are talking about.
I have seen children become psychotic because of extreme anxiety. I have seen great suffering, children who couldn't ;earn or socialize because of the intrusiveness of their anxieties. What the SCIENCE tells us (science, not your ideological blinders) is that untreated mood disorders in children affect the chemistry of the brain, so that the disorders become more entrenched and difficult to treat. Mentally ill children who are not treated become mentally ill adults. The ones who are treated have an excellent shot at productive, happy lives.
OP was asking caring parents who have been there for advice. You are neither of these things so please go away.
Can you read? I most certainly gave advice - the advice was to get your children real therapy that they obviously need rather than just throwing hard core meds at a 3.5 yr old. 10 yr old. or any little kid. And the "SCIENCE" shows that CBT is often more effective than drugs. I'm not some DCUM hippie against all medications, but for a CHILD - under 12? under 5???? I would certainly exhaust all non-pharmacological options before drugging my child. Like therapy. Like what is the root of the problem as far as environment.
Anonymous
04/11/2013 15:50
Subject: Typical dosage of Prozac for CHILD under 12?
Anonymous wrote:ZERO!
Instead of spending $$$ on your clothes or trips or DC pad or whatever, why not invest it in your child's mental health and find a therapist (NOT a psychiatrist) worth a shit - pay the $$$$.
I mean seriously, are you F-ing KIDDING ME????
Please go back to general parenting. You are ignorant and you don't know what you are talking about.
I have seen children become psychotic because of extreme anxiety. I have seen great suffering, children who couldn't ;earn or socialize because of the intrusiveness of their anxieties. What the SCIENCE tells us (science, not your ideological blinders) is that untreated mood disorders in children affect the chemistry of the brain, so that the disorders become more entrenched and difficult to treat. Mentally ill children who are not treated become mentally ill adults. The ones who are treated have an excellent shot at productive, happy lives.
OP was asking caring parents who have been there for advice. You are neither of these things so please go away.
Anonymous
04/11/2013 15:28
Subject: Typical dosage of Prozac for CHILD under 12?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:ZERO!
Instead of spending $$$ on your clothes or trips or DC pad or whatever, why not invest it in your child's mental health and find a therapist (NOT a psychiatrist) worth a shit - pay the $$$$.
I mean seriously, are you F-ing KIDDING ME????
Sounds like you've missed your medication. Hope you get to feeling better soon.
No, that would be your child who is scheduled for meds today, right? It's all the PPs/OPs kids names on the pill bottles, not mine. Sorry.
Anonymous
04/11/2013 15:26
Subject: Typical dosage of Prozac for CHILD under 12?
Now I get it - all you DCUMer liberals on here who speaketh as if you are the Dalai Lama - yet you waste all your time and money fretting over which zipcode is better or which shoes are better or which paint or whether we should call black people from other countries AA.
And while you type away on your computer on DCUMs over all this tertiary sh!t, your child is suffering in your "gentrified" but still ghetto neighborhood and subpar charter school and being emotionally damaged by YOUR poor choices and genes, and you just throw PROZAC at the problem and go about your hypocritical neuroses and brag on DCUMs about how natural your breast milk was for DD or DS's first 3 years or how healthy and walkable your neighborhood is???
You are a bunch of psycho hypocrites!
And while you type away on your computer on DCUMs over all this tertiary sh!t, your child is suffering in your "gentrified" but still ghetto neighborhood and subpar charter school and being emotionally damaged by YOUR poor choices and genes, and you just throw PROZAC at the problem and go about your hypocritical neuroses and brag on DCUMs about how natural your breast milk was for DD or DS's first 3 years or how healthy and walkable your neighborhood is???
You are a bunch of psycho hypocrites!
Anonymous
04/11/2013 15:24
Subject: Typical dosage of Prozac for CHILD under 12?
Anonymous wrote:ZERO!
Instead of spending $$$ on your clothes or trips or DC pad or whatever, why not invest it in your child's mental health and find a therapist (NOT a psychiatrist) worth a shit - pay the $$$$.
I mean seriously, are you F-ing KIDDING ME????
Sounds like you've missed your medication. Hope you get to feeling better soon.
Anonymous
04/11/2013 15:16
Subject: Typical dosage of Prozac for CHILD under 12?
ZERO!
Instead of spending $$$ on your clothes or trips or DC pad or whatever, why not invest it in your child's mental health and find a therapist (NOT a psychiatrist) worth a shit - pay the $$$$.
I mean seriously, are you F-ing KIDDING ME????
Instead of spending $$$ on your clothes or trips or DC pad or whatever, why not invest it in your child's mental health and find a therapist (NOT a psychiatrist) worth a shit - pay the $$$$.
I mean seriously, are you F-ing KIDDING ME????
Anonymous
04/11/2013 14:44
Subject: Re:Typical dosage of Prozac for CHILD under 12?
Op here. Thanks, just having a moment to check back! My child is 10, experiencing anxiety and ADHD. We having been giving 2.5 cc's. but suspect psych will raise at our next appointment next week. Like every parent, we don't want to 'overdose', but do want to help our child.
Thank you again to everyone who shared.
Thank you again to everyone who shared.
Anonymous
04/05/2013 12:32
Subject: Re:Typical dosage of Prozac for CHILD under 12?
DS, 10, took it in liquid form -- 3 ml. Had gone as high as 7 ml but that was too much.
Anonymous
04/05/2013 12:22
Subject: Re:Typical dosage of Prozac for CHILD under 12?
I am the 2nd PP, my 6 year old is now on 40 mg. A fairly high dose, but unfortunately the only way to keep her functioning.
Anonymous
04/05/2013 08:57
Subject: Typical dosage of Prozac for CHILD under 12?
How old is your child, OP?
Anonymous
04/05/2013 08:54
Subject: Re:Typical dosage of Prozac for CHILD under 12?
Our then 8 yo started out on 10 mg and moved up to 20 mg.
Anonymous
04/04/2013 23:13
Subject: Typical dosage of Prozac for CHILD under 12?
10-20 mg
Anonymous
04/04/2013 21:29
Subject: Re:Typical dosage of Prozac for CHILD under 12?
That is the dose our then 3.5 year old started on.
Anonymous
04/04/2013 20:51
Subject: Typical dosage of Prozac for CHILD under 12?
We are considering prozac for our child. Psych suggests starting at 2.5 cc. Does this sound typical?