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I'm an adult who was a difficult child. Medicated with Prozac at 5 yo for ODD/anxiety. My experience and advice. AMA.
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<blockquote data-quote="mindinggaps" data-source="post: 762647" data-attributes="member: 29823"><p>Dear Ascending, my relationship with my parents is okay. We are not particularly close, but we manage to get along and I speak with them about once a month. I cannot deny that we do have some mutual resentment and we have tried family therapy to work through these issues, with some success. </p><p></p><p>Growing up, I don't think my parents really know how to handle me aside from managing my medication and pretty much every issue that arose was solved by increasing my Prozac. While I feel for their situation and cannot deny that I absolutely needed to be heavily medicated, I wish I had access to other support tools and resources. These issues were quite complicated because when I was medicated in the early 90s, I was among the first very young people to be treated with Prozac. At the time, the psychiatrists involved didn't really know a tremendous amount about how things may work and my parents agreed that I could be used as a sort of "case study", meaning results of my treatment would be part of medical research. So throughout my youth I was studied to see effects of Prozac on very young people, in the treatment of ODD and later for the long-term effects of extended treatment at high dosages. Growing up, I didn't so much care about this but later in life I was angry to feel "experimented" on and still to this day the psychiatric community has an interest in my treatment. I understand and respect that the motive of my parents was to help other struggling parents and they did have the best of intentions. We worked through this the best we could through therapy. </p><p></p><p>As an adult, I did extensive individual therapy to build coping tools. This helped a lot and I wish I had access earlier in my life. This was very important for my own personal healing and also for having healing with my parents. Unfortunately, over the last years since stopping my medication, I must admit that my relationship with my parents has become more rocky. They have been told since I was very young that I must remain medicated my whole life to be stable and were very upset to find out I stopped my Prozac. Without it, I do okay but am not 100% symptom free and every time we speak they give me encouragement to start it up again, which irritates me. They do want what is best for me, but I feel they must also respect my decisions.</p><p></p><p>My relationship with my partner is less complicated - we have been together for many years and they are amazing and supportive. We have our ups and downs like any couple, and have engaged in couples therapy during difficult times. Overall, we do well and things are largely uneventful. There are times when I know things have been hard on them, but we have always treated each other with nothing but care and respect. If any symptoms of anger emerge they are never directed at them and only come out at work or to my parents.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mindinggaps, post: 762647, member: 29823"] Dear Ascending, my relationship with my parents is okay. We are not particularly close, but we manage to get along and I speak with them about once a month. I cannot deny that we do have some mutual resentment and we have tried family therapy to work through these issues, with some success. Growing up, I don't think my parents really know how to handle me aside from managing my medication and pretty much every issue that arose was solved by increasing my Prozac. While I feel for their situation and cannot deny that I absolutely needed to be heavily medicated, I wish I had access to other support tools and resources. These issues were quite complicated because when I was medicated in the early 90s, I was among the first very young people to be treated with Prozac. At the time, the psychiatrists involved didn't really know a tremendous amount about how things may work and my parents agreed that I could be used as a sort of "case study", meaning results of my treatment would be part of medical research. So throughout my youth I was studied to see effects of Prozac on very young people, in the treatment of ODD and later for the long-term effects of extended treatment at high dosages. Growing up, I didn't so much care about this but later in life I was angry to feel "experimented" on and still to this day the psychiatric community has an interest in my treatment. I understand and respect that the motive of my parents was to help other struggling parents and they did have the best of intentions. We worked through this the best we could through therapy. As an adult, I did extensive individual therapy to build coping tools. This helped a lot and I wish I had access earlier in my life. This was very important for my own personal healing and also for having healing with my parents. Unfortunately, over the last years since stopping my medication, I must admit that my relationship with my parents has become more rocky. They have been told since I was very young that I must remain medicated my whole life to be stable and were very upset to find out I stopped my Prozac. Without it, I do okay but am not 100% symptom free and every time we speak they give me encouragement to start it up again, which irritates me. They do want what is best for me, but I feel they must also respect my decisions. My relationship with my partner is less complicated - we have been together for many years and they are amazing and supportive. We have our ups and downs like any couple, and have engaged in couples therapy during difficult times. Overall, we do well and things are largely uneventful. There are times when I know things have been hard on them, but we have always treated each other with nothing but care and respect. If any symptoms of anger emerge they are never directed at them and only come out at work or to my parents. [/QUOTE]
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