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My 20 year old daughter is making life difficult.
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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 709015" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Some of her thinking is very bizarre. How did they choose zoloft as her antidepressant? Did the doctor just choose it? Or did they do a dna test to see if it was the right antidepressant for her? Did she see a psychiatrist or just a regular doctor? I would make it a condition of living with you that you can talk to her doctor. All of my children know that as long as they live with me, I can go to their appointments and talk to their doctors, period. Mostly they want me to go with them for anything complicated as we are pretty close, and they know that this rule is not negotiable. </p><p></p><p>I would insist that she see a psychiatrist for treatment to see how she is doing, that she cooperate in some type of reputable therapy, and that if the psychiatrist felt medications were appropriate, that she take them. Given her diagnosis, I would push for the dna test to see what type of antidepressant was likely to work best for her (insurance covers this and it is accurate and takes a LOT of the guesswork out of it), and I would insist that she take the medications for a 3 month trial period. </p><p></p><p>Others may not agree with the medical stuff, but I think that having you be able to know what is going on is important. Given how skewed her thinking is or was, having someone else be able to talk to her doctor may be important. I would be careful to only talk to the doctor during appointments or if there was a big crisis, but it is a good thing to have in a crisis. I insist on this with my children because in a crisis it might make a big difference.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 709015, member: 1233"] Some of her thinking is very bizarre. How did they choose zoloft as her antidepressant? Did the doctor just choose it? Or did they do a dna test to see if it was the right antidepressant for her? Did she see a psychiatrist or just a regular doctor? I would make it a condition of living with you that you can talk to her doctor. All of my children know that as long as they live with me, I can go to their appointments and talk to their doctors, period. Mostly they want me to go with them for anything complicated as we are pretty close, and they know that this rule is not negotiable. I would insist that she see a psychiatrist for treatment to see how she is doing, that she cooperate in some type of reputable therapy, and that if the psychiatrist felt medications were appropriate, that she take them. Given her diagnosis, I would push for the dna test to see what type of antidepressant was likely to work best for her (insurance covers this and it is accurate and takes a LOT of the guesswork out of it), and I would insist that she take the medications for a 3 month trial period. Others may not agree with the medical stuff, but I think that having you be able to know what is going on is important. Given how skewed her thinking is or was, having someone else be able to talk to her doctor may be important. I would be careful to only talk to the doctor during appointments or if there was a big crisis, but it is a good thing to have in a crisis. I insist on this with my children because in a crisis it might make a big difference. [/QUOTE]
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