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Parents, how did you respond when your adult children stopped medication?
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<blockquote data-quote="mindinggaps" data-source="post: 762681" data-attributes="member: 29823"><p>[USER=4040]@KTMom91[/USER], my parents also had strict medication compliance policies and looking back I think these were very important. I know medication compliance can be a challenge for many parents and there's often a lot of questions about how to best handle it. As an adult, I am actually grateful that my parents did what was required to keep me properly medicated as I think it was crucial to my long term success. I think it is important for parents to recognize when medication is a necessity and in this case and ensure that proper medication happens even if there is resistance. I know a lot of parents fear that if they enforce medication their children may resent them later, but for me this is not the case at all.</p><p></p><p>I was fortunate to have success with only a single medication, but dosage was an issue. I'm not sure if this was the case for your daughter, but when I was properly medicated I did tend to be more compliant. My Prozac needed to be adjusted for growth and sometimes I would resist increases, or if they didn't happen promptly, I didn't have enough medication to keep my behavior under control and a result was that I would rebel against the medication. So efforts were required to make sure I was taking medication and that the levels were kept adequate to keep things balanced. However, once the right dose was in place I tended to be fairly compliant.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mindinggaps, post: 762681, member: 29823"] [USER=4040]@KTMom91[/USER], my parents also had strict medication compliance policies and looking back I think these were very important. I know medication compliance can be a challenge for many parents and there's often a lot of questions about how to best handle it. As an adult, I am actually grateful that my parents did what was required to keep me properly medicated as I think it was crucial to my long term success. I think it is important for parents to recognize when medication is a necessity and in this case and ensure that proper medication happens even if there is resistance. I know a lot of parents fear that if they enforce medication their children may resent them later, but for me this is not the case at all. I was fortunate to have success with only a single medication, but dosage was an issue. I'm not sure if this was the case for your daughter, but when I was properly medicated I did tend to be more compliant. My Prozac needed to be adjusted for growth and sometimes I would resist increases, or if they didn't happen promptly, I didn't have enough medication to keep my behavior under control and a result was that I would rebel against the medication. So efforts were required to make sure I was taking medication and that the levels were kept adequate to keep things balanced. However, once the right dose was in place I tended to be fairly compliant. [/QUOTE]
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