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psychiatrist prescribed Lamictal; difficult child ranted all the way home
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 579873" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>The only person who knows if the medications are helping without intolerable side effects is the person taking them. If more of our kids were given the right medication and not overmedicated and LISTENED to when they say the medications are giving them side effects, less would stop taking them. If the medication is really making you feel better, you don't want to quit taking it. It's when it doesn't make you feel good that you want to quit. This goes for adults too. Amazing how often psychiatrists try to treat adults who have MI like naughty kids if they dare to say a medication is not working or is making them feel bad. </p><p>Lithium also made me feel like I wasn't really alive, but in a dream. Very spooky feeling, one I could never live with. Yet Lithium helps some people a lot. Delicate balancing act. All people are different and just because a psychiatrist says that you shouldn't have a side effect on X and X dose doesn't mean you won't. It would help so much if psychiatrists listened more to their patients. Less would be medication non-compliant. Nobody is going to take any medication that gives them horrible side effects.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 579873, member: 1550"] The only person who knows if the medications are helping without intolerable side effects is the person taking them. If more of our kids were given the right medication and not overmedicated and LISTENED to when they say the medications are giving them side effects, less would stop taking them. If the medication is really making you feel better, you don't want to quit taking it. It's when it doesn't make you feel good that you want to quit. This goes for adults too. Amazing how often psychiatrists try to treat adults who have MI like naughty kids if they dare to say a medication is not working or is making them feel bad. Lithium also made me feel like I wasn't really alive, but in a dream. Very spooky feeling, one I could never live with. Yet Lithium helps some people a lot. Delicate balancing act. All people are different and just because a psychiatrist says that you shouldn't have a side effect on X and X dose doesn't mean you won't. It would help so much if psychiatrists listened more to their patients. Less would be medication non-compliant. Nobody is going to take any medication that gives them horrible side effects. [/QUOTE]
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