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Meds to take edge off Depression & Anxiety in a Teen

Mhairi

Hoping for some advice from anyone with experience of this. Our 13 yr old has suffered with significant anxiety over past 5 years and 2 bouts of significant depression last months all impacting on his quality of life and on both occasions feeling life is not worth living.

We are hoping meds will take the edge of his high levels of anxiety until he is in a place where he can help himself, find strategies and address the areas that are affecting him so he can enjoy some quality of life. Hopefully they will be a temporary measure.

Any advice on people's experience of meds would be very much appreciated particularly those around in their teens. He cannot swallow tablets but can incorporate a powder/open capsule into food.

We understand it will be trial and error and they may not work for him at all, plus the 2 month settling in period but feel for his sake we have to try this.

Thank you

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  • Funnily enough we are about to try a punch bag for the second time. We had one when he was smaller but he wouldn't use it. We bought a great big trampoline and had it in the garden for years...yet again he wouldn't use it. I think he needs to vent on something that gives him some response. His psychiatrist at CAMHS has now said that we are nearing the time when he will need much stronger medication.... Risperidone, which can have very nasty side effects. We are holding off on that for obvious reasons. When he is violent, its bad because he is getting bigger, however, since being on the Fluoxetine, the incidences have decreased markedly. He is now being visited by an officer from the Youth Offending Team...not because he is a bad lad but just as an attempt to stop the violence in the home. Calling the police is a frightening option..we have had to do it three times. The risk is that he will be arrested. Did you know that if an autistic child is over the age of criminal responsibility that they can be taken from the home against the parent's wishes and locked in a cell alone? There is no special sytem for them if they are arrested. Unbelievable.

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  • Funnily enough we are about to try a punch bag for the second time. We had one when he was smaller but he wouldn't use it. We bought a great big trampoline and had it in the garden for years...yet again he wouldn't use it. I think he needs to vent on something that gives him some response. His psychiatrist at CAMHS has now said that we are nearing the time when he will need much stronger medication.... Risperidone, which can have very nasty side effects. We are holding off on that for obvious reasons. When he is violent, its bad because he is getting bigger, however, since being on the Fluoxetine, the incidences have decreased markedly. He is now being visited by an officer from the Youth Offending Team...not because he is a bad lad but just as an attempt to stop the violence in the home. Calling the police is a frightening option..we have had to do it three times. The risk is that he will be arrested. Did you know that if an autistic child is over the age of criminal responsibility that they can be taken from the home against the parent's wishes and locked in a cell alone? There is no special sytem for them if they are arrested. Unbelievable.

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