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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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  • So each time we have had to call the police, it gets harder and harder to call them again because they will eventually arrest him. Life is hard enough for autistic adults without having a criminal record as well! The trouble is that if I am in on my own or my husband is incapacitated (we are in our 50s now), who the heck else do I call? There is nobody who will come when you are in the pressure cooker other than the police. The social workers can't respond to calls in our area and in any case their emergency phone isn't usually manned when I try to ring. We have no family nearby and no close friends anymore.

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  • So each time we have had to call the police, it gets harder and harder to call them again because they will eventually arrest him. Life is hard enough for autistic adults without having a criminal record as well! The trouble is that if I am in on my own or my husband is incapacitated (we are in our 50s now), who the heck else do I call? There is nobody who will come when you are in the pressure cooker other than the police. The social workers can't respond to calls in our area and in any case their emergency phone isn't usually manned when I try to ring. We have no family nearby and no close friends anymore.

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