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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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  • Thanks for your reply davidgolf47. I completely agree Autism is absolutely not an illness. My son has had a dx for 6 years now and my husband of 15 years, 18 months so I understand where you are coming from.

    However these are not behaviour issues. This is suffering, painful, low quality of life where you have suicidal thoughts and you cannot go outside for phobias. OCD interferes with daily life causing him extreme stress. He is not in school and we have and do adapt and are completely open minded so we do stand out in society and do not care if this is what he needs. We flexi school when things are going well and he does not want to Home Ed. He cannot access self help strategies because he is ill with depression and anxiety is life long.

    Autism can go hand in hand with anxiety but one is not an illness and the other is detrimental when at excessive unmanageable levels. When you have met one person with autism, you have met one person with autism and every one of us is unique and will experience anxiety at differing levels and in differing ways so I do not think we can presume to walk in someone else's shoes and know what is right for them. We can share our experiences though and let them draw their own conclusions. Perhaps you have been lucky enough to not have experienced this level of suffering. I hope so.

    Thank you for sharing your experience.

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  • Thanks for your reply davidgolf47. I completely agree Autism is absolutely not an illness. My son has had a dx for 6 years now and my husband of 15 years, 18 months so I understand where you are coming from.

    However these are not behaviour issues. This is suffering, painful, low quality of life where you have suicidal thoughts and you cannot go outside for phobias. OCD interferes with daily life causing him extreme stress. He is not in school and we have and do adapt and are completely open minded so we do stand out in society and do not care if this is what he needs. We flexi school when things are going well and he does not want to Home Ed. He cannot access self help strategies because he is ill with depression and anxiety is life long.

    Autism can go hand in hand with anxiety but one is not an illness and the other is detrimental when at excessive unmanageable levels. When you have met one person with autism, you have met one person with autism and every one of us is unique and will experience anxiety at differing levels and in differing ways so I do not think we can presume to walk in someone else's shoes and know what is right for them. We can share our experiences though and let them draw their own conclusions. Perhaps you have been lucky enough to not have experienced this level of suffering. I hope so.

    Thank you for sharing your experience.

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