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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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  • Hi, your reply was very interesting.

    Also for the reason that you tell me about Autism and that everyone is different. Well having had it for 47 years now, I doubt I need to be told this. But it's always funny when an NT tells me about the Spectrum, and of course when you meet one person with Autism, you have met only one person with Autism.

    Yet you have no idea about what I go through every day, no idea at all, i have major anxiety which prevents me from forming friendships or socialising as an NT can naturally.

    Has your son got classic Autism? It sounds like he does, or is it Aspergers? But Autistics ar enot suffering from the Autism, more from the issues that go with it. I can say my anxiety affects my life, but that Autism makes me who I am.

    I suffer every day, but people can not see it.now that's something I do not wish upon anyone

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  • Hi, your reply was very interesting.

    Also for the reason that you tell me about Autism and that everyone is different. Well having had it for 47 years now, I doubt I need to be told this. But it's always funny when an NT tells me about the Spectrum, and of course when you meet one person with Autism, you have met only one person with Autism.

    Yet you have no idea about what I go through every day, no idea at all, i have major anxiety which prevents me from forming friendships or socialising as an NT can naturally.

    Has your son got classic Autism? It sounds like he does, or is it Aspergers? But Autistics ar enot suffering from the Autism, more from the issues that go with it. I can say my anxiety affects my life, but that Autism makes me who I am.

    I suffer every day, but people can not see it.now that's something I do not wish upon anyone

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