Hi all,
I've got a situation here and can use some help. Maybe a civil rights activist or an attorney's help:
My minor teen was discovered out of her dad's home in the middle of the night and was taken by police to the local hospital. She is very upset over her living situation and has said that if it doesn't change she will run away.
So now she's in a psych unit and for the first time ever the psychiatrist is locking horns with me regarding medication. Doc says my kid is severely depressed and medication is a necessary part of the treatment.
My position is that this child has been on a number of different meds and none of them have been able to change her living situation, and despite all the different antidpressants she keeps landing in the hospital; evidently the antidepressants are not helping, and what is needed is a change in living situation.
As of five months ago she's been blissfully drug free.
I have full legal custody so I get to make medical and other decisions for my child.
I have suggested to the psychiatrist, as I have previously suggested to others, to promise my child a different living situation, and I believe her depression will lift. In the past, when docs told her she would not have to return to this unhappy arrangement, my kid came out of her depression.
This time around she's in a different hospital and they're locking horns with me over this.
The psychiatrist said if my kid does not come out of this depression they will go above my objection and give my kid the meds.
Is there a civil rights activist out there who can advise me?