Don't feel guilty for getting your daughter medication that she needs to live a stable life. If your daughter was diabetic would you refuse to treat her with insulin? Unfortunatly mental illness is very hereditary in my family and I have a daughter who is 16 now but started on meds when she was 9. She has Borderline Personalitly Disorder. It is good that they did not put a "label" on here right away. When my daughter first saw her pdoc at 9 they thought she had ADHD. We put her on stimulant medication and man did she react bad! It took several years to get her stable and it is still a stuggle but at leaset I know I am helping her live as normal as a life as possible.

I also have a 10 year old that has MI and right now she is on 3 meds daily. She has OCD. it is not the kind that people think, like washing her hands. She has very intrusive thoughts about hurting herself and others and they are very real and scary to her. She is on Zoloft, ablify and trazaone and is finally getting relief.

Keep your chin up! you are doing good and what is right.