|
Sometimes I wonder what my life would be like if I had been on medication younger. I don't believe that medication should be the first option, unless a genetic or hormonal marker can be found, but I don't think it should be discounted as an option. When a child's feelings, thoughts and actions are out of proportion to the situation or completely independent of it and therapy has been little or no help, then medication is a reasonable option and in the case where parents rely on medication should, perhaps, be considered even earlier, in adjunct to therapy with the assumption that it may be discontinued after six months to see if it's still necessary, preferably not in the middle of a semester.
__________________
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859.
|