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Originally Posted by VenusHalley
I think you should focus on him as a person as much as "finding the right med combo". I am not saying this applies to you, but many times with children with issues it ends up with parents dragging them around doctors and seeing everything as a symptom that needs to be treated.
Not trying to simplify anything, but many teens go through quite wild days and it is not pathological. I guess the most you can do is provide safety net and understanding.
It's pretty hard to be a teen and looking for yourself... and when other factors interfere with it.... it can be almost unbearable.
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Thanks for the reply. No - that does not apply to me and my my son. I'm not even generally a pro-med person. Gave birth to 3 babies natural and at home. Never thought my baby boy would have severe bipolar. Never thought he'd cut himself and wish to die. Never thought he'd be hospitalized 3 times by age 16.
I don't know if you have children or not, but when you've been through what I have with mine, you would likely look to the help of modern science in addition to anything and everything else. He is so smart and a gifted musician and psychic and intuitive. I am letting him home school because his anxiety is too high around the high school, and he either cant fall asleep or cant wake up. He wants medicine, he wants that help, and he is at an age to have a say so in it.
I think you missed the point when you say i should focus on him as a person. I am so focused on him as a person you have no idea. I am not shuttling my child around to doctors for every symptom, I am not forcing him to take meds.
My point was: I was asking if any other parents have their children complain of seroquel. And I got the answers i suspected that seroquel is really heavy duty, and I do think the dosage is too high.