Posted by lymom3 on May 18, 2006, at 10:58:58
In reply to Re: Would a high level of EMSAM help anxiety?, posted by jealibeanz on May 18, 2006, at 10:46:14
There is some validity to his statement. You may be pushing so hard and are still fairly young that some of that may be true, BUT, they are there to help you. I know that it is hit and miss whether you get someone good and compassionate or not. Sad but true. I have/had been through dozens of pdocs for me and for my son. One pdoc suggested that my son WAS medicated properly however he was just a "bad kid" and I should take a parenting class and referred me to parent support groups. How very helpful.
After letting him take his lumps not on meds for a few months, he got arrested and suspended from school (separate incidents). I cracked open the phone book and found a psychologist that runs a practice who has ADHD and that's what he specializes in. He then referred me to the pdoc that he takes his own kids to for meds. Those are now the same docs that I see and they are WONDERFUL.
I wish there was some way to weed out the half a** ones. My son is on 3x the recommended dose of his stimulant medication and the change in him is phenomonal. His neck is out on a limb, so to speak, and I'm sure could be the subject of one of those articles about out of control doctors, but it is what my son needs. For the first time in his life I feel that he has a CHANCE to succeed. Had I not put my foot down and told him that to continue to live in my house you have to do these things, I don't know where he'd be.
I will always feel guilt that I wasted years of his life trying to find someone to help him and partly buying into the theory that I'm a bad parent when I should have been going from pdoc to pdoc. There just has to be a better way. Hopefully for you, this is the one that will help you and cares enough to...
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