I don't know the kid or the family but it is often better to find alternative treatments. There is a LOT of evidence out now that SSRI's do very little to actually help. From what I have observed they are less about "helping" and more about making you "compliant". Plenty of people are anxious about a lot of things that don't make sense. They don't go take SSRI's because of it.
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>A Texas mother is at the center of the debate over medicating children after revealing her decision to get her son on antidepressants at age seven. In an op-ed, Sydni Ellis said she had spent much of her son’s seven years fretting over his persistent worrying over peculiar and mundane things. Some of his anxious thoughts included: How does home insurance work? If the house burns down, will we still be able to pay for toys? Will a monster get me as I walk across the house to my bedroom? Why does my heart feel broken? He had been exhibiting signs of anxiety for years, clinging to his mother and father in public places, having trouble sleeping, struggling to focus in class, as well as ‘explosive’ outbursts and bouts of irritability. She enrolled her son in biweekly talk therapy - but when that didn't work his doctor suggested Zoloft, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI).
I don't know the kid or the family but it is often better to find alternative treatments. There is a LOT of evidence out now that SSRI's do very little to actually help. From what I have observed they are less about "helping" and more about making you "compliant". Plenty of people are anxious about a lot of things that don't make sense. They don't go take SSRI's because of it.
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>>A Texas mother is at the center of the debate over medicating children after revealing her decision to get her son on antidepressants at age seven.
In an op-ed, Sydni Ellis said she had spent much of her son’s seven years fretting over his persistent worrying over peculiar and mundane things.
Some of his anxious thoughts included: How does home insurance work? If the house burns down, will we still be able to pay for toys? Will a monster get me as I walk across the house to my bedroom? Why does my heart feel broken?
He had been exhibiting signs of anxiety for years, clinging to his mother and father in public places, having trouble sleeping, struggling to focus in class, as well as ‘explosive’ outbursts and bouts of irritability.
She enrolled her son in biweekly talk therapy - but when that didn't work his doctor suggested Zoloft, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI).
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