Posted by fakecanuck on April 2, 2009, at 23:18:26
In reply to Re: celexa for 12 year old?, posted by desolationrower on April 2, 2009, at 19:30:55
Well, I did hear the therapy push often, too. Wish it would have worked for me. At 17/18, it was just someone telling me a bunch of things I already knew, but I just couldn't stop my brain from doing what it was doing. I wasn't running the show any more. Huge disconnect from what I suspected was real and what I was feeling. But it was nothing more than suspicions. Because at that point, I'd been in the hole for as long as I could remember, and I couldn't remember what "normal" was supposed to feel like. Like describing the color of the sun to someone blind.
Only when my parents accepted that I needed stronger help did I get any better. Celexa finally interrupted the spiral long enough for my own thoughts/therapy to do some good. I finally had solid evidence that the pain could really stop, and how I could think when it did. Just even being able to envision myself some other way than drowning helped tremendously. It gave me evidence that it really could stop, and there didn't have to be only one way out.
I can definitely see that not every kid's experience would be like mine, and therapy may really work for other kids with less severe cases, maybe with no family history, etc... But I do think that in my case, so much of the misery was just pointless damage. I could have had a childhood.
That kind of call -- how bad is it and what kind of intervention does the kid need -- I don't envy parents that have to make it, but obviously from personal experience I think that at some point, the risk of long-term damage only matters if the kid survives to see the long term.
I kind of like the idea that you (I think) were alluding to before: if it is Celexa specifically that is a worry, but suicide is a definite threat, maybe try some other medicine with therapy.
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