Medication

I think medication is crucial and I feel so strongly about it. I’ve been through the whole spectrum. He started at age four with Ritalin which is completely the wrong medicine for bipolar. He would come home and smack his face and cry and scream and it was awful, it was a terrible experience. Basically, it took us seven and a half years of intermittent use of medications. I was in the wrong state where they didn’t really treat him for bipolar because they thought it was just parenting. I felt like it was my fault and that all he needed was consequences, the proper consequences. So, by the time we moved to the right state and got he got the proper diagnosis it took about three months of different medication trials to find what really seems to be working. All I have to say is, medication is crucial. Anybody who says they don’t want to put their child on medication because they’re afraid they’re going to get addicted to it or they’re afraid of the side effects, I feel for them. I think they’re not seeing the forest for the trees. They need to look at how terrible their kid is feeling. These medicines aren’t addictive so I am really a proponent of taking the right medication.