re: Any pharmacists or child psychologists in the house? Question re: Lexapro

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I'm still upset and nervous

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Good. Don’t ever lose that feeling. The plan for every medication should be to get off that medication as soon as clinically possible.

Don’t ever get comfortable with it and don’t ever go more than a year without trying to reduce or stop the dose.

That does not mean the meds are unsafe, it just means they are not curative and we should always be stopping meds to see if the kids have outgrown their more severe symptoms. Just like kids outgrowing seizures and kids outgrowing asthma, kids can outgrow some of their severe symptoms that require meds (even though they don’t outgrow autism or MR).

Adult mediation management is a slightly different approach but has a similar basic undercurrent.