Stopping medication
Last Friday, our daughter decided to stop taking her medication. She doesn't feel they do anything for her and has said this over a number of months. Each time we have spoken to the psychiatrist, they increased the dosage, which she was happy to do I think more because we were desperately hopeful it would help, and because she does like to please us. As with any increase of medication, you have to give it 4-6 weeks to take effect, so here we are many months later, dose increased to the max she can have. We did see more stable behaviour in May, but as we discussed with the psychiatrists at the time, we weren't sure if that was due to the final increase, or because she had left school. Recent events, behaviours and low mood, suggest the calm state was more due to the lack of school, which made things easier for her to manage. So, last Friday, she decided she was going to stop taking her medication. I get she hates being on it, especially when she say's it's not helping. B...