Medications

I don’t advocate throwing pills at a problem.  Sometimes though, when there doesn’t seem to be any other helpful alternative, medication can be a viable solution.

Josh was in fourth grade and having meltdowns everyday because things around him were not controllable. Things were not controllable which led to him becoming out of control, and then no one had any control.  It wasn’t working out very well, but I was still opposed to medicating him. We tried various therapies, diet restrictions, calming modalities, prompts, redirects, and at that point I thought maybe I needed medication!

That’s when his pediatrician sent us to Walter Reed Medical Center to see a child psychiatrist.  That’s the first time I had to process all the information, advice, and recommendation that it was time to medicate my son.  My question; would medicine help him live a better life?  Could it help him, maybe for the first time ever, become comfortable being him?  Could it really help his overwhelming anxiety and stress that had reached a point of derailing his education?

So…he started taking medicine.  For him, it it turned out to be the right choice.  And for me, it was the right choice to drink wine…a lot of wine!

Because I have a kid with Autism, I’m asked to make decisions about things I’ve never thought of before. I am his advocate on subjects that are complicated and confusing, and exhausting.  I do okay.  This time, medicine was the question, and the answer was wine.  A lot of wine.

Listen to the Podcast  – JHA012: Medicinal Musings