Posted by Dinah on February 24, 2005, at 11:18:17
In reply to Re: be careful about one thing » stresser, posted by AuntieMel on February 24, 2005, at 8:44:55
Boy, ain't that the truth. Many people, professionals included, don't "get" my son. The first psychologist we went to wanted to do a lot of behavioral interventions and discussed the possibility of SSRI's. The poor boy was in preschool.
We took some of his advice on behavioral modification, taking out the judgemental parts about his behavior being a manipulation (geesh, what a way to think about any other human being), and threw SSRI's out as an option. The idiot thought my son had plenty of extra brain cells that he could lose in SSRI dumbing down!
He was fine for several years but is struggling again a bit with the stressors we've had this year so we were preemptive and brought him to a play therapist. This one "gets" him. She thinks that once he learns some coping mechanisms he'll be ok, and that no medication is needed. She sees him as a sensitive kid who feels things intensely, is a bit perfectionistic, and it all gets to be too much for him sometimes and he melts down. She wants to teach him strategies for letting out the feelings a bit at a time. And she wants to let him know it's ok to make mistakes.
Sigh. I don't know how the first one managed to stay a kid's psychologist for so long. He certainly didn't share my basic belief that kids should be treated with the same respect anyone deserves.
Oops. I've gone off on a tangent.
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