[blparent] Kids and Meds

[Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC)]

With reference to taking meds as a way to cope with relationships, can someone explain how that works?
My knee jerk reaction is that if I need meds to cope with a relationship, then that is one relationship I don't need to be in.
What am I missing?
I have no issue with people who need meds so they can focus, but if say Jo Elizabeth and I have some kind of relationship, and I need meds to cope with that relationship, I have to at some point think about if this is a relationship I want to be in.
Can somebody explain?

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From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2012 1:05 PM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] Kids and Meds

Right, and if medication can help you cope with different relationships and
situations in your life--I don't know where I would be without my medication
for depression, and now I'm taking other things for fibromyalgia--then why
deny that to a child?  Most parents that I know who give their kids
medication are also seeking out other avenues like therapy and modification
of the environment.  Online school, for example, is the best thing that ever
happened to my stepson.  Along with taking medications, the new method of
schooling is helping him get better grades than I've seen in the nine years
I've known him.  I only knew one parent ever who seemed to purposely give
her son medications to slow him down so she could keep up with him, and
although it was sad for him, I tried not to judge her because she was
terminally ill.  I just think the attitude in our society has gotten to
where parents who resort to medications are considered bad or lazy.  But
what if, as in our case, the dietary changes don't seem to bring results?
What if, as in our case, when you don't give the meds, you start having
serious trouble with the school and eventually the law?  A lot of people
simply need chemical help, and it's way more serious than using Tylenol to
bring down a fever.

Jo Elizabeth

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of
the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all of
these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist

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From: "Sheila Leigland" <sleigland at bresnan.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2012 7:55 AM
To: "Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] Kids and Meds

> Hi, I'm in agreement with you on this one especially the part about this
> not being a blindness issue. I take depression medication also and i need
> it. It doesn't make you a bad parent or crazy or anything like that. When
> I found the right medicine I coped better with situations and
> relationships in my life.
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