My 11 year old has recently been prescribed Concerta

I was put on Concerta at 26 after about a year of seeing a psychiatrist and therapist regularly for anxiety.

I was always a great student, daughter, friend, I have a wonderful career, and by no means appear any different than the next overachiever and mature adult. Beneath the surface I’ve struggled my whole life insane amounts of stress, sleeping issues, depression, binge eating, and pushing down emotions/coping mechanisms. As a kid and college student I had all As but couldn’t do my work or studies until I was under a serious time crunch and I would make myself sick from exhaustion. Concerta was my physiatrists last resort after a string of antidepressants and for the first time in my life I feel like my stress doesn’t dictate my life and I can actually relax and be myself and be present. Work is a lot easier too.

I’m not a parent but from conversations with my own I understand that this feels personal to you. It could really help, though. If I had a parent who was open to trying something like this out I probably would have struggled a lot less. You don’t always know what’s going on inside your child’s mind and this is a complicated age.

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