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When adult children oppose a parent's psychiatric medication decisions

Our adult children keep pushing my wife to get off her psychiatric medications because they think she's 'not herself' on them, but they don't remember how bad things were before, and we don't know how to handle their pressure as a united front.

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Family dynamics become strained when different generations have conflicting views about psychiatric medication necessity and identity impacts.

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