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How to Handle When Your Child Rejects Necessary Medication

My teenager refuses to take their ADHD medication because they say it makes them feel like a zombie and I don't know if I'm helping or hurting them by insisting.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You must navigate the tension between your parental duty to protect and your child's emerging autonomy over their own consciousness.

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