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When psychiatric medication changes your child's personality

My son's medication makes him zombie-like and he says he feels like a different person but without it he cannot function and I do not know which version of him is real.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Parents struggle with the moral weight of choosing between their child's authentic self and their functional self.

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