I'm fairly new to the board and was wondering if any of you have had to take your child to a psychologist?

My daughter is 9 and is very down since becoming sick. She was involved in all kinds of sports and school activiites which she's now unable to do.

Has this helped your child or children out?

Any other suggestions would also be appreciated.

Maybe someone else can tell you their experiences with taking a child for some kind of mental health help.
 

Can you email me the names of these Lyme Literate psychiatrists?

Thank you!
 

Good luck.
 

we have an appointment on Monday--would you eamil me the names so our lady would consult?

Thanks,
Linda

The doc names I have are in NJ and PA. Still interested? Or would this just be phone consulting?
 

Depressed and has lots of anxiety.

Thanks in advance.

Maria

It would be a phone consult. I doubt if any doctors here know anything about l.d.

L

(another possibility might be family counseling of some kind. I heard about such a service run by a lymie, but can't remember off hand where it was. Think this would only work in person.)

[This message has been edited by lou (edited 08 April 2005).]
 

Be careful regarding the qualifications of the dr that you see..We wasted a lot of valuable time with non ll psychs.. Perhaps my daughter would not have gotten so very ill..

She is now very depressed, has OCD and has attempted suicide numerous times..Many moms on here share my horrors of this disease..But some might be too busy battling to post..

No one protocol works for every child..It is experimental..You also might want to investigate Bartonella.Good luck..

ps. Lou thanks for all that you have done to keep lymenet going and now all that you continue to do for us.

[This message has been edited by lymemomtooo (edited 08 April 2005).]
 

So sorry about your daughter. Hope things turn around before long. Guess you read lisa/smiley's story. Her daughter was in similar shape and is now doing well. Keeping my fingers crossed for you all.
 

My kids do have lyme and one has a genetic disorder but either way the psychologist/therapist they see has been immenseley(sp?) helpful just to give them an outlet to talk about anything they want to and not worry about upsetting mom or dad.

As for LL Psychiatrist, what a great idea, I believe I should do that too!

Good luck, I know its a hard battle, but the kids are young enough, it can be won.
 

sorry to hear your little girl is struggling. each story breaks my heart.

i'm a mom of 2 boys with lyme. both have a multitude of problems. I am at the drs. offices 3x/week for them or me.

My 10 yr. old started having problems when he was 7. He had a major depression that seemed to just hit out of the blue. I took to see several people. He seemed stable until this year.

All of a sudden he went from being ADD to ADHD and a another depression hit. He also became obsessive compulsive and an insomniac.

I decided to switch drs. and we have made some progress. We have had to switch meds so much. Right now we are focusing on a med for sleeping. Next we will focus on his ADHD med. I have brought lyme info. to this dr. and have begun to educate him on the disease. I have also told him to watch for more children with these kind of symptoms because they may have lyme.

We also go to a really great psychotherapist and this is definately helping him. This is also another dr. who knows nothing about lyme, but has been willing to learn more and work with us.

My best advice is to just stay tuned into your intuition about your daugther. No one knows her better than you do. Sometimes when I think back, there were just subtle things I needed to pay attention to. When I ignored my intuition I always missed something that may have helped him sooner. Then again, I had no idea I was dealing with Lyme disease. That changed everything.

Hope you find the help that you need. It really does make a difference.

regards
paisley