I don't get why people feel it is ok to take medication for say, diabetes, or a heart condition but if you have a chemical imbalance in your brain you are supposed to learn to cope with it without medication.
I think it is just wrong to withhold medication from a child that needs it. If it were...
Mine is 19 and from 14-17 were pure heck.
She started turning human around 18 and now she often makes me proud. She has become hard working, thoughtful, sensible, considerate.
Hold tight. It will happen. I never believed it back then.