My wife is a SAHM and I work from home. We are not overworked nor do I have a time-consuming job. My son struggles from anxiety and sleep loss. We tried in-person therapy, to which he did NOT take and instead had to go the medication route, which to its credit, has changed our son back into the happy-go-lucky kid he once was.
That said, after extensive consultation w/our trusted pediatrician, he still struggled with sleep and thus in addition to the anxiety meds, he's also on sleep inducing medication and takes 10mg of melatonin every night. It's not a shortcut for...reasons; it appears to help him get the rest he needs. We strongly preferred a more traditional route that did not include medication, but when those other avenues failed, we had to do something and trusted our pediatrician to help--which she did.
Sleep deprivation, anxiety, and depression are REAL issues for kids today and there have been numerous studies which have shown this is an ever-increasing, world-wide issue, regardless of available parental support and avoidance of social media and other triggers.
Let's not over simplify this as you appear to be; it's not simple and it's dangerous to think it is.
Sometimes it really is simple though. Anyone that is letting their child have drinks or foods containing caffeine, but then treating them for a sleep disorder with drugs or things like melatonin, is making a big mistake.
No idea; I'm not a doctor/specialist in this area so my opinions are largely irrelevant. I choose to lean on those who are specialists/doctors to give guidance on treatment of the symptoms while other smart people attempt to figure out the root cause.
Wow. You’re granting that complete deference a few centuries too early.
The corpus of medical knowledge available to experts is profoundly more rigorous that two centuries ago but nonetheless remains extremely shallow. Inventing a new culture of health management is an unfathomably large human effort and we’ve barely started.
And on the practical scale, the corpus that exists is informed by population averages not individual responses. When a study determines that a diagnosis or treatment is effective or not, it’s almost never establishing such as a universal truth, but instead informing clinicians as to what may most reliably help some statistical share of their patients.
As all throughout history, and for at least the next few centuries, yielding all care insight to somebody else is deeply irresponsible. You need to include your own curiosity, determination, and judgment if you want to take optimal care of yourself and your family as individuals.
This sounds like a lot of justification for "do your own research," and, in my case, I don't prescribe to that--at all.
Hey, by all means, you go ahead and use whatever tools you have available to you to make determinations about your and your family's well-being, but I'm going to trust the opinions of those who work with and treat these sorts of issues day in and day out for decades and avoid the opinions of those I do not deem to have appropriate credibility.
That said, after extensive consultation w/our trusted pediatrician, he still struggled with sleep and thus in addition to the anxiety meds, he's also on sleep inducing medication and takes 10mg of melatonin every night. It's not a shortcut for...reasons; it appears to help him get the rest he needs. We strongly preferred a more traditional route that did not include medication, but when those other avenues failed, we had to do something and trusted our pediatrician to help--which she did.
Sleep deprivation, anxiety, and depression are REAL issues for kids today and there have been numerous studies which have shown this is an ever-increasing, world-wide issue, regardless of available parental support and avoidance of social media and other triggers.
Let's not over simplify this as you appear to be; it's not simple and it's dangerous to think it is.