My 15-year-old daughter has been suffering for two years or so with mental health problems. She's been seeing a CAMHS psychologist and her depression is a million times better, but she still gets panic attacks, which seem to come out of the blue, very unpredictably, and are very hard to control or overcome. Because of these and the depression she's had to leave school (although she's doing some GCSEs from home). Her psychologist has suggested going on medication to help with the panic, as a temporary thing to get her through the stress of going on holiday with us and her two younger sisters (I was kind of surprised by this, I didn't think she found it that bad, but apparently it is) - does anyone have any experience or knowledge of medication of this kind for adolescents? Unfortunately, I don't know what kind of drugs will be suggested (we have to have an appointment with a psychiatrist to discuss it) but I'd like if possible to find out a little bit ahead of time.
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