Sometimes, medication is inevitable for certain psychological conditions in children, but parents are apprehensive about starting their young children on medications due to fear of side effects. Our team will assess the need for pharmacotherapy, provide you with best available options, inform you of the potential side effects and will be in close follow up with you and your child once medications are started.

There are some common myths regarding psychiatric medication:

• They are addictive
• They cause sedation
• Once started, they need to be continued life long
• They retard growth in kids
• They turn kids into zombies