I haven't gotten a chance yet to watch The Medicated Child and will hopefully be able to do so before tomorrow. My response is to the Bromfield chapter about medication. His advice on when to consider medicating makes sense to me, and I want to ask: when does it make sense to consider ending medication? If medication helps open space for therapy, once that space is open, is there a time to taper off meds? Would it be once someone is "better," or are they "better" precisely because of the medication? For something like ADHD, it seems a bit like tapering off wouldn't make sense, but what about for an SSRI, anti-psychotic, or other mood stabilizer?
Also, to contextualize my question from yesterday: the theory that depression comes from a chronically hypo-aroused nervous system relates to polyvagal theory and theories of the "window of tolerance" which is summarized here: https://www.attachment-and-trauma-treatment-centre-for-healing.com/blogs/understanding-and-working-with-the-window-of-tolerance
The idea of nervous system dysregulation is very much in vogue right now and I hear it woven in to classes, things written online about mental health, discussions of somatics, and frequently connected to Van der Kolk's Body Keeps the Score.