A tiny bit of improvement

Lego Lover has been on a new medication for anxiety and depression recently, having started with a low dose and increasing to the full dose last Friday. After two weeks there had been a few positives and negatives, but none we could readily attribute to the medication. Actually, that’s not quite right because he’s had stomach aches and is sleeping earlier with the medication, both common side effects. On Saturday night he told me just as he was falling asleep that he felt like the full dose was making it a little bit better. The irony was that he’d had a massive upset of a “wrong” that had been done to him that day that lasted for hours. He isn’t able to verbalise “what” is better but I find it interesting that he perceives a difference. Is this a placebo effect? Maybe he thinks he’s supposed to feel better…or maybe it is starting to make a difference. The watchful wait continues.