If only I had known sooner. A mother's late message.

I'm the mother of a son in his final year of high school. I want to put down the one thing I most regret, looking back from where we are now. When he was in his second year of high school, he told me he wouldn't take his medication anymore. I began looking for things we could try alongside or in place of it, and that's when I came across SmartDream. By then, though, he had already grown up so much. He tried it a few times, found it uncomfortable, and put it aside. I keep wishing I had known about it just a little earlier.

During the time I believed medication alone would be enough, my son was, in truth, struggling more than I realized. To mothers with younger children, I would say this gently. Please don't rely on medication alone. Speak with your doctor about whether something like SmartDream could be considered as an adjunct, and most of all, watch over your child's heart carefully. Understanding their smallest actions, explaining the world to them, making sure they never feel alone. These matter more than I understood at the time. I don't think I did enough of that, and that thought still sits heavily with me.

In the end, my son told me he wanted to walk a different path, not one through schoolwork, and I told him to go ahead.

These days I'm the one using SmartDream. I started out of simple curiosity, but with it on while I sleep, the thoughts that used to chain together and weigh me down feel as if they're settling a little. I'm about to start studying again. I hope SmartDream becomes a good companion for me too, and I plan to keep using it steadily.