Son Refuses to Take Medication. Help!

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My 7-year-old has OCD and ADHD. One of his anxieties concerns taking medicine.

He says he can taste it (even if it's a pill) and won't give in. We recently

switched to a new ADHD pill because we couldn't afford the name-brand version.

He won't take it. I try to reason with him, but rational thinking doesn't work.

He's not open to any of the techniques I've found on websites describing how to

get your child to take a pill.

Are there any tricks that have worked for you? I'm at the end of my rope, and

I've just yelled at him because I'm so frustrated. I know that was the wrong

thing to do, but I'm just so despondent.