Aliens have abducted my child

This is a follow up to a blog I posted in October about O's sleeping habits/anxiety, and how we were considering medication for him. After a lot of thought, consideration, and consultation with O's doctor and therapist, we decided to try O on some medication for his anxiety. Children with anxiety are usually prescribed an anti-depressant, like Prozac or Zoloft, O is taking Fluoxetine, the generic Prozac. I am happy to say that O's behavior and coping have improved greatly. I didn't want to influence any opinions on O's behavior, so we didn't tell many people he had started taking it. After 4 weeks I called his teacher to see her impressions, and she said his behavior was much better the preceding 2 weeks. I asked his instructor at the Little Gym who's known O for a few years, and she said he handled things and acted better in class. I asked his acting class teacher, she said his behavior had been like night and day the last couple of weeks. It confirmed what my wife and I had thought, that the medication was helping. We had removed the crib mattress from our room, and O was now sleeping in his room all night. He also was down to waking up only once or twice, usually for a bathroom break, and currently has slept through the night 6 of the last 7 nights. We're working towards eliminating the need for him to wake us up, but it's a process, and things are much better overall. O has been a model child since Christmas, he even volunteered to set the table for dinner. He has been doing things he never would have done before like going downstairs alone or watching A Nightmare Before Christmas. He still will occasionally lose control of his emotions, but those are rare, and he now regains control and gets over things much quicker. He's even being more patient with his brother, playing with him more, reading to him, and helping him do things. All in all, it's been like having a new boy, he's still the same O we love, but with a new improved calming software update. We'll reevaluate O every 6 months to decide how the medicine is working and if we need to change anything. Hopefully at some point sooner rather than later we can take him off the meds. In the meantime we'll continue too enjoy the sleep and watching him flourish uninhibited by his anxieties.