Anxiety Sucks!!

Recently an old friend posted on Facebook posted this:
"add, adhd, anxiety, and depression are all fictitious ailments perpetrated by the government to make you think you're not "normal" and buy THEIR medications so they can get rich off of you meanwhile you're popping all kinds of harmful pills that's destroying your body and your individuality. EVERYONE worries sometimes, EVERYONE gets sad sometimes, EVERYONE loses focus sometimes." 
The rest of what was said is way too inappropriate for me to share on here.  But lets just say, I'm furious by this.  We have been struggling with some severe anxiety with Kristopher for going on a year now.  The past month or so has been out of control bad with it, and we're struggling to cope without feeling like we're traumatizing him or hurting him in some way. 
I DO NOT want to medicate.  He's so young, and I feel that with proper therapy, we can push through this and help him learn to cope without medication.  But, we're very close to that step. 
He currently sees a child psychologist who does play therapy.  She's been really awesome this past year with tips and amazing support as we struggle with how to parent and deal with him in a positive way.  But, we're getting close to the point of her not being able to help.  The tips she's given us, he's not willing to listen to anymore.  He gets himself so upset, and is making himself physically ill on a nightly basis.  We have started giving melatonin for bed, and while it does shorten our episodes, he still goes to bed every night extremely upset and it takes being hard on him and refusing to talk about it anymore, to get him to stay in his bed and go to sleep.  Most nights, he falls asleep crying.  The next step will be if we can't gain some form of control and help him get past this, that he will be sent to a psychiatrist.  He will get a total mental work up, and labeled as clinical anxiety.  And put on an antidepressant.  At 7 years old.  SEVEN. 
Ever since our stomach flu incident about 6 weeks ago, he's struggled with bedtime.  He has a major fear of getting sick, and assumes that every growl or weird feeling in his stomach means he has to crap, so he's going at least 6-10 times in the evenings, and then worries when he tries and can't go, that he will vomit in his sleep, or have an accident.  He also has decided he doesn't want to sleep alone anymore.  We tried cosleeping when he was a baby.  He didn't do well with it.  He slept so much better on his own, in his own bed/area and with no distractions or hearing anyone else getting up.  It still continues.  If he has a sleepover, he sleeps horrible because of the other person.  He loves it, but he hears everything, stays up way too late because of excitement, then gets up way too early because he hears someone else get up to use the bathroom, or cough, or anything really.  He's been sleeping alone for the past 7 and half years.  I'm not starting it now.

And with his anxiety, he can shut it off.  He doesn't have any issues at all at school.  Both myself, and the therapist have been talking to the school, and they act like we're confused on what kid we're dealing with.  He can completely shut it off with other people.  He doesn't do this when he spends the night with my parents.  He doesn't do it if we have someone sleep over.  If we go camping, totally fine.  But get him anywhere near bedtime here, and it all goes crazy. He is so sleep deprived and emotional lately.  I feel terrible when he goes to bed upset, but this kid can talk and talk for hours to try to reason with us on why he should be allowed to sleep somewhere else. 

But anyway, this status thing this morning sent me over the edge.  I do agree to some extent that everyone is very quick to jump to diagnosis, and once the school has to deal with it at all, they want to shove medication into the loop.  But, to some people, these issues are very much there, and no amount of talking or therapy can help.  To sit there and say that it's all made up, is the biggest load of crap I have ever heard.  I hope that he never has a child that has to go through this, or marries someone who is going through it and has to witness how hard it truly can be.  What we're dealing with is very real.  It's very hard to deal with and to keep a positive mindset.  I wish that there was a magical switch that could change it, and allow my child to be a normal kid.  That we could go back to normal stress free bedtime, and everyone could get proper sleep.  But this is our life for now, and we will continue to fight it and push through.  And I dare someone to actually say that it's all made up and fake, to my face.  They will live to regret it.