"i have a 10 yr old daughter ( bi polar, anxiety and adhd ) who has been taking geodon for about two months and it&#039;s been working great! i think the most important thing to remember is to go slow.  20mg for a couple weeks then 40mg for a couple weeks and so on and so forth.   it does make you tired at 1st but it wears off after a while. my daughter was 1st on risperdal for a couple years starting at age 6 but it stopped working well and she was gaining a lot of weight.  then we eased her into abilify and she was on it for 2 years and still was gaining to much weight.  i don&#039;t think the abilify ever worked that effectively and she was just getting out of control."