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Lost & Confused: 18 YO Struggling With Depression
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<blockquote data-quote="Blighty" data-source="post: 714222" data-attributes="member: 21991"><p>Your post resonated with me. My son too is a perfectionist but lacks resilience in putting in the necessary work and gives up. It is very frustrating to watch them sabotage their lives. He was a sensitive and clever child.</p><p></p><p>My son used to say he felt depressed. But then we discovered he was only depressed when he lived alone and was on his computer nearly all the time. When he could not longer afford to live alone and was living with us and we banned his computer, so he got 'clean' and improved and then we went to a psychologist who said he was not depressed at all ( just frustrated with his living situation). I'm not saying that is the same with your son, but just what they say is depression may not be. My son also lied and manipulated.</p><p></p><p>The other posters have given you great advice about taking care of yourself.</p><p></p><p>I am also a great believer in the effects of diet on mental health, and any other health for that matter. While he is your home eating your food there may be an opportunity to cut out the availabilty of any food that is not helpful. You may want to research this yourself if you are interested. Additives, sugar (including fruit juices, cakes etc), processed foods, white bread would be the first things I would eliminate. The effects may not "instant" because its not about food allergy per se; its about gut health which takes some time to rebuild. There is a book called "gut and psychology syndrome" which goes into it in more detail.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blighty, post: 714222, member: 21991"] Your post resonated with me. My son too is a perfectionist but lacks resilience in putting in the necessary work and gives up. It is very frustrating to watch them sabotage their lives. He was a sensitive and clever child. My son used to say he felt depressed. But then we discovered he was only depressed when he lived alone and was on his computer nearly all the time. When he could not longer afford to live alone and was living with us and we banned his computer, so he got 'clean' and improved and then we went to a psychologist who said he was not depressed at all ( just frustrated with his living situation). I'm not saying that is the same with your son, but just what they say is depression may not be. My son also lied and manipulated. The other posters have given you great advice about taking care of yourself. I am also a great believer in the effects of diet on mental health, and any other health for that matter. While he is your home eating your food there may be an opportunity to cut out the availabilty of any food that is not helpful. You may want to research this yourself if you are interested. Additives, sugar (including fruit juices, cakes etc), processed foods, white bread would be the first things I would eliminate. The effects may not "instant" because its not about food allergy per se; its about gut health which takes some time to rebuild. There is a book called "gut and psychology syndrome" which goes into it in more detail. [/QUOTE]
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