Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New profile posts
Latest activity
Internet Search
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Parent Support Forums
General Parenting
Sigh-easy child's depression
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="flutterbee" data-source="post: 223419"><p>I'm sorry she's still struggling so much. I was about her age when I started having major depressive episodes - a little younger when they started. My junior year, I missed a total of 6 weeks of school in one semester. Not all together, but a couple of days a week. Fortunately, I managed to get nothing lower than a C, but they didn't assign as much homework then as they do today; nor did they cover as much material so quickly. It wasn't as hard to get caught up.</p><p></p><p>Does the school know what's going on? Anyway to get an intervention team together? I'm thinking that might be a good first step rather than an IEP since you don't know how long this will go on. Most schools will do the intervention team and if that is not successful will evaluate for an IEP. I'm sure as a teacher you know this. Or maybe therapeutic day school might be a good idea for a short while - 6 weeks like smallworld's son, maybe. </p><p></p><p>She sounds like she's slipping further and further and that just makes it harder to come out of. I really think it's time to pull out all the stops. In a depressed state such as this, natural consequences may just push her over the edge. </p><p></p><p>The way I explain it - the way it was for me....it was like I was struggling every day just to keep my head above water. I was in full survival mode and I couldn't handle anything else. It took absolutely everything I had just to get through the day. I was doing the absolute best I could, but my best at that time really sucked. So, when something else happened, it pushed me over the edge. I ended up in a psychotic depression and I ended up in the psychiatric hospital twice in less than 6 months. I remember telling my friends that I couldn't do this anymore. And my friends saying, but you have to; you have kids. And me saying, it doesn't matter if I have to; I can't. It wasn't that I didn't want to; I didn't want to be like this. It was that the depression had taken over my life and I couldn't cope for one more day. I struggled to get through the next second, the next minute, the next hour. Until I couldn't anymore. The depression was oppressive and all consuming.</p><p></p><p>I'm not trying to scare you. I'm just trying to show you how serious it can become and it sounds like easy child is heading in that direction. It can easily become something she can no longer control on her own even with medications.</p><p></p><p>((((hugs))) for you and for easy child.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="flutterbee, post: 223419"] I'm sorry she's still struggling so much. I was about her age when I started having major depressive episodes - a little younger when they started. My junior year, I missed a total of 6 weeks of school in one semester. Not all together, but a couple of days a week. Fortunately, I managed to get nothing lower than a C, but they didn't assign as much homework then as they do today; nor did they cover as much material so quickly. It wasn't as hard to get caught up. Does the school know what's going on? Anyway to get an intervention team together? I'm thinking that might be a good first step rather than an IEP since you don't know how long this will go on. Most schools will do the intervention team and if that is not successful will evaluate for an IEP. I'm sure as a teacher you know this. Or maybe therapeutic day school might be a good idea for a short while - 6 weeks like smallworld's son, maybe. She sounds like she's slipping further and further and that just makes it harder to come out of. I really think it's time to pull out all the stops. In a depressed state such as this, natural consequences may just push her over the edge. The way I explain it - the way it was for me....it was like I was struggling every day just to keep my head above water. I was in full survival mode and I couldn't handle anything else. It took absolutely everything I had just to get through the day. I was doing the absolute best I could, but my best at that time really sucked. So, when something else happened, it pushed me over the edge. I ended up in a psychotic depression and I ended up in the psychiatric hospital twice in less than 6 months. I remember telling my friends that I couldn't do this anymore. And my friends saying, but you have to; you have kids. And me saying, it doesn't matter if I have to; I can't. It wasn't that I didn't want to; I didn't want to be like this. It was that the depression had taken over my life and I couldn't cope for one more day. I struggled to get through the next second, the next minute, the next hour. Until I couldn't anymore. The depression was oppressive and all consuming. I'm not trying to scare you. I'm just trying to show you how serious it can become and it sounds like easy child is heading in that direction. It can easily become something she can no longer control on her own even with medications. ((((hugs))) for you and for easy child. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Parent Support Forums
General Parenting
Sigh-easy child's depression
Top