Hello everybody,
I'm new here. My 18year old daughter recently moved out to pursue a life smoking pot and possibly other drugs too. I'm in shock. She graduated from high school last year and everything looked so promising for her. She got admitted to a great college and was so eager to start her new life. After a few months though she fell in to a deep depression and tried to overdose on Xanax. We took her home and she started therapy and medication. I felt things were going pretty well this spring and she went to community college and worked on the weekends. Little did I know though that she had started smoking pot to deal with the depression. Without telling us she made plans to move out and now lives with a friend from high school who has been doing drugs for several years. She is very active on social media and there I can see her everyday smoking pot. She has no plans to go back to school or work. She managed to save up some money from working in the spring. Her rent is cheap so she can probably get by for quit some time like this. I'm terrified. My husband wants to sit back and wait until she reaches out to us for help but I feel that she is still in the beginning of this and that we need to try to reason with her. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I'm new here. My 18year old daughter recently moved out to pursue a life smoking pot and possibly other drugs too. I'm in shock. She graduated from high school last year and everything looked so promising for her. She got admitted to a great college and was so eager to start her new life. After a few months though she fell in to a deep depression and tried to overdose on Xanax. We took her home and she started therapy and medication. I felt things were going pretty well this spring and she went to community college and worked on the weekends. Little did I know though that she had started smoking pot to deal with the depression. Without telling us she made plans to move out and now lives with a friend from high school who has been doing drugs for several years. She is very active on social media and there I can see her everyday smoking pot. She has no plans to go back to school or work. She managed to save up some money from working in the spring. Her rent is cheap so she can probably get by for quit some time like this. I'm terrified. My husband wants to sit back and wait until she reaches out to us for help but I feel that she is still in the beginning of this and that we need to try to reason with her. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.