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Help her? Let her sink? What's a mom of an 18 yr old to do?
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<blockquote data-quote="recovering doormat" data-source="post: 209921" data-attributes="member: 5941"><p>Lots of help for me here,and I thank you. In my mind, every waking minute, I'm doing that seesaw: let her own her problems/she's clinically depressed and can't help it. It's mentally, physically and emotionally exhausting, and I've got two other high-maintenance kids! Thanks for understanding.</p><p> </p><p>As far as the medications go, she did have a long period, almost a year, of high functioing and getting-her-act-together when she was taking Prozac. She completed high school and graduated with her peers despite missing over a year of classroom learning due to her many absences by attending a therapeutic day school. She joined a Christian-based youth group and attended a week long camp in North Carolina, came back happy and healthy and bursting with enthusiasm...but then something happens, she stops her medications, starts her pity -party (I'm fat, ugly, have no friends, no future, I'm dumb...) and it;s all downhill from there.</p><p> </p><p>It could be recreational drug use on top of all this as well. Several years ago she smoked a joint that was laced with PCP and got so depressed she ended up in the psychiatric hospital. We didn't know why her medications weren't working until she was hospitalied and the toxicology tests came back. </p><p> </p><p>The latest trauma was that I had to give up our beagle and cat to new homes due to my youngest's severe asthma. My difficult child 1 reacted very emotionally, as I predicted, but a month later she's still crying over their absence, despite not really helping out with the critters and living at her dad's. I feel badly that she no longer has that comfort,but she hangs on to thingst that hurt her for a very long time. I'm not saying they are not big losses but at some point you have to stop mourning the past.</p><p> </p><p>I feel better having posted. Thanks again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="recovering doormat, post: 209921, member: 5941"] Lots of help for me here,and I thank you. In my mind, every waking minute, I'm doing that seesaw: let her own her problems/she's clinically depressed and can't help it. It's mentally, physically and emotionally exhausting, and I've got two other high-maintenance kids! Thanks for understanding. As far as the medications go, she did have a long period, almost a year, of high functioing and getting-her-act-together when she was taking Prozac. She completed high school and graduated with her peers despite missing over a year of classroom learning due to her many absences by attending a therapeutic day school. She joined a Christian-based youth group and attended a week long camp in North Carolina, came back happy and healthy and bursting with enthusiasm...but then something happens, she stops her medications, starts her pity -party (I'm fat, ugly, have no friends, no future, I'm dumb...) and it;s all downhill from there. It could be recreational drug use on top of all this as well. Several years ago she smoked a joint that was laced with PCP and got so depressed she ended up in the psychiatric hospital. We didn't know why her medications weren't working until she was hospitalied and the toxicology tests came back. The latest trauma was that I had to give up our beagle and cat to new homes due to my youngest's severe asthma. My difficult child 1 reacted very emotionally, as I predicted, but a month later she's still crying over their absence, despite not really helping out with the critters and living at her dad's. I feel badly that she no longer has that comfort,but she hangs on to thingst that hurt her for a very long time. I'm not saying they are not big losses but at some point you have to stop mourning the past. I feel better having posted. Thanks again. [/QUOTE]
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