Daughter depressed:(

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Registered: 10-02-2003
Daughter depressed:(
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Tue, 10-26-2004 - 7:06am
I am feeling so incredibly helpless. My dd is depressed and having panic and anxiety attacks. She is doing bad in school again this year. Last year she failed due to panic and anxiety. She gets easily overwhelmed at school and last year she dealt with that by skipping classes. I don't want to see her do that this year but she has already started having physical illnesses because of the anxiety...headaches, stomach problems being lightheaded and on and on and she is missing time from school. I have an appointment with a pdoc for her on November 17th. God that seems so far away. I hate seeing my child hurt and I want an immediate fix to her problems. I am having a hard time not getting depressed over this myself. I am having anxiety real bad over not being able to help her. She wants me to check into homeschooling where a teacher comes in my home and teaches her several hours a week. That is hard to get because I would need a doctor to say she is unable to attend school right now and is in need of the homeschooling and she is under the doctors care. This takes time 'IF' I can get a doctor to do this for me. I have already been having a very hard time sleeping and this doesn't help. I feel drained right now but I am edgy and feel jumpy. If I take too much meds to calm me down then I am still unable to sleep right and am dragging all day and in a fog or I sleep on and off day and night. God how I hate this! I really needed to vent and any support or advice would be appreciated. Any one else have kids with depression problems? How do you help a teen with depression and anxiety? School and life is hard enough for teens and then to have depression and anxiety too, that is rough. I sometimes sound irritated towards her when she comes to me with these issues because I feel so helpless and like I have no control over this situation and it scares me. I need to calm down over all this. Thanks for reading. Hope everyone else is doing well.

Tina~

 
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Registered: 10-04-2004
Tue, 10-26-2004 - 11:12am

Tina -


posted a reply to you on the Depression Support Board!


peace and love,

just_a_big_kid

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Registered: 09-01-2004
Tue, 10-26-2004 - 7:02pm

Tina,

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Registered: 10-02-2003
Wed, 10-27-2004 - 10:07am
Marci-

I spoke to the school counselor to see about the homeschooling and he said he would like to hold up on that because he is working on trying to my dd extra help in class. They are also looking into Special ED classes for her so she would have more help in class. He said if she does homeschooling she will get behind on her electives and she won't get credit for those and that may cause more stress on her. It made sense to me so for now I am going along with that. My dd stayed home from school another day...UGH...I hate this. She did talk to me last night for about 2 hours about her feelings and it kind of sounds like she is having signs of being bipolar. I am not a doctor but I hear the signs from her. I have a couple of teen sites for her to go to and she thanked me for them. She got on the sites last night. It is hard enough having these illnesses ourselves and dealing with ourselves everyday but then when our kids have these issues it is a double whammy. I am going to keep calling the pdocs office to see if there are any cancellations to fit my dd in earlier. I hope so. I go to my pdoc today and hopefully he can help me with some new meds or tweaking mine to help me through my depression period right now. It is pretty bad.

Tina~