Hi Mark,

I hear your passion and appreciate it. There is nothing like lived experience to add to knowlege.

My daughter is just entering grade 9.

She was planning to go to a very "achievement" oriented high school but while out of school for all of the spring last year decided to attend our neighborhood high school. It has been fantastic. It is not a high pressure enviornment in anyway and we are thrilled.

It turns out that none of her current teachers believe in homework so she has not been needing to study at night.

Sadly we learned about too much stress the hard way last year and we were really feeling good that her schedule was quite manageable this semester.

Obviously we are really concerned as what is happening opens up a lot of questions about whether she will remain symptom free.

I know her computer teacher will be very good about working with us.

My daughter does have dyslexia and this likely complicates things in terms of getting taxed cognitively. She is bright and loves to do well and is prone to over doing and yes she has to work harder to begin with

I think you are absolutely correct about the need to develop good methods and strategies for studying to prevent cramming.

We are hoping to help with stress and headache through the biofeedback. There is someone here who is well recommended who does the Qeeg neurofeedack.

Unfortunately I have been unable to get our doctor to test vitamin levels for anything. I am paying out of pocket to have it done.

I am going to take her to someone who specializes in bioidentical hormones as I've read about progesterone and I think we need to try and get that on board. Interestingly she was at the end of her cycle and this was only her second cycle ever so it has me wanting to get this all checked out.

We are aware that life in the more mellow lane will really benefit her. I personally hope she will start at a community college and go from there. We certainly wish she didn't have all this on her plate. She is a really wonderful person and is remarkably unself pitying

Thanks again for all the good information.