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05-18-2017, 09:17 PM | #1 | ||
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She has no friends only school acquaintances. All of the girls at her school are superficial. How can I cheer her up? All she wants to do is sleep or stay on her Iphone. And she hates her school.
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"Thanks for this!" says: | Skeezyks (05-19-2017) |
05-19-2017, 04:34 PM | #2 | |||
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So sorry to hear
I'm having four children Three in their thirties My nineteen year old has been a very difficult challenging road not only for her but new gor myself Get her help ASAP PLEASE HEAR ME GET HER INTO GROUP I have come to learn I am not the only parent who's child is not doing anything with their life It is the phone phone phone and nothing else No outside life Still trying to get help Very difficult to watch this happen to my child Good wishes that you will have some success She will need the right type of help Me
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05-19-2017, 07:06 PM | #3 | ||
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Hello bobie: I'm sorry your daughter is having such difficulty. Welcome to NeuroTalk. May the time you spend here be of benefit.
From my perspective, it's difficult to know if what you are observing is simply a combination of teenage angst plus the current focus kids nowadays have on their phone, or if this is a sign your daughter is actually struggling with a type of mood disorder. From my perspective at least there's a fine line that can potentially divide these two possibilities. I'm primarily a member on NeuroTalk's sister website: PsychCentral. And I will tell you that the forums on PC are full of posts whose subject matter revolves around situations similar to your daughter's... most of the posts being written by the young people themselves... but occasionally by the parents too. As I'm sure you are already painfully aware, there are no easy answers here. I wonder about possibly having your daughter seen by a school counselor or psychologist if her school has these types of professionals available. You could possibly also talk with her teachers. Perhaps you've already done so. Of course, you could also go straight for a mental health therapist not affiliated with your daughter's school. Realistically, though, in order for this to be of any real benefit, your daughter would need to be willing to do it. Trying to force her to participate in something like this is only likely to create dissension. Sometimes it's helpful if there is something a parent & child can watch together that can serve as a starting point for discussion. There's an education writer named Parker J. Palmer. And, in one of his books, he refers to this as a "third thing". I don't know if either you, or your daughter, are familiar with California therapist Kati Morton. But Kati has a YouTube channel where she uploads videos on a wide variety of mental health topics. Kati is young & full of energy & very committed to helping young people, especially teenage girls & young women, to overcome emotional difficulties & mental health issues. Watching some of Kati's videos together might help the two of you to establish a conversation with regard to what's going on. By the way, Kati also has her own mental health website. If your daughter isn't familiar with it, she might check it out & find that to be of interest as well. Here's a link to Kati's YouTube channel. Your daughter can access Kati's website from her YouTube channel: Kati Morton - YouTube Good luck! |
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05-19-2017, 09:14 PM | #4 | |||
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Another thing to consider- bullying- can be physical or emotional.
If most issues are mainly school related , perhaps that is why...
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"Thanks for this!" says: | PamelaJune (05-20-2017) |
05-20-2017, 09:02 AM | #5 | |||
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I someone who graduated HS in 1979
Furthered my education As I would long ago Would have seen the world As I studied to be a flight attendant My life changed when I had married and had my babies With the simplicity of a electric typewriter Home row still based on the typewriter Yet now the things I thought of when I was a little girl Are now in our life everyday We can see each other when we talk on the phone I am frozen in time technology wise I am limited And I perfer it that way So impersonal when used on a different level My experience with four of my children the first three born in the early eighties First one in 1981 From her to my youngest Multifactoral reasons And have expressed having watched very closely to all ingredients and in today's phone usages and no interest in anything life has to offer Having had many to help Meaning the professionals It has become like a drug Obsession phone usage I am just a parent who watched her child have a difficult time at the same age starting high school Not knowing anybody Trying to define herself with the choices she had made and continues to make I am saddened to watch it This generation is like no other A open mother I am Help me understand But I know addiction when I see it It too goes hand in hand with other very important matters she does not want to get help for Not things to be taken lightly Won't mention them as I want to stay on point No self esteem plus bullying the feel of no where to turn to I have seen what social media has done to my children and I can say wholeheartedly I speak of my personal experience And she is stuck And she has to take charge and do something with her life And to seek the help she needs I kills to watch it happen The world hears so much hate I believe in Jesus Christ Something my family knows and hears me speak to him throughout their life Now it is being taken out of the things I sang in class as a little girl Such as "God bless America Land that I love Stand beside her and guide her through the night with the light from above" I do not shove any religion down anybodies belief My children are in flux with where their heart and faith if any. Ones from This j see in my family And only speak of our experience Hope I have been able to get out as a mommy
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