Dear Kathy,

I cannot imagine how you feel but I should think you are desperate for immediate answers.
One thing you may like to know is a suicide attempt of this sort has probably not been researched - in other words it was probably a spur of the moment decision.

In that is hope because, hopefully this means that your daughters problems have not been building for long but rather that they suddenly seemed impossible to accept.

This in turn hopefully means these seemingly insurmountable issues she suddenly has can be dismantled just as quickly as she built them.

Depression is simply a result ( if not caused by chemical imbalance ), of compacted issues. ie one problem arrived in your daughters life that she did not talk about or deal with. This was on her mind and affecting her, then another problem came along that compacted on the first and so on until one day a bottle of Benedryl seemed like the only option.

GAD is obviously affecting your daughters present ability to deal with her new set of issues. OCD is a coping mechanism that will escalate at a time like this.

What your daughter needs is :

A trusted person to sit and listen and to encourage her to dissect her mind. A professional councillor is the best person for this. But for your daughter to trust will take time.
This is an uphill struggle that is possible to get over.

Love to you at this time, you are being thought about.