need to talk to someone about my daughter & mood disorders?

Question

hello! my name is leslye & currently my youngest daughter is in residental treatment for adhd and an emotional disorder which im not getting the response i need. axis 1 is what the determation is with high risk to suicide. can someone help me to understand what she is going through and just be there for me. this is very hard since im already sick and slowly dying myself which isn't helping her at all. my daughter is very concerned about losing me and it seems as though she wants to die first so she doesn't have to see me go through it or walk into bedroom and notice im gone. please help me someone. thanks. leslye c

hello! i would like to thank everyone who wrote something. i just finished reading them and all are great. we have family therapy today so i will find out more today. thanks again for all your help i will probably have more questions and it is nice to talk and read what other people have written. has anyone gotten disability for their issues or have been labeled disabled for their issues. please let me know thanks again, leslye

Answer 1

I have mental illness that runs in my family and have some issues myself. What has worked best for me and my mom is going to a psychotherapist. Even though are situations are different. It helped my mom understand me better and it felt good to talk to someone other than my parents. The therapist can help her deal with the thoughts of suicide so she doesn't act upon it. I have to tell you am only 22 years old. It can be very lonely sometimes. What helped me was being surrounded by family. You are in my prayers.

Answer 2

She may just be normal going through them hormone yrs.
Kids say that suicide stuff and really dont mean it, they pick it up from the school bus.
Your kid may be misdianogized and should be home with you instead of some looney facility that is pumpin her with drugs that could cause her to get worser.
U need to bring her home and u both pray together and support each other. Prayer changes things and heals
She probably just need B vitamins for stress and also u.

Answer 3

Oh, I'm sorry. You two have chosen a difficult path.
You both need to learn that you have chosen to experience this and that it is not a bad thing no matter how bad it may seem. Death is a fact of life and everyone has to learn to deal with it their own way. Whatever your daughter decides to do is allright and whatever you decide to do is allright. There are no wrong choices. All is good, even in illness and death. Find your strengths in this and good luck.

Answer 4

Dear Leslye,

In order to help your daughter, the best you can do for her is to be in good spiritual health. Yes, spirtual health is catching and passes on from one person to another.
Someone with depression needs a reason to live and an optimistic approach to life.

You must have seen many times the advice they give that in an emergency, help yourself first, than help the child with you.
It seems contrary to our instinct, but it is the best thing to do.
If we put an oxygen mask in ourselves first, than we can help a child to put on theirs. Otherwise both may perish.
If you jump in a river to get a child, make sure you are tied to a rope, or have a life vest on you. Many drowned for not following this simple advice, which is only common sense!

In your case, you need to seek a supernatural perspective in life, which transcends the physical, since your body is not well at this time. If you can, find a good church in your neighborhood and start attending. Get yourself in a position of internal peace, and that peace will overflow to your daugher as well. Depressed kids need hope. There is no greater source of hope than having a supernatural perspective that there is ONE GOD, HE is GOOD, cares about us, and that everything that happens to us has ONLY one purpose: to draw us closer to him, so that we can know HIM better and one day be with HIM in a much, much better world than this one. A world without suffering and pain, without death and deseases, where only joy and peace exist in everyone's hearts.

God bless you.

If you want someone to talk to, you can email me at robertob003 in the yahoo mail.

Answer 5

I think you just need to let youre daughter know that you love her. above anything else.
which i know that you do, otherwise you wouldnt be so concerned.
I know that she must love you too above all because she is so devastated that you are going to be leaving her and she cant stand to live without you.
You just need to let her know that you will always be there for her even when youre body may not be there, and that she sould continue to live on as a gift from your body, because you will be living on in her life.
ZIf she loves you and you love her she should be willing to better herself and embrace herself and life a full and happy life knowing that she will always have the highest of you love, and it will always be nearest to her! :)