Our fourteen year old daughter has been struggling for the last 12 months with low mood, and I’ve been worried for most of that time. We had tried to get her some counseling early this year but she was adamant she was fine. We knew she wasn’t.Things came to a head a few months ago when she deliberately overdosed, but didn’t take enough to harm herself. She came and told us immediately, absolutely hysterical. She has been seeing a psychologist since, very reluctantly. We have just found out she is self harming and she tells us she has been for a while but won’t say how long. Although she’s not been on medication we’re now about to go down that path, as she just can’t get going on getting better without it I don’t think. She’s so secretive and doesn’t want to talk but I don’t think she can recover otherwise. She talks to me, but chooses carefully what she says. For example she told me a year ago that she is gay but refuses to talk about the self harming. Her new friendship group at school has several kids with similar issues and I think they’re all bad for each other but of course can’t that in so many words. The school is aware. She has three sisters and the whole family is so worried about her and we need to look after all of them of course. Any tips for getting her to talk, not even necessarily to us, but the psych. Have people found medication helpful?
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