I have asked her about them and apparently they are friends from uni that she has kept in contact with. ... View more

I've had 3 kids down with the flu for 10 days including said daughter. The Dr weighed her and said she is a little underweight. She wants her to firstly recover from this virus and then have some blood tests and then go back to discuss the results and her general health & wellbeing. As she has been so sick with the flu she has been much more open to me helping her. Over the past few days I have been establishing some better eating patterns with her and she has been trying to eat as much as she can manage while sick. I didn't see her weight at the drs but she did, and she seems to be trying to eat more and more regularly since then even though she is sick. I think it helps that I'm preparing her 3 meals a day while she's recovering from the flu. Her mood seems a bit better too and she seems a little more open to me at the moment. Hopefully, she'll follow up with the dr in a couple of weeks and then we'll be able to think about what needs to happen going forward. One thing I'm wondering about is who her online friends are as while sick she was too unwell to go online and seemed much more open despite being so sick. Now she's feeling much better she's back online playing playstation and seems a little less open again, but I could just be imagining that as it's only been today that she's been up to it. ... View more

Thanks for the support. We have the flu in our home at the moment and both my little daughter (8) and my older daughter (18) are down with it. Our daughter has been in a slightly better place emotionally this week. We disconnected her internet between 12am and 7pm last week and I think she has been getting more sleep as a result. Unfortunatly, she now has the flu so we'll be back to square one when she recovers. She hasn't been eating properly either so has lost a lot of weight. She assures me that she isn't deliberately losing weight but I'm wondering if it is just another symptom of her current emotional state. I'm hoping that she will see how her unhealthy choices have contributed to this bout of flu and will start to make some positive changes. Regardless of this, I will be taking her to the dr this coming week and getting things checked out.... Using this flu as the excuse to do so. With her being so closed off it is hard to know what is going on in her head and how best to help her. ... View more

She rarely leaves the house other than the occasional trip to the shops on her own. She is a very introverted person naturally and has no face to face interaction with people outside of our immediate family and even that is minimal. She doesn't seem to have any sense of direction and being a perfectionist, the university experience was a real blow to her confidence as in her schooling she was a straight A student. ... View more