My daughter suffers with severe depression ND will not take her medication when out of hospital please help?
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I am not sure that this will be of any help (i am only 13) but maybe if you knew what first caused her depression (a death? a divorce?) it could help her but trying to convince her that her children (or any one close to her) are sad because of her depression could make it worse because she will feel guilty.  This is only what I think and may not be true, but I hope it helps you and your family!
694205
she is a controlling psycho in need of some serious medication
1068444
The situation is out of your control. You are an active participant in her sickness, you need professional help.  I would start looking at a residential treatment facility for her.  you also need to talk to a marriage & family, or drug treatment therapist about it.  You need to get well just as she does. Alcoholism controls the family, not just the alcoholic.
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Be there to support her. She will have good days and bad days. Also try to hook her up with a support group that she can contact. I wish her the best of luck. Many people work for years and years with it. My sister has had it for over 10 years and she is an RN.
585299
This kid has gone through a lot with her mother in jail and she has abandonment issues. She is rejecting you before you reject her. she should be seeing a child psychologist. Medication will not be sufficient.
661291
She sounds very tired, scared and very frustrated. Right now what she probably needs is a FRIEND, someone to lean on. So I would advise for you to go and accidently bump into her. Show to her that you still care and want to help her, but don't look like you pity her or she will become worse. Try and get her to relax, unwind because all.\nI think it would help if you did research on depression.
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I suggest you get her depression treated and under control. She isn't taking care of herself because of the depression.\n\nGet her to talk to her physician about her depression. Get her on medications. Her physician can get her a phychiatric referral.\n\nIf you don't trust she will follow through with that, call her doctor .. he may not be able to talk to you about  her, but you can talk to him about your concerns for her and about her non compliance to taking care of herself. She may be angry at you for doing that, but unless her depression is treated, she will continue to not take care of herself and get sicker.
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Hi,\nI'm so sorry that you even have to ask this question and I can't imagine what you are going through.\n\nI would like to help as much as I can.  I put a link below that is an article written FOR CHILDREN about cystic fibrosis.  Even if your daughter can't read it, maybe you can read it and get some ideas of how to explain her illness to her in ways that she will understand.\n\nAlso, I don't know what country you are writing from, but I put the link for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.  They have support for parents and people you can talk to about how to deal with your daughter's illness and her questions.\n\nI hope you will think about finding a support group in your area or an on-line support group for parents of children with cystic fibrosis.  If you feel nervous to go to a support group, remember, you don't have to talk about anything when you go, you can just listen.\n\nI hope this helped a little.  Please e-mail me if you would like any more help researching this.\n\nTake care of yourself...
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Hi.. I would suggest that you go to your family doctor and let them know of your concerns.  There might be something wrong with her or it could be her imagination... I work as a LPN on a psychiatric unit  but we only have adults here and I don't have that much experience dealing with children but I think that the first step for you would be to get her to you family DR ASAP. \nI hope that everything works out for you.
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I'm sorry to hear that! all you can do is try and be there for her and help her deal with her problems. but please take this advice don't let her start taking anti depression pills because they wont help her. my mom suffered a nervous breakdown when my father died and she started taking them and now she is completely addicted to them and is convinced that she cant get by without them and now she is a different person (not for the good).
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Have her talk to her school counselor.  Have her see a therapist.  Or maybe just talk to her and find out whats wrong.  IN any case somebody needs to talk to her calm her down, and help dissolve her fits.  OH you could also try sedatives, or medication.  IS she dangerous when she does this?  I dunno, maybe she just needs a hug and an "I love you, everybody loves you."
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If there is another adult in the home, you need to ask them to get ther the help she needs. There are medications that can help her psychotic symptoms. If she's the only adult in the situation, see if you can get help from someone outside your home that she will listen to. Unfortunately, if she's out of touch with reality in any area of her life then she does not see the need for doctors, medications or getting help, so sometimes you have to get help to make her do what she needs to do. If you don't have any relatives or friends nearby who can help, then consider going to a pastor or teacher. They may at least be able to help you get her some aid.
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Although you can't force her to do anything, I would strongly urge her to seek help.  This is not normal, and if she goes through with it she will hurt a lot more people than just her and her husband.
514128
sorry to hear that I will keep you and your family in my prayers she needs to go to a shelter to get assistance they cant turn her or the kids away and she has to start over and she also has to learn from her consequences there she will be assigned with a counselor/social worker who will help your daughter with the children she probably would get better assistance from the shelter than through a tv show
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end the relationship now while she is in a place that will help her learn to cope with it. you can not let her use her illness and  your relationship as a crutch. im a nurse and a lot of mental illness personalitys tend to manipulate. she will make you stay with her. you are young and need to get on with your life.
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I work at a hospital and our docs prescribe anti-depressants all the time. If your friend had mentioned suicide to you then you can have her committed against her will. Call the police if you think she is in danger. Or check out the bottom of the www.postsecret.com blog, they have a hotline with the answers you need.
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a fever is the way your childs body starts to fight of an infection. If she has had it all day and it is not dropping, take her to the ER. you can try to let her sit in a lukewarm bath, if you live in or near missouri St. louis has a nursing hotline that you can call to ask ??'s. i have called them before and they are really helpful. You may try to call your dr. at home. You do not need to give her anymore meds. It is dangerous to exceed the dosage w/o a doctors order. my peditrician and my son's nuerologist both say to alternate children's tylenol and children's motrin every 3 hours if that doesnt work then they need to be seen. God Bless and good luck. I know its scary to have a sick child, but stay calm and if nothing else, a trip to the ER may be your best bet.