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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 757076" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>Not keeping up with personal hygiene is a warning sign of severe depression, as are changes in weight, staying in bad situations, etc. Your daughter needs help with her mental health. I've been there with this. Sometimes it is just too damned HARD to take a shower, clean your body, wash your hair, let alone clean your house. I've had times where the only thing I've been capable of is taking care of Thomas the cat. Depression, severe, clinical depression, is a bear.</p><p>I've been there. Your daughter doesn't need yelling at. She needs help, desperately. All the love in the world won't help her with this. She needs a psychiatrist skilled in psychopharmacology, and a good therapist. Your job as mom, is get off her case and stay off of it.</p><p>This is something you really can't understand unless you've been there. Please, please, be kind, and BACK OFF! if she needs a hug, offer one. If she needs time to herself, offer it. Stay off her case about her boyfriend so long as he isn't beating her.</p><p></p><p>What food he brings home, and her weight are none of your business at this point. Your daughter is sick, and her behaviors are symptoms of her illness, a mental illness that can, in some cases, be lethal.</p><p></p><p>Sorry to be so harsh, but you wouldn't speak and think the same of a person with a debilitating physical illness or injury that prevented them taking care of themselves, would you?</p><p></p><p>This is no different. Please love your daughter as she is, her neurotransmitters are out of balance and what your are seeing and hearing are symptoms of that.</p><p></p><p>Just as being cold, gaining weight, dry skin, and brain fog, can be symptoms of one's thyroid hormones being out of balance.</p><p></p><p>For the thyroid, we can replace the hormones that are not being secreted at the correct levels.</p><p></p><p>For severe clinical depression, we give medicines that help balance the neurotransmitters, and therapies that help the person re-learn how to live with their condition and how to learn to deal with the unbalanced emotions and feelings caused by their illness.</p><p></p><p>It's no difference.</p><p></p><p>Your daughter isn't unwilling, she's unable right now. Please try to understand. It really can be that hard.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 757076, member: 1963"] Not keeping up with personal hygiene is a warning sign of severe depression, as are changes in weight, staying in bad situations, etc. Your daughter needs help with her mental health. I've been there with this. Sometimes it is just too damned HARD to take a shower, clean your body, wash your hair, let alone clean your house. I've had times where the only thing I've been capable of is taking care of Thomas the cat. Depression, severe, clinical depression, is a bear. I've been there. Your daughter doesn't need yelling at. She needs help, desperately. All the love in the world won't help her with this. She needs a psychiatrist skilled in psychopharmacology, and a good therapist. Your job as mom, is get off her case and stay off of it. This is something you really can't understand unless you've been there. Please, please, be kind, and BACK OFF! if she needs a hug, offer one. If she needs time to herself, offer it. Stay off her case about her boyfriend so long as he isn't beating her. What food he brings home, and her weight are none of your business at this point. Your daughter is sick, and her behaviors are symptoms of her illness, a mental illness that can, in some cases, be lethal. Sorry to be so harsh, but you wouldn't speak and think the same of a person with a debilitating physical illness or injury that prevented them taking care of themselves, would you? This is no different. Please love your daughter as she is, her neurotransmitters are out of balance and what your are seeing and hearing are symptoms of that. Just as being cold, gaining weight, dry skin, and brain fog, can be symptoms of one's thyroid hormones being out of balance. For the thyroid, we can replace the hormones that are not being secreted at the correct levels. For severe clinical depression, we give medicines that help balance the neurotransmitters, and therapies that help the person re-learn how to live with their condition and how to learn to deal with the unbalanced emotions and feelings caused by their illness. It's no difference. Your daughter isn't unwilling, she's unable right now. Please try to understand. It really can be that hard. [/QUOTE]
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