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[quote=Anonymous]Not sure if this is the right forum, but here goes...

My high school senior DD was an A student for the first two years of high school. During the first half of her junior year, she had a brief illness, like a cold with a fever. After that illness, her personality changed. She got depressed, was unable to concentrate, her grades dropped.

I took her to a therapist, who said she was depressed, but could not figure out why. The therapist saw her a few times, and suggested she might have some physical illness, like PANDAS or Lyme.

I took her to an infectious disease specialist who ruled out most infections, including Lyme, mono, etc. He said she may have had some viral illness that affected her brain, particularly executive functioning.

He suggested getting a neuropsych eval and finding an executive functioning coach.

We didn't do the neurospych (too expensive) but found exec functioning coach, who worked with DD twice, gave her some study tips and said she was fine, was organized, didn't need any more help.

DD is a senior, on a reduced course load and is getting Bs. Will graduate soon.

She got accepted to some so-so, not very competitive colleges. She wants to go to college, but DH and I feel she should take a year off, work and spend more time healing her brain. Depression is gone, and she's back to her cheerful self, but she's dropped all activities (sports, music lessons, hobbies) except socializing with her many friends.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? Could she have ADHD inattentive? Or PANDAS? Or some sort of brain damage due to a viral infection, as the infectious disease guy suspects?

Any advice, feedback, comments, suggestions most appreciated. I'm really not sure where to go from here, what to test her for, if anything, whether or not to send her to college. I don't want her to fail at college, and end up back at home.

TIA.

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