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[quote=Anonymous]For my kid, a combination of medication, therapy, taking more difficult classes, getting involved in a competitive sport, and getting involved in academic clubs and mentoring of younger kids in those area.   It’s sort of counter but more stress/pressure was actually helpful.  They are a tightly wound person by nature and they were in all these easy classes so spent all that excess mental energy going down internet rabbit holes to bad places and obsessing over social stuff, etc.  once they had actual things to focus on that mattered to them, all that energy had a different place to focus.  I’m a little worried about college but this has been working okay for the past couple of years.  It just shows that the path can be kind of different for different kids, and it’s about finding the things that will allow your kid to feel good about themselves and create a positive identity for themselves.  
Mine did DBT therapy during the worst period.  I liked how it was focused on skills to deal with the negative emotions rather than obsessing over the negative emotions which sometimes happens with talk therapy, I think.   The therapists all stress that you need to validate the bad feelings but if that’s the only validations kid is getting, it can lead them away from recovery, I think.  You need to build spaces for them that are more attractive than the negative space they are in.  Often that means finding a space for them outside their school’s dominant social environment.  [/quote]

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