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[quote=Anonymous]She’s missed two weeks of school and sleeps all day? Major bout of depression.

This is a huge red flag. If she can’t put one foot in front of the other and start going through the motions of basic functioning again, getting up and out the door to class. then she probably needs to come home for treatment.

College is a huge step that she may not have been ready for, if it hadn’t been the boyfriend it probably would have been something else.

Explain to her that life wont always linear from here on out. There can be a lot of one step forward and 3 back and failure, but resilience means you have to keep moving and looking for a way up and out of whatever hole you either dug or fell into.

When you essentially stop moving, lying in bed all day for weeks, a reaction not in proportion to the triggering event, then it’s time to take a time out to figure out why obsession is overriding self preservation.

Better to make arrangements to leave in a controlled way, as someone said reach out to the dean of students, request a medical leave of absence and get her home and into treatment.

She may not want to go back, but at least this gives her the option, and hopefully she develops some tools that help her to better whether the inevitable challenges ahead.[/quote]

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