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[quote=Anonymous]That longer post above sounds like valuable information. I would try family therapy where he won’t feel so much like the one with the problem and I’d require him to go and be polite or I’d take his phone and give him a flip phone. Depression sounds like it is making him irritable and making him lose interest in things.

I would also take him now on a college tour to a school that would be a safety school in your mind. Let him see what he is working for. He needs hope. Do you know a current college student who could talk positively to him about how it’s worth working for?

At the same time, I’d start communicating about the other ways to be busy after high school, like a gap year, community college, vocational education, or whatever. Remember that a kid with ADHD has a less mature brain. He might be ready for college later than others. Not every kid goes the traditional four year college route.

My sister died after a bad report card, and in the note she left she said she knew she wouldn’t get into college. This was not true, and there was little college pressure 50 years ago compared to now, but they hear it from other kids.

First, treat the depression, get a drug test just in case, and do family therapy. His siblings need a chance to be heard, too.[/quote]

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