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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about school clubs, OP?  My DCs love the school offerings.  They are in the strings orchestra, science club, play on sports teams.  There must be some club that would appeal to DD.  Look on the website to see what they have and talk to DD about joining one of the clubs for next year.  Also, if she likes science, look for outside programs that focus on STEM.  There is still a deficit of females in the STEM professions and there are efforts to increase girls' interest in STEM.  [/quote]
She was in student government as a freshman and this year she was in FBLA. [b]she feels uncomfortable around people so she doesn't really go to meetings.[/b] She said that she wants to get a summer job this year[/quote]

Her and 90% of the rest of the human race. Kids -- even kids without disabilities -- feel this way. They learn to get over it by getting over it.

I would tell her that she has to pick a club or an art class or some activity and go to it. It doesn't have to be at school. It can be a teen bookclub at the public library or an art class at a community center. She has to get out, though. I also wouldn't let her do student government and nothing else. That is a highly social, clique oriented kind of thing that isn't good for a kid that already feels bad about herself.

She probably should join an exercise club that she can do, as well.  There has to be a water  Zumba class or something that she can participate in. She won't meet a lot of other teens there, but the exercise will help her feel less depressed.

She may need an SSRI. She definitely needs more therapy. She needs to go to therapy and keep going until it works. You need to sit down with her therapist and ask what are some things that DD should be doing right now to make herself feel better. Ask the therapist to assign homework and make sure DD does the therapy homework.

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