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Follow-up to previous post is that I wanted to say a good psychiatrist will be willing to sit down with you or to get in writing a history about your daughter's overall health and mental health especially.  If not a formal questionnaire then at least seeking input on how she is relating to you her parents, to siblings, to peers, to school, to any particular pressures, changes in behavior during the year etc.  How exercise might impact as is she doing better when on a sports team or out and more physically active in the summer?
Also it would help if both you and DH could provide as much information on any family members who have had mental health issues as sometimes there can be a definite predisposition as one might have to a cancer or heart condition.  In our case DD had the predisposition on DH's side for severe anxidty and on my side for a particular kind of cancer and has had to deal with both as a young adult.  Very, very hard to see someone who did nothing wrong  deal with the family gene pool in two ways.  But again as we got the best and most comprehensive treatment for her for the cancer, she was the one when she came to DC who actually changed psychiatrists - why because at a certain point she knew she could get whatever meds she might ask for, but felt she needed someone more attuned to overall health for one who would marry and have a family.  Your DD is not at that point so you must choose the psychologist  and therapist who is most able to meet her needs.  A therapist who would not take such thoughts seriously is one to be questioned very seriously why not and also to have no recommendations for a psychiatrist at all leaves a lot to question???[/quote]

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