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[quote=Anonymous]NP here -

OP I just want to commend you for looking for answers for your daughter and ask you to skip over all of the negative posters who are trying to say this is just a girl being a teenager.

When I was a junior in high school I underwent a similar personality change along with the drop in grades and depression.  There was no trauma, drugs, and I remember just wondering what had happened to me and why.  I was briefly sick around the time that it started but it was January and I figured it was just a cold.  Finally a blood test indicated that it might have been caused by EBV, but we never did get any conclusive answers as to what exactly caused it.  I ended up choosing to defer college and take a gap year and during the first couple years of college I had to struggle some with my expectations of myself and depression but on the whole I feel like I got mostly better by the time I was 20 or 21 and I've been fine since.

One experience of mine to consider with respect to your daughter's situation is that my ambition and drive were never the same afterwards.  I still attended a top university, but I went from being a kid who thought there was nothing that I couldn't do if I just tried hard enough to someone who wanted to stick to things that I knew I could do well and not push myself too hard.  My self confidence took a major beating and it's never recovered.  It's wonderful that your daughter's friends stuck with her through being depressed - that was not my experience, though I was very lucky with my friends in college and I feel like life has turned out very well for me.[/quote]

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