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[quote=Anonymous]OP, please listen to your daughter and let her find her way with this. She doesn't sound like she's making this decision lightly. As others have said with medication and therapy maybe one day she will switch back to therapy only but obviously she is still struggling and is ready to try something else.

We have a kid who became seriously chronically ill in jr high. We learned quickly that with this illness we had to honor every symptom/thing our kid told us. Unfortunately the illness causes brain changes and our kid developed a seriously inflamed brain which causes mental illness and we know firsthand how it is so important to listen to and honor our kids in this area of their lives. It's not as if the first thing the therapist or your daughter did was decide to jump into medicine. Ours had to get medicated right off the bat because it had morphed into basically a life or death situation.  You don't want to be at that point!

With your daughter headed off to college, now is a good time to figure out the medication levels. Transitioning to college is a very stressful time despite the excitement.  Better to have her in the best mental head space possible as she heads off. This area is full of college kids who dropped out their first year due to stress and are now living at home getting their mental health in order.

If it helps think of it as encouraging brain health along with coping skills.

I would ask the therapist what sort of therapy strategies they use and ask what sort of tools they work with - usually therapists encourage concrete skill building. Ask if your DD gets "assignments" to work on and if they review them which develops coping skills. Ask for warning signs you should know about to tell if things are heading south and so on.[/quote]

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