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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. I'm back bc my child is causing another crisis. I don't know what to say that would protect her privacy but give enough detail.

Basically, anxiety and bad decisions resulting from anxiety could cost her her nascent career. The anxiety is being treated but it isn't under control. If she kept a level head she would be in a good place in life, but if she loses her job there won't be another professional path for her that she says she would be interested in doing.

Basically, she is on track to do something awesome but is risking everything by freaking out and threatening not to deliver at the last minute. At the same time, she says she has to be interested in what she does and I worry she would sink (back) into serious depression if she had to do something less inherently interesting to her. Obviously, most people don't have dream jobs, and this isn't a reasonable position to take. But there it is. See above. Not reasonable.

She has ADHD and I've seen her try to do work she didn't like. It was like pulling teeth. I don't think she would be able to keep an easier job with her risky behavior, either.

This just hurts. Obviously there isn't much I can do. But it hurts.  [/quote]

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