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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am so sorry that you are all going through this.

I believe you love your children dearly, and are doing all you can to help them.

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I'm another BTDT parent... the above is true. You do the best you can to deal it every day. You make the best choices you can make with the information you have.  That is all you can do.

For my family, it involved residential treatment (2 places) then a therapist who helped us bring our kid home and coached our parenting.  We parents took a close look at ourselves, changed our parenting and our family dynamic and here we are five years later with a "happy" functional family. Our depressed kid is doing well in college and is happy, has friends and is hopeful about the future.  It was a very long road, and it took me years to feel like an ok mom.  I am still triggered when I can sense my kid is going through a rough patch but the difference is that now I know what to look for, kid knows how to ask for help, and we have a team of providers we have worked with who can be resources again.  So it does get better and you do grow as a parent and get more skills.  The best choice we made was to get serious help early on - after a few months of SI.  It was Covid and we couldn't access resources locally in person, so we sent our kid away to get help. Like PP we spent significant money on it.  Because DH had mental illness in his family we were willing to do whatever it took to get our kid help.  I'm glad we didn't take a wait and see approach, but having money made action possible.

After my experience, I no longer have any judgement for families who are going through this. It could honestly happen to anyone. I sincerely hope things work out for your child and your family OP. Stay the course.
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