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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thanks for all the advice.

My daughter started showing signs of anxiety and depression about five years ago and began seeing the therapist then. We thought it was mostly school related at the time, which it may have been. She saw the therapist for two years. Switching schools seemed to help the most.

She started back with her therapist over a year ago for depression. That's when she told me she had been having intrusive thoughts of self-harm/suicide for years. She said that the thoughts were really annoying -- scary at times --  but that she would never act on them.

She's never taken any medication.

Now, the thoughts are more frequent and she doesn't seem as confident that she wouldn't act on them. So I am focused on keeping her safe until I can find a psychiatrist to hopefully help her.

I don't feel that she's in imminent danger, so I don't think we need to hospitalize...and hope it never comes to that. But I do think I need to find someone as soon as possible, preferably someone who gets her depression. It seems cyclical in nature -  similar to bipolar without the mania - because there are times when she seems normal and hopeful about the future, and other times when she feels hopeless. When I ask her if there are any triggers, she says it's random.

I made some calls to a few recommendations, and hope to have something in place by tomorrow. If anyone else has any names they could refer me to, or any advice in general, I would be so appreciative.

10:25, would you mind posting the name of your psychiatrist?

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