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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, you should bring it up with your kid's pediatrician next time you see them (though it is not something I'd seek out an appointment for). Your pediatrician should be giving your kid a screener for depression at teen visits regardless.

OP, I have a similar kid and we are four years into lots of help and intervention and it's still pretty hard - with girls, especially, it can be very, very difficult to unpack what is a cause and what is a symptom of the mental health/behaviors you are seeing.

The other thing I'll mention is that while your daughter may not have started her period yet, she is likely already in the hormonal throes of puberty (starts about a year before menstruation) and experiencing the hormonal fluctuations that will eventually accompany her period. This is another confounding factor in trying to get to root cause for girls in their early teens.

In your shoes, I would spend this time while you are waiting for the evaluation finding a psychiatrist so that you can take action right away once you have information from the evaluation. (There is also the option of doing an anxiety/depression screener with the psychiatrist now and starting meds based on symptoms before the evaluation - I wasn't ready to do this but, in retrospect, it would have been a good idea.) And don't worry about the pills - lots of drugs are available in a liquid or gummy form. [/quote]

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