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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP again.  Thanks for the suggestions.  I like the idea of walks with a Starbucks bribe...wish me luck.  Regarding asking friends to do things, she always refuses when I suggest she do something with a pal.  I think she feels embarrassed  being the one to ask. I;d been clinging to the fact that I just had to get her through the summer and then she'd perk up at least on her two school days but now that is unlikely.

She pleaded with us to do hybrid and will be so upset when she finds out that will be gone.[/quote]

Daily Starbucks walk works for my soon-to-be fifteen DD.

[b]Second the idea that a therapist might help[/b].  [/quote]

The idea that we should rather put our otherwise healthy kids in therapy/meds instead of figuring out how to safely reopen our schools just boggles the mind.[/quote]
Therapy =/= meds. And I'm the one who suggested therapy, because OP's DD's response seems to be an outlier. This situation is awful for everyone. But when a person becomes so unhappy they refuse to do even small things to feel better, that's depression. You'll notice I started by suggesting that OP help talk her DD through her feelings...but therapy might help if that doesn't work.

Honestly. Everyone goes through setbacks, and since OP didn't mention that Covid has caused their family job loss or worse, OP's kids situation is actually not as bad as what many, many Americans are facing. [b]This is an opportunity to teach kids how to cope with life's inevitable setbacks. Better now than when they are adults.[/b][/quote]

+1 and more. People must have lived charmed lives if they're not preparing their kids to handle adversity when they grow up.[/quote]

What is wrong with some of you posters? You can't possibly believe that a teenager suffering from depression during a pandemic means that parents are not working to teach them how to handle adversity. Grow up and stop with these Duggerisms. Thank you.[/quote]
Wha? No. Some of us are saying the parents might need to consider bringing outside help into the mix. I'm not the immediate PP, but I just tried to offer that it doesn't mean thee is anything "wrong" with the OP's DD, just that she might need a little help learning how to cope with this situation. And, frankly, a lot of adults would benefit from that help too...but they aren't lucky enough to have a parent like OP who is invested in helping their DD.[/quote]

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