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[quote=Anonymous]Just remember, *depression lies*, and it usually speaks louder than any other voices, including yours. It lies, and tells her all sorts of ridiculous nonsense: that the people who love her would be better off without her, that she's a terrible person, that nobody can understand how she feels.

Your daughter isn't lying to you, the depression is.

But just because she can't hear or feel all the love and support you're giving her doesn't mean you're doing it wrong, or not doing enough. You can't love someone out of depression, but you can't stop trying.

Sometimes, though, you can build a scaffold around them and protect them as they heal. Right now, that scaffolding is made of medication and therapy, and, it sounds like, inpatient care.

And you absolutely need your own scaffold, in the form of therapy—or at least a support group, which is more likely to be free. Check the NAMI website for groups near you (https://nami.org/Find-Your-Local-NAMI/Affiliate/Programs?classkey=a1x36000003TN9LAAW).

There's lots of good information on that site about how to care for yourself as you help a loved one through recovery. Once you've got her to a safe place, this is the priority. Put your own oxygen mask on first!

The people I know who have come out of the fog, however tentatively, say that it helps to hold on to that mantra: depression lies. Hopefully it will help you, too, as you try to understand what's happening inside your daughter's mind.[/quote]

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