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[quote=Anonymous][quote]PP. I’m the OP you know jacksh*t about us. You don’t know that my daughter has struggled with serious depression and anxiety and has been in and out of therapy. You don’t know that her grandmother died three weeks ago. You don’t know that she has spent most of her life with a deployed father. You don’t know that she has moved eight times in ten years. You don’t know that we’re a blue collar family. You don’t know that she’s spending the second half of her summer working. You don’t know that during the school year she helps out in a shelter for homeless families. All you are doing here is displaying your own narrowness and self-righteousness. Your ready assumption that anyone posting here is “privileged” suggests that you yourself could use a little time outside your bubble.

Ah, the usual DCUM post and switch / escalate details when people don’t agree with you tactic.

If your new details are true, OP, I can’t understand why you would be crowdsourcing this question instead of looking after your child’s obviously tenuous mental health.[/quote]

+1  As the parent of a teen boy who stuggles with ADHD/LD/anxiety/depression, I would have consulted with his counselor [b]before[/b] sending him to this 'service trip'.  Homesickness and unhappiness should have been expected, discussed and planned for. If this story is true, OP is negligent in not ensuring her DD and her counselor didn't discuss this ahead of time and identify at what point DD could/should come home.

Next time, OP, why don't you try something like Outward Bound?[/quote]

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