My daughter is wonderful and has dedicated her life until recently to excelling in school so she can succeed and be a passionate elementary school teacher. She is still (just?) around the top of her class and has one more year of A-levels to go, but has mentioned that she may drop out and work at burger king or some such job the rest of her life, because she can't continue on with things. she is not clinically depressed but due to massive identity/faith crisis she has been stuck for the past 3 years and is not one step further. at age 15 she had a year-long soul-mate relationship with her 1 1/2 year older best friend who has borderline personality disorder. this caused identity problems because until then she always knew who she was - strong, passionate catholic faith through philisophical discussions, etc. with me while growing up. now she thinks she's going to hell but feels there is absolutely no possibility of change or choosing one way of life over the other or trying to have her cake and eat it too - accepting a middle ground of starting from acceptance of imperfectionl for the past 3 years she has completely cut herself off from human interaction at all except for the most superficial, absolutely necessary daily interaction. she was in crap therapy for over a year at children's mental health and on antidepressants for a year, and not one single ounce of good it did her. now will not try any therapy again,. i am going to make another appointment with her school and explain that the situation is getting critical because there is so much to do. i need to do my back years of income tax returns that i never got around to since living in the UK, so that I can figure out how to fill out the FAFSA forms, and I need to send her SAT scores to 4 more unis, and decide which ones to apply to. i need to register her for the sat subject tests, which she had planned on since her favorite uni was williams. i need to figure out a couple of safety schools that will let ANYbody in so that they don't care that she has no interest anymore.
she cares VERY VERY mucg down deep, but it is all broken dreams as far as she is concerned and she just can't face any of it. she just can't do ANYTHING for herself anymore. ESPECIALLY when the FUTURE smacks her in the face. a gigantic black wall just slams down in front of her.
are there any unis that i could have a discussion with who might take her on the strength of her past awesomeness?
11 A*s at GCSE level
so far looks like she was heading for same at A level but her AS level exams last month she started having problems due to all the black wall looming up. so who knows what the next year will bring. .... never mind..... i suppose she will just have to get some sort of crap job and maybe i can force her into more useless therapy... maybe some day she'll come out of it. but after 3 years i am having difficulty coping myself!
sorry for whining and moaning!
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should or CAN I apply to colleges FOR my daughter - time is running out and she has given up on life
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