About 3 weeks ago, my normally very cheerful and level headed dd was a bit low and tired. She has a lot going on with school, and at the time had a friendship issue that was worrying her- now resolved. At the end of the week, she gave blood- and felt really dreadful afterwards, faint and sick. She still felt awful the next day. Don't know whether it was the blood donation or some sort of bug, but she was poorly for a couple of days, then seemed to go into a sort of downward spiral. She described how she felt to me after about a week, and it sounded to me like depression- she said she felt detached, and as if she had a black cloud following her that she was worried other people would be infected by, so she wanted to keep away from people.
She carried on going to school, although it was a struggle, and I just tried to take as much pressure off her as possible, making home safe and unchallenging, and trying to be available if she wanted me. Then, on Thursday morning, she woke up her old self again, and has stayed that way.
There is depression in our family, and I was worried that this was the first signs of it in her. If it was, what should she/we do? Or should she/we just put it down to being tired and unwell? Or what?
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Please will somebody read a very long post about my 17 year old dd and advise me please? Possible depression?
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curlew · 26/10/2013 10:35
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