Mental health success stories

[crankytoes]

Currently dealing with 18 year old dd mental health issues. Probably won't be able to sit her a-levels as her exam panic attacks are still too big.
Do people have success stories of young people who struggled and that struggle affected their ability to achieve results needed for the next step turning things around?

Please? I need to hear some positive stories 😞

Yes. Get her pastoral care at school and speak to her GP for NLP or similar.

She is having EMDR and CBT and good school support. It's more that I want to hear good outcome stories as sometimes I go down the catastrophic thinking spiral

This was my DD age 15. We thought GCSEs would be a write off.

We finally decided that medication was the only way. She started with propranolol for anxiety which worked really well and then her psychiatrist decided that fluoxetine would be better as she was depressed as well as anxious.

We only got this by going private I'm afraid ( we had already been on NHS wait list for two years ) and GPs can't prescribe under 18s so we had to see a child psychiatrist.

We held back on medication in the hope that talking therapy would be enough but eventually we realised she needed more help.

The turn around was amazing. She started fluoxetine in the December before GCSEs. She got through her GCSEs fine ( she's not a high flyer but we were really happy with her final results )

She is doing great now , enjoying college and has a weekend job too and although not "cured" as such she is coping well with life. She still has her down days but is better at communicating with us and telling us she needs help.

I wish we had started medicating her sooner but we were very cautious about her being on anti depressants.

My daughter was so anxious and depressed she did well on medication.i didn't think she would be able to cope with university but she did well and despite the odd wobble got a first class degree and was improved enough to move away from home to do a master's which she also passed