My daughter is 26 years old. I have posted a couple of times several years ago. Once when she was in senior school and seemed to have no friends and once when she dropped out of university after a very short time. To cut a long story short she went to university came top in her year and has an amazing job which she loves. She has been on anti depressants since year one of uni & took an overdose in year three. It was a minor overdose if there can ever be called such a thing and she went back to uni (with permission of her psychiatrist) and finished just before covid. As far as I was concerned after this she had ‘normal’ ups and downs. During covid I was I’ll with cancer (but am now fine) and my husband was diagnosed with Parkinson’s. As a result he has semi retired and we decided to travel and do the things we wanted to do while we can. This time last year, while we were 4 days into our holiday our daughter took a serious overdose. She was on a ventilator & the. In a psych hospital for 4 weeks. This was a private hospital paired for by her company. She had ECT which didn’t work but seemed to be happier anyway. She came home seemed ok but took another overdose. Her psychiatrist then said she needed more support than he could give her & she went under the NHS. They have been wonderful but she has still had no talking therapy yet and last week she took another overdose. I was told the hospital would keep her in and after 4 hours with her at A&E they sent me home. I got a call at 9pm from her to say she could come home. Yesterday, her caseworker was coming to see her so my daughter wanted me to go out (which I did). The caseworker came round with several people including one Dr when I got home I was told that they were getting a section order which had already been signed by two people but my daughter had agreed to go in voluntarily as they didn’t think she was safe at home.
My daughter wants to die. She doesn’t see the point of life. If you speak to her you would never know. She comes across as cheerful and happy. Only this week-end someone with a young girl told me how happy she would be if her daughter grew up like mine!
what will happen day to day in her NHS psychiatric ward? They didn’t think it was a good idea for me to go in with her as they said it was quite an overwhelming place & she should settle in first. I have only had one jokey message from her & she has switched her phone off. I love her so much and I cannot face the thought of life without her. I know they have taken her in to look at her drugs as well as she is on the top dose on several & they are not helping.
Can she be helped? Will she get better. After everything I have been through over the last few years I keep thinking it can’t get worse but it just keeps on going.
Can anyone give me some helpful advise or has been through anything like this themselves & recovered.