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Parenting teenagers has its ups and downs. Get advice from Mumsnetters here.

Depressed teen and step father

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Disabled · 16/06/2013 21:09

Hello all, this is my first post. I'm at my wits end. I have a 14 year old daughter who has always achieved top in school and people love her she is the perfect child in many ways. She witnessed her father be violent towards me but has never let the domestic violence effect her school work. 6 years ago I divorced and then met my current partner who we have lived with for nearly all this time as we lost our home. In the past 6 months she has started to self harm, she is seeing counsellors and I understand that there won't be a quick fix. I have some disabilities and whilst my new partner is great with us both, he gives us everything we could want, sometimes he feels that he is not appreciated and that she disrespects him in his home, I'm sure she doesn't disrespect him but I feel stuck in the middle and I end up falling put with both of them for them to then become best of friends. They do really love each other but when they have problems hate each other too. I don't know how to progress it's driving me around the bend and also making my disabilities worse as stress kicks my illnesses off. Help???

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wickedorwhat · 17/06/2013 08:18

hello, I think I know where you are coming from.
my dd is also 14 and very bright. she has very low self esteem and I think she is depressed. I am also at my wits end and I am writing this as I wait to take her to the doctors this morning and have kept her off school. I know everyone's situation is different but it has taken me 3 years to do something about this as I just hoped it would go away. she finds it hard to talk to counsellors so this is why the doctors is my last hope. I have racked my brains as to why she feels like this and she is not sure either, all I know is she feels bad enough for it to disrupt everything in her life and ours as a family, she is not badly behaved but it affects school and relationships. I hope your daughter finds peace and good luck x

Disabled · 17/06/2013 09:02

Thank you for your post, my doctor reared her to mental health, she got to a point where we didn't know what she was going through then it all came flooding out, what is so frustrating is that she doesn't seem to want to help herself. I hope you get the Help you both need x Thanks

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