She has just admitted that she is feeling really low/sad all the time since she started school. She is in 6th form now and only has one friend - she started secondary school with a good size group friends but for various reasons ended up only with one friend. I blame myself I should have forced her to do more activities after school but she never was interested.
She is doing well academically but her one friend is doing better than her and she is feeling really down about it. I tell her it doesn’t matter how well her friend does - she shouldn’t compare etc...the week end this one friend also has a boyfriend so can’t see dd very often at the week end. The situation is not helped with Covid. The week end she is mainly in her bedroom chilling or studying, with us as a family but otherwise has no life. I try to cheer her up, but I worry I say the wrong thing. I tried not to say too much and listen. It is just so hard to see her down like that. I wish she had more friends. She is off to uni in a couple of years and I’m sure things will be different but how can I help her now ? Thank you for reading