Just looking for some guidance and advice please. My usually happy bright 17 year old daughter has just started her second year at college - she did brilliantly in her GCSES without pressure from us she was completely motivated and then got into our college to study. Her choices for alevel are hard and I did try to persuade her to go for it but perhaps consider an easier one alongside the other 2. By December last year she was a different child - we knew that she was hating it so spoke to college as her attendance was poor and she also fell into a bad crowd so drugs became involved. Her reasoning for this was because it helped her cope. Mentally nothing has helped - college have been accommodating allowing her to switch a subject but everyday is a fight to get her in. She is upset and I feel beating herself up for making the wrong a level choices and now feels she’s not good enough and has let herself down - the ketamine and weed is still an issue but we are receiving support for that for her individually and as a family but her headspace isn’t coping with college - she has an amazing bunch of good friends and there are definitely no issues with that it’s just the couple of bad new friends and the academic side causing issues . I want her to be happy but scared if she drops out especially in such a poor frame of mind and perhaps not making sensible choices she’ll later blame me for not making her stick with it - my question is has anyone else’s child left and if so what did they do? She’s 18 in a couple of months but absolutely lost and I hate to see her wasting her potential so would appreciate any feedback from anyone who has been in a similar situation