How do you get a child who is living independently to get the help she needs?

**Admin** Wed Aug 03, 2011 8:30 pm

How do you get a child who is living independently to get the help she needs? -Assurance and honesty are your best weapons. And a little bit of pushing.

Q: My 22-year-old daughter is graduating from college, but has shown signs of mild depression for several years. I convinced her to visit her school's counseling center, where she was told she should continue seeing a therapist, but she felt the experience was too traumatic to continue. She is an intensely private person who has never been able to talk about her feelings. I have managed to "enable" her to at least keep up a fairly normal life by talking to her for hours on the phone and talking her through her occasional panic/anxiety attacks. I just don't know if there is anything else I can do, and I am afraid that entering into adult life will put her over the edge. How do you get your child who is living independently to get the help she needs?

Answer given by Harold S. Koplewicz, MD (President, Child Mind Institute) here:- Child Mind Institute

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