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Aren't the teen years fun 
....Yeah, looking back I felt like my daughter was an Alien. I just could never figure her out. Just when I thought I was starting to understand her, it would all fall apart again.My son on the other hand who is now 20 was a saint....
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....Yeah, looking back I felt like my daughter was an Alien. I just could never figure her out. Just when I thought I was starting to understand her, it would all fall apart again.
My son on the other hand who is now 20 was a saint....
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Zoloft and other anti depressants need to be taken consistently to work properly and can be very dangerous if not. I am glad you took that into your own hands and make sure she gets what she needs each day. (and maybe remind her, that just like high school, it won't be for forever).
As for the money, I agree with everyone else. I never got paid to do chores around the house. By 17, I had already held a job for two years working 20+ hours a week, went to school and had a 4.0 gpa, and came home on my off hours and after school before work to care for my mom who had leukemia. She needs to be prepared for the real world and nothing is free or handed to you in it, sad to say.
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I really thought about taking her bed out back and lighting it on fire. But then I thought that it might lead to me being put in the psych ward and put on meds! :: So I decided to talk with her psychiatrist instead.
Since the psychiatrist appointment, she's been taking her meds like she's supposed to. Her behavior is 100% better (pretty much immediately) and she's done everything I've told her to or asked her to without any argument or procrastination. When she takes her medicine correctly, she's a completely different person (for the better)!
She and her sister (my daughter who just graduated from college) took the lifeguard classes over this past weekend and they are both now certified life guards. happyfaceComment
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I am glad that she is doing better! My fear about giving her the meds each day, would be that when I wasn't there to give them to her she would stop. I hope I am wrong about that. I know I get so irritable when my depression is bad and am not a nice person to be around. So although I am on the other side of it, I think I understand what you are dealing with. I totally agree with not babying her. She will soon be an adult and needs to learn to deal with her illness (because that is what it is) on her own.Comment
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That's why I was trying to make her take responsibility of taking her medicine without me administering it. She's planning to go off to college in a year. I certainly can't follow her to college and give her her meds each day. I was trying to get her to get in the habit of taking them on her own. Hopefully after a couple of months of me administering them to her and her willingly taking them as directed, she will be able to take on the responsibility of administering them to herself.Comment
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Well, lookie there...
My daughter just came downstairs with her bags packed to spend the night with her friend and came to me with her pill box and asked for her medicine for tonight and tomorrow morning. She's getting better with this.Comment
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She does much better with rewards for good behavior rather than threats or punishment for bad behavior. Which, honestly, at age 17, having to pat her on the back for doing anything seems absurd to me. But she does respond well to it. However, if you look at it, as adults, we tend to work harder if we know we are close to getting a raise, change jobs/fields for higher income, put more effort in ourselves, house, and vehicles if others make nice comments about how we or they look. So, technically, us adults have better behaviors and do the things we are supposed to do with a bit more effort when we are getting patted on the back as well.Comment
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