jumpingbean
14-12-08, 21:52
Hello All,
I'm new and releived to have found this place.
My daughter was diagnosed with Generalised Anxiety Disorder when she was 12. She is now 18.
I am finding it very hard to support her properly and feel very inadequate a lot of the time.
I seem to get it wrong all the time, despite trying to be as kind and non-demanding as possible.
I feel like I just keep putting my feet in it with her repeatedly and am not helping her at all. Or not enough.
My own life is not very straightforward either and she is all too aware of that - it is clear to both of us that that fact in itself has been a copntributing factor in her GAD.
Anyway, Hello. Any advice? I've read about GAD but am very short on ideas about practical ways to help her.
She isn't working, finds it exceptionally difficult to leave the house, and sometimes her room.
Thanks for reading,
JB
I'm new and releived to have found this place.
My daughter was diagnosed with Generalised Anxiety Disorder when she was 12. She is now 18.
I am finding it very hard to support her properly and feel very inadequate a lot of the time.
I seem to get it wrong all the time, despite trying to be as kind and non-demanding as possible.
I feel like I just keep putting my feet in it with her repeatedly and am not helping her at all. Or not enough.
My own life is not very straightforward either and she is all too aware of that - it is clear to both of us that that fact in itself has been a copntributing factor in her GAD.
Anyway, Hello. Any advice? I've read about GAD but am very short on ideas about practical ways to help her.
She isn't working, finds it exceptionally difficult to leave the house, and sometimes her room.
Thanks for reading,
JB