To: John Robertson
INTERVENE RIGHT NOW!!!!
What's more important, missing some college, or her life??? Get her out of there, and into a place that can treat her for this specific condition. You should be able to find one either locally or regionally that has a proven track record with helping young adults this problem.
This is an extremely complex condition, and it requires extensive behavior modification to treat it successfully.
There is no real "cure", because it's a mental health issue (with significant physical health impacts), there's just treatment.
The school, no matter how well intentioned simply will not have the resources to help her effectively. As reluctant as you may be to do that (for whatever reason), she needs professional help, or this will kill her!!! Can you live with that? Of course not.
She can always get back into college when she's healthy. God bless you and your family.
To: conservativeharleyguy
imho, there's plenty of chance you are quite right.
However, to knee jerk yank her out of school could be enormously counter productive and needs to be handled step by step with great thoughtfulness, care, sensitivity and dialogue. Then there's the legal issues of an adult child etc.
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12/17/2004 10:18:21 AM PST by
Quix
(5having a form of godliness but denying its power. I TIM 3:5)
To: conservativeharleyguy
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