I do not know if this the correct spot to ask for comments...today being the first time I have seen this website. I am not even sure questions such as I have are even discussed openly here. Obviously doctors (and others) do not prescribe therapy etc in this venue....but I am obliged to at least pose my question.
I am perplexed by an almost complete change in personalty of my 36 year old daughter. She has gone from a mother of two girls who spent too much on them etc etc to someone who is on the verge of breaking up her marriage (to a good man)..to hanging out with what we consider to be undesirable moral types (including some jerk of a man) ....to squandering large sums of money and not responsing to attempts to talk to her abaout what is going on. Her mother has tried and tried and even goes so far as to say "i don't know her anymore."
Needless to say we are all at wit's end........we wonder about mental illness of some sort....we cannot think of any other rational reasons for such a change in a person. We also wonder if gambling and/or drug usage coculd be involved.
We are starting to consider a "family intervention" and even a so-called "health warrant". We feel she needs some kind of help for sure.
Does anyone have any comments?? We are getting desperate. We just do not understand.
Thank you all for reading this and ANY response would be most welcome.
Dodger
I am perplexed by an almost complete change in personalty of my 36 year old daughter. She has gone from a mother of two girls who spent too much on them etc etc to someone who is on the verge of breaking up her marriage (to a good man)..to hanging out with what we consider to be undesirable moral types (including some jerk of a man) ....to squandering large sums of money and not responsing to attempts to talk to her abaout what is going on. Her mother has tried and tried and even goes so far as to say "i don't know her anymore."
Needless to say we are all at wit's end........we wonder about mental illness of some sort....we cannot think of any other rational reasons for such a change in a person. We also wonder if gambling and/or drug usage coculd be involved.
We are starting to consider a "family intervention" and even a so-called "health warrant". We feel she needs some kind of help for sure.
Does anyone have any comments?? We are getting desperate. We just do not understand.
Thank you all for reading this and ANY response would be most welcome.
Dodger