Please help. This may be the wrong forum, but my stepdaughter is dealing with a lot of emotional issues and desperately needs a counselor. She is 21. Her sister is going off to college. Her mother is moving out of the country. She just had a major breakup with an longtime boyfriend. She lives with her dad mostly. She just started back on her ADD meds after meeting with her doc. She lost about 20 pounds after the breakup and is now skin and bones. The add meds are refocusing her and helping. And her doc also put her on Lexipro which is not helping much yet.

She gets so depressed, lonely and tired and just cries for hours. She needs someone desperaately.

Does anyone know of a good therapist in the San Antonio, San Marcos, Seguin area???? The right therapist can make all the difference and the wrong one can make no difference at all.

I think she has been depressed for a long time and has used shopping and boyfriend to medicate pain.

Shelly, I can't help with your question , but I needed to send *hugs* to all of you, especially your step-daughter
All the best of luck finding help for her

You might check with the local chapter of CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder). A counselor familiar with ADD would be especially helpful. I hope you can help her get some help. You might also recommend the book Women with Attention Deficit Disorder by Sari Solden. Sometimes knowing you're not alone out there with your responses and problems is helpful.

Take care,
Scattered

Check with your health insurance company. They usually have names of doctors in the area. Then, call a few of them to see what they sound like and what type of patients they usually deal with. It is amazing to see how different many are. Some counsel and prescribe, while others just do one or the other. It may be good to ask her ADD Dr. if they could recommend someone. The ADD meds can also cause depression to get worse. Taking something like Zoloft in addition may help her.

Good Luck. She is lucky to have you helping her.