An update

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For those of you who showed support and concern, and for those of you who have taken the time to e-mail or pm and ask, I thought I would give you an update on my daughter. She has been interviewed, evaluated and accepted into an outpatient program. She told the counselor that she would like to do this without having to be on medication, if at all possible. She wants to learn to recognize the signs that drove her to the point of hopeless desperation. She also wants to learn ways to cope with her depression, anger , and any other demons she may battle, constructively, and with the aid of chemicals. She has been assured that the program she is enrolled in will help her with all those things. She has gone back to work. Her boss has been quite understanding,and is trying to ease her back into the schedule so that she is not overwhelmed. She, on the other hand, is ready to take on 3 days of double shifts, and get back on her feet. She will go back to school in August and continue her last 7 weeks of schooling, then another 8 weeks of internship, to become a dental assistant. She has taken herself out of a couple of situations that she does not need to be in at this point in her life. And, while she will not desert a friend in need, she will not allow his problems to overrule her own. The things she went through while she was in the hospital scared her, and were painful enough that she has stopped drinking, and will not even take a Tylenol for a headache, for fear of doing more damage to her liver. I believe she is on her way to becoming my beautiful, giving, caring, life is good let's celebrate it by being big goofballs, daughter again. I would like to thank each and every one of you for your concern, and your support over the past 4 or 5 weeks. My faith in humanity has been restored by my mylot friends and by some I don't even know.