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Old Mar 12, 2022, 11:55 AM
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My daughter (high school freshman) seems to be struggling. She is a very sensitive person who processes emotion at a very deep level. She gives people 100% and pours everything she has into people. This tends to make her a target in some respects as she is not able to just "roll things off her back" when people do mean things that break the bond of trust. she experiences disappointment and sadness on a deeper level than most people, I think. She's been struggling to find and maintain friendships at her school. Every weekend she spends alone in her room watching tv shows on her phone. She is involved with swimming and she's previously been involved in band and other school clubs at my urging to try to get her to build new friendships but it hasn't had very good results. She's started dressing in all black and seems to just, in general, have this sort of dark cloud around her. She may even be struggling with depression to some degree. She goes to a school where fights in the hallways are common. She hears other students being threatened sometimes. She recently offered friendship to a boy who comes from a bad home life and his troubles have unfortunately seeped into her life. Other kids in this boy's life who have issues are angry with my daughter for "getting involved" and lashed out at her this past week by going through the school's anonymous safety reporting site and filed a fake report pretending to be my daughter and claiming that my daughter was assaulted in a bathroom by a group connected to drugs. My daughter was scared, angry and horrified to have to meet with school counselors and administration to "prove her innocence" and make them understand that it was a fake report. the only other 2 friends my daughter has turned their backs on her because "she talked to the disturbed boy" and now my daughter has no one and sits alone at school. For a deeply sensitive person like my daughter this is devastating. I think I'm going to put her in a different school. In other words, change her environment. I honestly think if she were around more people that could be a positive influence on her she'd be better emotionally and mentally. I'm seeking anyone's thoughts or advice on this.
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