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Thanks everyone. I am sort of moving through some stages of grief, I guess. I feel sad for my DD, who is an amazing person. I feel worried about the road ahead. I feel some relief that we are moving forward.

I have high hopes for CBT. DD is a very teachable kid (duh, I guess) and she is also a very motivated kid. She wants this to get better.

Ultra, her motivation is a great asset. The challenge will be hers; if you help her own it and work on mastering it, she'll get there.

We have seen great progress through CBT and related strategies.

DeeDee

Hi ultramarina,

Has your DD read "Girls Think of Everything"?

http://www.amazon.com/Girls-Think-Everything-Ingenious-Inventions/dp/0395937442

My DD has recently become interested in history (they taught ZERO hours this year but we got her engaged in Feb. with home reading and a book review activity at the public library).

She loves Abigail Adams and Eleanor Roosevelt especially, and we went to the Glenn Curtiss Museum in Hammondsport NY where she saw all the exhibits about women in early flight.

Also I just checked a book out of the library called "The Curse of the Good Girl" by Rachael Simmons. I haven't read it yet but am intrigued by the idea of the mixed messages society (including parents, myself included) inadvertently send to girls about how they should behave vs. messages about them reaching their potential.

Best wishes, bzylzy

This blog post showed up today called "fifteen things you should give up to be happy". It sounds like its based in what I understand CBT to be, which is retraining the stories your mind tells yourself, I guess not really putting a positive spin in it but arguing against a negative spin. Well, here's the blog post. It's no magic wand, just a friendly little reminder.

http://www.purposefairy.com/3308/15-things-you-should-give-up-in-order-to-be-happy/

*ha ha ha ha*

I don't know why I am laughing exactly, but in some strange way I do find this funny. I just got home from a year-end conference with DD's teacher, who says that after studying DD all year and trying to figure her out, her opinion is that the issue is inattentive ADHD--although she also said that her "issue" is also that she is a highly gifted girl who marches to her own drummer.

Obviously not a professional diagnosis, but this is a teacher with numerous years of experience teaching in a gifted magnet, so. I've vaguely considered ADHD for her, but she's always done so well in school that it's seemed like it couldn't be right. I guess it's time to take more than a cursory glance?

She says that she does note some anxiety but was surprised by the anxiety dx. She has been in contact with the school social worker about keeping DD on the radar next year, which I am in favor of.