Too many times I have sat with a mom who was grieving about her child. As she would talk, she usually would say something like,"I knew something wasn't right but no one would listen". As a result, she would doubt her judgment, listen to everyone's voice but her own, and continue to struggle with her child.

That sense moms have is called instincts and we are given them for a reason. I have never had a mom tell me she listened to them and they mislead her. I have had hundreds say they didn't trust them and regret it.

I share this to encourage you to pay attention to your gut. Don't let anyone talk you out of this "feeling" you have with your children. You are the expert on your children and no one knows them as well as you. Listen to your heart and trust the nudging when it comes. You will be so grateful you paid attention and your children will be blessed because they had a mom that developed her intuitive hearing.

Always,

Catherine

Hi Catherine, I knew something was wrong with my daughter a long time ago, but I kept thinking the next thing in life would be better and help her be happier, but that never happened and now she is clinically depressed and I don't feel much hope for her future. She does not know how to make herself look presentable so as to attract people to her, she goes with blue streaked hair and ill fitting clothes that just make her look really sloppy and I actually think make people uncomfortable around her.
She is so unhappy she gets angry really easily and cries so easily and it seems like there is so much rage inside of her. She is going to a couselor once a week at her college, they made her sign an agreement to not commit suicide. I think I can see why she would be entertaining those thoughts some times. Not many reach out to her and she is not a big talker , so it is very uncomfortable for her to reach out to others. To make matters worse she is on a floor where everyone else has a roomate but her and and old acquaintence is on her floor who is a simple girl who has a boyfriend and her life seems to be just perfectly great all the time , she is not a girl who has the capacity to understand the state of depression my daughter has, and my daughter has to see this girl with the perfect life everyday. It has caused me to avoid her parents which are long time friends of ours, since they seem to enjoy how perfect there life and daughter are and seem to actually enjoy pitying my daughter. Unknown to there daughter though is a little fact that at the time of her birth her Christian father was having an affair and wanted to leave there mother. It did not happen and so this girl has a blissful life not knowing the reality of what her father put her mother through. Interestin how those people get so much satisfaction at pitying others problems, since they succesfully buried theirs