My Daughter is Crashing and Burning

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Although they've done their best for her, Shauna and her husband's adopted daughter cannot overcome her mental health problems. Searching for advice? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for downloading my call of the day podcast. You too can participate in my live radio program
0:06.8	heard weekdays from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM. Triumph 11. Shawna, welcome to the program.
0:15.1	Thank you, Dr. Laura. I really appreciate your time today. Thank you. I am 56 and I, my husband and I adopted a young baby from birth.
0:29.6	She's 23 now and early on we noticed that there was just some things that were off. So we got her resources pretty quickly.
0:41.1	And I'm sorry.
0:42.6	What do you mean some things were off?
0:44.6	What does that mean?
0:46.6	We just noticed that her fine motor skills were really behind in school.
0:55.6	She was having a lot of crying spells, temper tantrums that were kind of out of the norm.
1:01.7	And we just wanted to get an idea of what we were looking at.
1:04.8	The school said she was a little bit behind in things and having difficulty with socialization.
1:09.9	But, you know, I mean, they're young.
1:11.2	And so there's going to be, you know, a range of things, but we just wanted to make sure
1:16.2	that we knew what we were looking at. They said that she, you know, should have, they said
1:24.6	that she's probably on the spectrum, high functioning, and that occupational
1:31.2	therapy would be good for her.
1:32.7	So we started with occupational therapy, and as her life went on, she has struggled
1:38.7	her whole entire life with emotional regulation, with just being able to really understand social stuff.
1:48.0	And we, she was diagnosed with ADHD, probably in third grade, and then started really acting out,
1:58.0	having bad behavior in school. And so we decided to do kind of half and half family therapy.
2:05.6	We had a therapist that just kind of helped support my husband and I so we could be the best we could be as a couple parents and for her.
2:14.6	And then when she was in our teens, the behavior was so bad at home that she was
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