Refresher: Is Cheryl's Daughter a Lost Cause?

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🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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From my Call of the Day archives; Cheryl has been so focused on dealing with her adult daughter's problems that she's neglecting her three other kids. What should she do? Searching for advice? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:46.8	Cheryl, welcome to the program. Thank you. How are you today? Good. What's up? Good. I have, my husband and I have five children, ages 33 to 21.
1:00.6	The fourth child is the only daughter. August the 7th of 2014, she tried to commit suicide.
1:09.3	And why did she try to do that?
1:13.4	When we got to the hospital at the ER, her regular doctor said this was another of her
1:18.8	attention getters.
1:21.1	But this time she went too far.
1:24.1	Oh, so she had done this before?
1:26.8	No, no, but there's always something.
1:29.9	That's what her brothers say.
1:31.0	It's always something.
1:33.3	When she was a freshman in high school, her best friend's father committed suicide,
1:37.8	and she wasn't that close to the man, but she was very close to the girl,
1:42.9	and things kind of went downhill from there. She had always required a lot the man, but she was very close to the girl. And things kind of went downhill from there.
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