She Just Plain Needs Prayer

[4Everloved]

Please hold my fifteen year old daughter up to the Lord. Not only does she binge and purge extensively, I have also found out last week that she cuts herself. All of the cuts were hidden in areas that her clothing covers. She has an infection in some of the cuts and is taking anti-biotics prescribed by doctor, along with an anti-depressant and medicine for stomach ulcer.

I need to get her into treatment as soon as possible. The place we have applied to is called Mercy Ministries.

Please pray. Thank you.

 

[Jeshu]

Oh I feel for you and for your daughter - still so young - and already in the thick of it. emotional pain can be so draining and overwhelming.

Please love your girl a lot and share (don't force it down her throat though!) your pain , (past)confusions and mental difficulties with her any time you can - as sharing pain can half the negative effects - or at least help understand the inner turmoil a bit better.

Be prepared to be neglected, shunned or even hated by your child as this often happens at this age especially if she has already been cutting (in difficulty) secretly for some time.

I will certainly remember you and your daughter plight in my prayer - I have already brought you before His throne.

That His peace and wisdom may be with you.

Gerry

 

[Soulwings]

It sounds like what happened to me - from the daughter's perspective, not the parent's.

I will be praying for you, and her.

My advice to you is to try and not be overbearing, try to share if she looks like she wants you to share your own struggles (bc at that age and at that time and going through those things - loneliness is bound to occur, did for me), and love love love.

Be careful in sending her to MM. They are NOT an ED-specializing place, and if she needs IP (in-patient, as in hospital setting/medically unstable), they don't provide that there either. It's more of a residential type place (halfway house) for many young women who are going through about 234987 different kinds of things. They do provide good care, but... they are not simply an ED facility, and that is where my gut instinct would have me tell you to send her. But... money is an issue, always, for everyone, as far as treatment goes (why it has to be so expensive, I don't know). So if it's there or nowhere, MM definitely.

Please be careful. With her, and with yourself. It must be a time of great stress for you both. And if either you or she needs to talk with someone who has been there done that - I am available. My parents found out I cut 6 months after I started, hid it from them for awhile after that too, developed an ED when I was 17, went through treatment when I was 18.

Also, about the meds... please be with her to make sure that she is eating something with the meds and not purging it, bc otherwise they won't be able to be absorbed. I am sure you knew that already, but I had to put it out there. 45 minutes to an hour before everything is fully digested.

Prayers with you. Hang tight.

 

[DoubtingThomas29]

Thanks for the advice soul wings, that sounds pretty helpful.

 

[Alaskamomma]

I shall be praying for her and for you. This is a tough time. I was about her age when I began to cut. I carried the cutting into my adult years and then it turned into burning. So I can relate to what she is going through. But since I have been on meds I haven't done it all and it has been two years. So, there is hope for her.

Just remember to keep surrundering her to the Lord every day. He will carry what you can't. (((4ever)))

 

[berry2000]

Oh i am so praying. I know you have shared quite a lot about your daughter in the past. So I will continue lift her and you up. I agree that the best thing is for her to feel your unconditional love and support...not trying to police the behaviors as hard and as scary as that is.

 

[jynx]

i will be praying for you both. ((((((4everloved)))))))i'm not online much right now, Aaron's stuff is taking up alot of my extra time Soulwings advice is good...i don't think i could expand on it anymore.

 

[4Everloved]

thanks everybody

 

[angelkiss]

Many prayers goin up!
s and es!!

 

[jynx]

How are you and daughter doing this weekend 4everloved?


**big hugs***

 

[Alive again]

home and praying and for dear little Aaron and others here as well.

 

[4Everloved]

feel exhausted and close to a nervous breakdown

 

[Alaskamomma]

feel exhausted and close to a nervous breakdown

Lord,

I bring 4Ever to your Heavenly Hands. Abba Father, please surround your handmaiden and comfort her heart, soul, mind and body. Lord, surround her with Your angels and may they stand as a hedge of protection around her home and loved ones. I would ask that you would raise her up and overflow her with Your strength, courage and hope. You see her wounds that are aching right now. God in heaven, pour out Your healing salve upon her. I thank you for this precious woman. I thank you for the inspiration she brings to this place. I thank you for the testimony she bears in Your name.

Be with her now, Abba. I pray this for her and her family right now in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. AMEN.

 

[Alive again]

Adding to Alaskamomma's beautiful prayer!