Don’t let depression steal your precious daughter

My daughter is irresponsible. At 23, she is jobless despite having a diploma. She can barely write a cover letter let alone edit her CV. I basically do everything for her, from searching for a job, typing the cover letter, to sending it. I feel as if I’m babying her but I want her to get a job so that I can wash my hands off, knowing that I have done all I could for her.

You do not tell us when your 23-year-old daughter became irresponsible. The basic point here is that there are those whose problem started in childhood and there are those for whom the problem is “new” in the sense that they were previously high or average achievers, but whose performance has gone down in the last few months or years.