Mental Health and my teenage daughter

A question about : Mental Health and my teenage daughter

Hi all, just looking for some advice here. My DD is 18 in March. She is part way through her second year at college, and is, in the tutor's words, a distinction level student. She was diagnosed with clinical depression 4 years ago, and is treated with antidepressants, and therapy. She is also now under investigation for Chronic Fatigue.
For the last 2.5 months she has not been coping with her college work emotionally, mentally or physically. They are being very supportive, and have offered her reduced hours, pastoral support, and anything else she needs basically to get her to the end of this year. However it begins to look less and less that she will be able to cope, and I am worried for her immediate and long term future. She is certainly not capable of working at the moment - she cannot even ask for something in a shop. The therapy doesn't seem to be helping, tho maybe she'd be even worse without it - at least she is not suicidal.

If she were to finish college due to mental health, would there be any financial support available to her for her immediate future? I have every intention of supporting her into work as soon as she is fit - I am a person with a long term health condition myself and I have always worked - but I feel that this is not going to be an option for the immediate future. Thankyou for reading.

Best answers:

• If she permenantly with draws from the course, she can claim ESA.
  She may be able to claim PIP.
  JSA is an option - if she can agree to some limited jobseekers agreement.
• Many thanks roger black, this gives me a starting point if she does withdraw. I am hoping so much that she won't- she's had so much to cope with and she would see it as a major failure. Thanks again.
• Please tell your daughter not to see withdrawing from her course as failure, it is not a failure. When it happened to me, I was training to be a nurse, and I saw it as a failure at first, but I realised it wasn't a failure, I NEEDED to withdraw because I needed treatment, it was essential.
  Good Luck to you and your daughter.