If that is my last mistake then I will be ok.

I was talking to my seventeen year old daughter there......

No mistake about that.

I don't know what to tell her.
How much truth can a seventeen year old stand.
I am 55 and am having a hard enough time with it.

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How much truth can a seventeen year old stand.

My first guess would be all of it, you are fairly grown up then. It might even be good to have a real problem even if it is a hard problem to get a perspective on the immaterial group status fancies. If he or she is not ready for hard questions and responsibilities he or she will be fairly soon.

But how much of it is not truthfull facts but someones feelings about giving up? Succeding in getting that across could hurt a lot.