Addiction & Recovery

Stop focusing on vaping, it's a coping mechanism and until she learns better ones, she needs it, whatever it is. It is highly unlikely to contribute to peptic or duodenal ulcers.

Ask her why she thinks she has an ulcer. Overwhelming stress can indeed help them to form, but generally they're due to h. pylori bacteria. Listen to the symptoms and run them by your family doctor.

You don't like her vaping, you don't have to. You do need to accept it as an adult decision, whether or not you think it's a poor one.

Right now, what she needs isn't criticism, she needs people who will listen without trying to fix her life. In my own experience, most people will tell you exactly what is wrong if you're willing to wait for it and listen with your mouth shut. Silence draws people out a lot more efficiently than questions do, and criticism shuts them right down. This is an old, battle scarred RN talking.

She came home for a reason. Give her some breathing room until she is ready to talk about it.

I worry more about kids who aren't depressed. They're more likely to be the ones out there taking really stupid chances.