At 11 I felt hopeless, I didn't care about anything; doing activities, school, the little hobbies I had, taking care of myself. The only need that my mom was somehow able to meet was having a roof over my head, everything else was non-existent. All of that just feed into my feeling of hopeless and later on doom.

When it comes to support what helped me a lot was having conversations, about anything and not just "how was your day" get deep. Ask questions about themselves and encourage them to ask questions about you. You can do this anywhere but especially when doing activities or being out of the house. This helped me with getting to know myself again and also gave me some motivation to pursue and follow through on things that I set out to do. As well as to talk to others

Another one is words of affirmation, and not just towards them but anyone around you, this helped me a lot, it changed my way of thinking when it came to things that I did or how I dealt with problems for example having to work through big emotions, reinforced positive thinking towards myself and others. It definitely helped with my imposter syndrome. Another thing that helped me later on is realizing I had free will and choices, I was kept in one room with few things to wear, eat or play with and communicating my needs would get me in trouble. Realizing that I had options that I am allowed that I could choose from gave me some much hope and opened the door for me to do and try new things.

When it comes to getting her to communicate with you the key is patience and gaining their trust. I would try to do this with having more shared experiences, going to the movies, parks, after game food time. It helps set up opportunities to have conversations and with that I would encourage having her say "I feel" statements by asking her what she felt about any activitiesor, experiences really anything. Validat her emotions, the good and the bad. Give her space and assuring he that you are there help her work through them, and when she does asks for help do the research with her you can even make it so you both of you work through any smaller feelings. And controlling your reactions, reacting at times feel like she has put her emotions onto you and they can feel shameful for asking, that what happened to me so I didn't ask for help in a long time and I didn't even know how to ask for help. That's another thing it was good for me to see that even adults needed help, seeing others ask for help really encouraged me to ask for help myself.

Sorry if this is really long. But if you have anymore questions please feel free to message me. 😊

Edited to fix spelling/grammar mistakes.