jadeen
20-07-14, 02:18
Hello everyone, I just really need some advice on how I can help my daughter.
Okay, I am a single parent and my 14 yr old daughter has been suffering with GAD for the last 18 mths.Speaking to someon at CAHMS helped her for a while, but she is now worse than ever and has a school phobia.She has missed about 6mths of education, only managing to get in once or twice a week for a couple of hours, and no school work was done as she would be having panic attacks and sitting in the medical room for most of the time.
After a LOT of calls to the school asking them for work for her to be doing at home, we were only given some after I contacted the council education department.My daughterhas tried studying some of this work at home, and broke down in tears tonight when I mentioned that she needed to do more studying as she has been avoiding it.She admitted that when she tries to read a textbook she has forgotten everything that she had previously learnt and is finding it imposssible to study.It does seem wrong that she is expected to learn all this work by herself, and I just don't know how to help.
She has been taking Fluoxetine for about 3mths and she seems happier in herself slightly, but all this worry about catching up on schoolwork is bringing her down, and I don't really think that the fluoxetine has helped her anxiety at all, just her depression.
Tonight she was sobbing in my arms saying that everything was too hard, was sick of people telling her "well done" if she attended half a school lesson and that she only got out of bed and pretended everything was fine for Apologies for this post being long and rambling, I was hoping that after she started her medication and had some schoolwork to cath up on that things would get better for her.I am just so sad and worried for her, has anyone else had or have any experience like this.
Okay, I am a single parent and my 14 yr old daughter has been suffering with GAD for the last 18 mths.Speaking to someon at CAHMS helped her for a while, but she is now worse than ever and has a school phobia.She has missed about 6mths of education, only managing to get in once or twice a week for a couple of hours, and no school work was done as she would be having panic attacks and sitting in the medical room for most of the time.
After a LOT of calls to the school asking them for work for her to be doing at home, we were only given some after I contacted the council education department.My daughterhas tried studying some of this work at home, and broke down in tears tonight when I mentioned that she needed to do more studying as she has been avoiding it.She admitted that when she tries to read a textbook she has forgotten everything that she had previously learnt and is finding it imposssible to study.It does seem wrong that she is expected to learn all this work by herself, and I just don't know how to help.
She has been taking Fluoxetine for about 3mths and she seems happier in herself slightly, but all this worry about catching up on schoolwork is bringing her down, and I don't really think that the fluoxetine has helped her anxiety at all, just her depression.
Tonight she was sobbing in my arms saying that everything was too hard, was sick of people telling her "well done" if she attended half a school lesson and that she only got out of bed and pretended everything was fine for Apologies for this post being long and rambling, I was hoping that after she started her medication and had some schoolwork to cath up on that things would get better for her.I am just so sad and worried for her, has anyone else had or have any experience like this.