shantymom
28-10-18, 16:46
My son just turned 17 and is on a youth exchange for a year. He is now two months into his 10 month exchange and it is not getting easier. He is now having what he thinks are panic attacks and paralyzing anxiety. He has never been diagnosed with this but it seems accurate from what I can tell even though I am not a doctor. His host family is not warm and supportive thus he has no one to turn to for comfort. He has sketchy wifi for reading articles about this but can get texts. What can I share with him to help? I am trying to get him a therapist he can email with and he has a dog he lives with that I hope he can cuddle with but he might have to come home if he can not find the right tools.