Yesterday ds1 had an assessment with CAMHS and they said they couldn't offer us any help, because what we were already doing as parents was fine.
Today a lucky young person on their driving test got to demonstrate their emergency stop for real when ds pulled away from dh and stepped out in front of a car (our school is round the corner from the driving test centre).
I'm at my wit's end. All I came away with was a reading list of books about helping children with low self-esteem. Which of course I have ordered and will read, but I kind of hoped someone with actual experience and knowledge would be able to help, y'know?
I have hunted high and low for private counselling which we would happily pay for but it's hard to find anyone who will work with children this young (the ones that say they do children mostly seem to start at 10).
He's a lovely kid, has friends, hobbies, empathy, is very bright, but massively oversensitive and emotionally much younger than his actual age.
I can't believe that actual repeated attempts to self-harm, plus impossible behaviour at school (it was them who referred him to CAMHS) - oh, plus episodes where he thinks I am someone else/a monster in disguise and am trying to hurt him - are not considered enough to actually help us. What do we do? Other than what we are doing now, trying to parent him well and keep him safe?
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So, CAMHS won't help us. What can we DO about an 8yo who wants to die?
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TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 03/06/2015 11:57
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