My 12year old DD has always been a great sleep but began having problems last August, I though it was anxiety about starting high school but here we are 8 months on and its worse than ever.
A couple of weeks after the non-sleeping started we had a drunk trying to get into our house in the middle of the night unfortunately she was the one who heard him first and initially we all thought her was trying to break in, anyway we had to call the police to remove him as he wouldn't leave.
Ever since then she has hardly managed to sleep a night on her own. She can't explain why and denies that she is scared and is in fact in denial about the whole thing.
I have been to the GP who referred us to CAHMS but even then she played the whole thing down, they just suggested that I sit with her until she sleeps and not to give in and sleep with her, I have tried but to be honest I am so tired with the whole thing that I normally give in. She is becoming very selfish about it all and doesn't seem to care about the impact it has on me and the rest of the family.
I am at a loss about what to do next and wondered if anyone else had experienced this??
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RobertaRivers · 15/04/2014 14:04
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