We are having major issues with DS 10, who is having meltdowns at the drop of a hat recently. He is bright, funny, generally compassionate and a lovely child, until the demon takes over. It's like he's two different people. Last night's lasted for an hour where he trashed things, threw water everywhere (that at least rung the changes with throwing everything off the shelves from his bedroom), swore horribly at me, hit me, kicked me, punched me. He then finally dissolved into tears saying how sorry he was. This is happening about 3 times a fortnight at the moment and is exhausting.
So things we've tried:
- Removal of television for 2 days after an "episode". He doesn't have any "tech" as such so that can't get taken away.
- Getting very organied so he doesn't get anxious about getting ready for things.
- Read "My hidden chimp" and various other "self-help" book.
- Him having meetings with the PSO at school to try and give him coping mechanisms.
He never behaves like this at school. I know he doesn't like school at the moment, he's in a 5/6 year split class and is in the younger end of the class and hates it. He does a team sport and drama so is relatively active. He has a group of 3 boys and several girls who is he good friends with but seems to dislike everyone else.
I'm at a loss. Any suggestions gratefully received.