My lovely step daughter is 15. She is a very anxious girl (always has been), worries excessively about her grades, spends hours making sure she hasn't got a hair out of place. She's a lovely kind and empathetic girl.
Over the last year we have noticed some cuts on her arms and asked about it but she kept saying she had had random accidents. She has also been sating she hates school. She can't pinpoint why, she just basically describes it as completely overwhelming.
She began to have episodes where she would get completely overwhelmed and just shut down at school. OH and her mum (amicable coparents, 50/50 time with each) went to school and had a meeting with head of pastoral and DSD. She admitted that she had been cutting herself as it made her feel calmer. School put some support in place and made a camhs referral but she's still waiting to be seen. At home all sharps are out the way, we've all been giving her lots of TLC but she's so quiet, just a shadow of her usual self.
Tonight she has cut herself very badly and OH has taken her to A&E.
Does anyone who works in the field know what help might be given now things have gotten so bad? We're all so worried about her and none of us know what to do, the camhs waiting list is forever, she's escalating. I'm honestly so scared that the next call will be to say she's taken her own life.