Dd has been struggling recently with her mental health. She's on the waiting list for CAMHS , has counselling at school and speaks kooth .
She told me last night that she had self harmed. I asked her why and she:
Literally everything that I could think of, I started thinking about homework and then i started thinking about the exams I just had and how badly I probably did and then it was GCSEs and I realised I’m definitely gonna fail my controlled assessment for business and definitely gonna fail IT as a whole because I have no idea what I’m doing like at all.
I told her to come to my room. And we had a hug and a chat . I told her that I understand school put alot of pressure on them to do well . I told her but you do your best for yourself. Not for the school to look good. I told her education is for ever even if she did fail. She can try again. But there's also other things such as b tech. And other courses. I told her that GCSE is not worth self harm and that she is more important.
I'm not in the position to get her extra tutoring. Also dd says she feels she needs a break from school stuff so I think that would just cause more stress for her. And I can't afford it anyway