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Is this a type of burnout?

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Whatisfrenchtoast · 07/03/2026 08:20

I did post on the SEN board but thought I might get more responses on Chat.

DC is 5, heavily masking at school and since Christmas, meltdowns, the need to control things and adult support required for simple tasks has been increasing.
We've noticed a pattern with sudden high temperatures and tummy ache - always after school. Usually it's towards the end of each half term but it seems to be increasing in frequency (which makes sense with the workload usually going up a notch after Christmas).
The high temperatures never turn into any kind of illness and often last around 24 hours then just vanish. DC also will absolutely not take any form of medicine so suffers the full discomfort.
School so far haven't needed to set up any additional support but we did have a support plan at nursery.
Has anyone seen this or experienced it?

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glonurse · 07/03/2026 21:53

It sounds like stress is affecting their physiological response.

Many children and adults somatise their symptoms and stress shows up as an "undiagnosable" illness that magically disappears when the stress does.

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