Basically, my daughter is 14. She is currently under CAMHS, referred before the first lockdown as she was self harming, suicidal thoughts and had always struggled to cope with minor issues.
Currently, she is having an assessment for autism, ADD etc. As camhs had recognised certain signs.
She doesn’t have a proper friend. She didn’t have one in primary school either. She gets pushed out of friendship groups very easily, and as she isn’t assertive and lacks confidence, she is an easy target. She finds it hard to join in with certain conversations that other girls have. She does try but she just struggles to fit in.
She has a main friend, but a group of girls have taken a disliking to her, and she has ended up having to sit on her own at lunch times.
Last week, she went to sit with her friend and some of the girls were telling her she couldn’t sit with them, despite her main friend being sat there.
She struggles to concentrate in class, daydreams and is getting stressed out with it. She keeps getting warnings from the teachers about staring in to space or out of the window. She’s not disruptive at all, she’s very quiet and tends to blend in the back ground.
On Friday morning, she flat refused to go to school. She has never done this before so i talked to her and she was feeling very overwhelmed with everything that is going on. High anxiety, and feeling very alone at school. She cannot articulate very well so finds it’s very hard to approach a member of staff about how she feels.
Her face can be quite expressionless at times, so I’m not sure if this could be reason that girls tend to act the way they do. They maybe see her as rude.
Anyway, I rang the school, no reply. I emailed the school twice asking them to phone me to discuss this matter. I heard nothing at all.
So here we are today, I’m still trying to get in contact with them. I’ve rang, emailed but no luck.
The school need to be aware that my daughter is struggling again, as I know they have things in place to help with that, as she’s been known to lock herself in the toilets in the past refusing to come out when she was overwhelmed.
She has a camhs appointment tomorrow for further tests, however I’m at a loss with what to do as it’s still going to be a while before camhs figure out what may be going on.
I can’t go down the school as they lock the doors to prevent parents coming in due to covid.
Do I phone up camhs for advice? Go down the school anyway? Keep trying to phone?
AIBU in getting mega annoyed with their lack of communication?