Dd is 11 and autistic. Linked to this is quite extreme anxiety, that has got worse and worse over the last year or so. I’m exhausted from it. I so badly want to help her, but it is exhausting.
Today she’s been tearful and unsettled because we all have a cold and she has a sore throat. She says she’s worried about surgery to remove her tonsils or wisdom teeth- neither of these things are at all likely. She has to tell me every little thing that hurts, if she knocks herself, if she thinks something is unusual (tonight is an itchy neck, most likely linked to cold).
She constantly feels worried and anxious, I feel awful saying this but it’s so hard to love with. She constantly wants to talk about it, wants me to solve it, diagnose it. She’s not in school so she’s here all the time.
Tonight she’s had a meltdown because I didn’t take the itchy neck seriously enough in her opinion. Argh. I’m an awful mother but I can’t take this much longer.
Shes on a very long waiting list for mindmate/camhs. GP says there is nothing they ca do.