My lovely DS has always been unusual. Anyone who comes into contact with him tell me how funny he is, how bright, energetic etc.
He has a really individual style - doesn't follow the crowd wrt music, clothes etc etc. He is bright and very easily bored.
This was always perfectly manageable until recently. He has always wanted to be the centre of attention - hence the making people laugh bit, but now it's becoming too much, and am wondering if there are some underlying behavioural or psychological issues I should be addressing?
He is seeing a learning mentor at school, because he has become aggressive and easily frustrated, distracting other children with his antics, trying to get the teachers attention, trying to make his table laugh. He is now the same at home. I have stopped him doing some EC activities because we (me/EXH & School) felt it may be making the frustration and aggression worse, and replaced them, with other things that may help him express himself better and that he also love, eg art and music lessons.
He is always either very UP or very down. Extremely disobedient one minute, tells lies about simple things like having a shower, taking money from my purse, won't get up for school, and then wanting cuddles, laughing joking etc the next minute.
He has also in the last month or two developed a fear of death, last week he was in panic mode because he thought he had testicular cancer, yesterday he banged his head out playing and was convinced he had fractured his skull and wouldn't wake up this morning.
Now I have an older DS - so I know that probably all of what I've mentioned above, are normal "phases", but with my lovely son all of what I have mentioned seem to be at the extreme end of the spectrum.
So how do I know whether this is normal and will pass, or whether there is an underlying psychological/mental health issue, and how do I address it? Who do I speak to? If I had to describe him I would be using words like manic, hyper etc