Hi. New to mumsnet and hoping all you lovely mums will understand and give some advice. My 5 year old daughter has always been a happy, cheeky, funny little girl. She has always had a sensitive side and almost hides it. The recent school holidays of 7 weeks long means we have been together constantly. On a recent holiday she wanted to go to the kids club with my 8 year old daughter. My husband went to collect them after 1 hour and my 5 year of made a friend and wanted to stay. My husband left her playing happily. I thought it was strange she would stay without her sister and 15 mins later went back to check on her. She was distraught at being left. Since then she won't go to bed at night thinking we will leave her alone in the house, wakes up 3-4 times a night to check where I am. Screams if she doesn't know where I am in the house. She returned to school on Tuesday and needless to say this has not been a good experience. The teachers are shocked at how she is screaming for me at drop off and how withdrawn she is. She is also saying some very upsetting things like we hate her and if I ask her to eat nicely she says do you want to choke? It's so upsetting. I have tried being very patient and reassuring her as much as I can but with nearly 3 weeks of sleep depravation I starting to snap at her. Sorry if this is waffling on but getting desperate.