My daughter has had very bad separation anxiety since she was around 2 but it's only in the house. I find this so strange and can't see a post here where their child is fine too my to school, going to friends houses, going to extra curricular clubs, everything like that is totally fine. Never had any "typical" separation anxiety like that. She's now 5 and I'm seriously at the end of my tether with it, if I need to go to the toilet she follows me upstairs and sits outside the door, if she needs to go she melts down unless someone is there sitting on the stairs. It's sad because things she's doing and very happy doing like colouring or playing are interrupted if I just need to go put some washing away or something and she just drops everything and follows me like a puppy. I'm finding it very suffocating, I've recently been diagnosed with ADHD and get very overwhelmed and frustrated with her. I don't want to feel that way and want to have infinite patience, how do I deal with this and can anyone offer me some hope that there will be some improvement. I thought there would be by now when we were dealing with it at 2 x