My 13yo DS is on the waiting list for CAMHS - about 8 months off I'm told. Hs school is threatening to permanently exclude him - fee-paying, they can do this - so we have decided to see a consultant child psych privately. That is next week. We really need some kind of diagnosis so we can sort out a treatment programme for him, rather than groping in the dark like we are at the moment.
What is really concerning me at the moment are his violent outbursts. He has admitted to suicidal thoughts in the past, so when he loses it, we don't leave him on his own. Last night he was shouting, screaming, calling us stupid cunts, battering doors, pushing, trying to pull chairs out from underneath us, and them he purposefully smashed a glass wardrobe door. My husband was home last night, so we coped. But how am I supposed to deal with these rampages on my own?
I'm venting more than anything else. But I really don't know how to respond to this, other than prioritising keeping the other 3 children, and himself, safe. He has hit me hard enough to bruise and thrown chairs at me in the past.
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Child mental health
Violent outbursts can't continue
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sighbynight · 05/02/2016 12:34
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