This has probably been posted time and time again but I need some advice or just someone to talk to.
DS has just turned 4. He has always been challenging even as a tiny baby he was never content. Never slept well and is highly demanding.
He is an absolute angel when he is happy but atleast twice a day we have hour long battles and tantrums where I can't even describe his behaviour. It is always over nothing, this evening it was because I got his brother out of the bath before him. He just screamed for an hour and absolutely nothing I could do could help him. This morning it was because he wanted to wear a long sleeved vest under his preschool tshirt and I didn't have a dry one. We were late for school and I felt so awful.
He is very sensitive to noise and touch but he loves a cuddle and tells me he loves me all the time.
He talks about himself in the third person a lot and explains that there is a naughty boy inside him who comes out and he has to kill him. These stories he makes up worry me as we have never spoken like this before.
There is a history of mental illness in my family but DH won't have that there could be anything wrong with our DS.
I love my DS so much and I wouldn't want him any other way but he just seems so unhappy and I am at my wits end.
He was an early talker and is advanced with his speech. He is over empathetic and amazing with his brother and I try to convince myself that these qualities mean he must be normal but it's niggling at the back of my mind all the time.
Sorry for the epic post. I feel quite lost and have no one to talk to.