My 11 year old daughter told me last night that she hears voices. She has found this a very frightening experience, she said it started just this week. The voice says “I am here” or asks her to “come here”.
Over the past few months I have seen her change from being bubbly, energetic and tidy to now sleeping a lot, wearing dirty clothes and not really caring about anything.
She doesn’t have any special needs or health problems.
Sometimes she has a recurring dream about a stripy car trying to run her over.
In text messages to her friends she has used terms such as “mental breakdown” and “I couldn’t breathe when you told me that”
She has recently started sleeping on the landing (outside my bedroom) and not wanting to sleep in her bed.
She seems scared that she will lose one of us.
She is starting secondary school next week.
I don’t know what to do, how to help her. Thank you for listening.