My son has got very nervy recently, and has become completely pre-occupied with his sleep. He worries about not being able to fall asleep, waking up in the night or waking up too early and then being tired and it 'ruining' the next day. He talks about it all the time. No matter what we say, nothing helps. At the moment in the holidays it doesn't matter how long he sleeps either but that doesn't help his anxiety.
He has had a few issues with his teacher since September. He thinks she picks on him and doesn't like him. At one stage she blatantly told him she didn't believe him over some issue where I think he must have been telling the truth and he just couldn't handle it. He has taken himself to see the home school link worker to talk about it a few times. He's quite clever and popular but does have a tendency to talk too much which gets him into trouble. He can also be very strong willed and stubborn.
It strikes me as an OCD-like issue, which I suffered from myself from around his age and it pains me to see him suffering. There seems to be nothing that helps, apart from sitting for ages talking him down from his anxiety with common sense, but he soon works himself up again.
Any advice???