Please tell me it’s just my awful health anxiety ☹️
my 8 year old has suddenly become very clingy, scared of lots of things and sleeping fitfully with nightmares each night. Been going on a month or 2 now. she’s also had quite a few headaches too. I’ve been trying to brush it off as some anxiety with a new class, but this week at school she got into huge trouble for back talking a teacher and swearing at her - I can’t tell you how out of character this is, she’s normally the most polite, obedient, quiet, sweet girl ever. And I’m not just being her mum saying that, that’s always been feedback from school. For her to swear at a teacher is like me heading into work tomorrow starkers.
i read an article today about a mum who had a little boy die of a brain tumour and his symptoms were sudden clinginess, headaches, nightmares and personality changes. I’m now in a stupid blind Google hole panic that’s what this is.
Please talk me down so I don’t lose the plot, I know rationally it’s extremely unlikely but my little girl feels so different lately and she can’t explain it, In fact when I ask her about any of the above she almost seems surprised. She shrugged off the school incident saying she didn’t do it- she absolutely did- and so she’s lying now too. It’s all just so different ☹️