Hi
sorry if this isn’t right it’s my first time writing on something like this but I feel like I can’t be the only person going through this problem and wondered if anyone can offer any advice..
My daughter is almost 11, she has struggled with anxious tummy aches for the past few years, we have tried everything. We have kept food diary’s which nothing seems to trigger it, visited the doctors who think it is all anxiety related. We have seen a private child psychologist who works for CAMS and this made it so much worse. It eventually went away from us just completely ignoring it and did for months.
A few months ago she went on a guide camp and it’s all started again because she wanted to come home at 12am and worried because she couldn’t because everyone was asleep. She’s up most of the night, crying when going to school, doesn’t want to go to any of her clubs because she says she has tummy aches. She has come out in hives because she worries so much. The problem is she has no idea what she’s anxious about. She can never tell me so I can help. It’s so difficult to deal with because I feel awful dropping her at school when she’s crying and feeling sick or sitting up with her on a night and not knowing what to do to make it better. Generally we try the cbt approach the child psychologist recommended but that doesn’t tend to work. She has lost weight from this and is a completely different child to what she was. I don't know where to go with this so I just wondered if anyone can offer any advice or can relate to this.
thanks in advance 😊