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DS took an overdose

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GreenDogs · 20/09/2025 20:12

Sorry if this doesn't make much sense, I feel like I've failed him

I had a call from school last year when he was 13 because he'd been self farming. Not in school but they saw the cuts in PE. He’d been doing it a while he said. I called the GP for an emergency CAMHS referral but I kept being fobbed off by the GP, that it was just his hormones etc. He hadn't even started puberty yet!

He was school refusing before summer and didn't do anything except stay in bed. He was much the same during summer but we had an incident where he stole vodka and got so drunk we needed to go to A&E, after that he was apologetic and it seemed to scare him. He’d also been smoking weed with some of the older lads near by but apart from that he didn't go out. He broke up with his GF of nearly a year as just seemed low but I thought it was because of the break up and he didn't really say anything else

He went back to school on a reduced timetable. I pick him up just before lunch. And it seems to be ok, bar him getting in trouble for behaviour, being disruptive in class etc.

He went out today and when he came back he was acting off, he eventually told us he'd taken paracetamol but he didn't know how many. DP has taken him to A&E. I'm here with our 7yo trying to keep things normal but I feel like crying. It's also DP’s birthday tomorrow so I don't know how to explain us not doing anything to youngest

Sorry this is all over the place

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Elizabethandfour · 20/09/2025 20:14

I am so sorry. How awful for you and your poor ds. Can you go private for help? I have heard good things about EMDR therapy.

GreenDogs · 20/09/2025 20:25

We can't afford to go private

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QuirkyHorse · 20/09/2025 20:31

My dd took a paracetamol overdose.
She had a blood test so they could get an indication of how many she took.
If I remember correctly, 16 is the magic number. If it is less than 16, no treatment. My dd was just under, so I don't know what the treatment would have entailed.

She was kept in overnight and saw the crisis team in the morning.

Louisechocco · 20/09/2025 20:40

Poor you this sounds like an awful situation you having to deal with and my heart goes out to you. Hopefully now he will get the help he so obviously needs. Please please don’t blame yourself you have done what you can and you need all your energies now to keep a steady ship for your other child. Hopefully this will be a turning point in trying to get to the bottom of what has been going on for him. Sending positive vibes to you and do look after yourself in all of this.

Losingtheplot2016 · 20/09/2025 20:41

Really sorry to hear this. Please know you aren’t alone. My Dd did the same thing last year. Hopefully you will get some support. In our case it was a spontaneous act rather than a planned thing.
I think the tough thing is that young people aren’t necessarily in a position to explain what happening inside them

i think it must be so tough to be home with your son hospital. I’d be really stressed about that , not knowing what is happening. Lots of love to you

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