Dd...story she wrote?

[sahs1969]

Hi,

I don't often post on here as generally don't seem to have many concerns but tonight's found a story in my daughters school book that she has written, and reading it is so so sad.....it's all about a little girl that is following her and is with her everywhere she goes, and she is telling her to do horrible things, kill herself and that she is useless and that nobody loves her, not even her real M&D,
My dd is 12 and has been under Camhs in the past but they have finished seeing her about 2 years ago. She is under a Paed and I'm wondering where to go with this.....I've spoken to dd and she said its just a story and she thinks it's a funny one....I said I found it very sad!

Dd is adopted but has been with us since she was 12 months, all her half siblings have mental health issues but none live with us. I am very concerned?

I'm feeling so low tonight anyway and now to find this......

Thanks for listening
X

Sahs, that is worrying with her history. Who has she written the story for? Is it just for herself or is it school work? I guess without her history it wouldn't be as worrying, just a teenager thing.

She says she's just written it for fun, as a story, when I explained that I thought it was very sad and upsetting to read, she got quite angry with me saying she doesn't want me to do anything with it, but I just feel I cannot leave it.
X

It sounds like you need to talk this through with someone who knows more than we do, TBH. I'd agree with Polter, maybe try a phonecall to CAMHS.

It could just be a story.

When I was 12 I wrote a lengthy piece about having heroin addiction, and my mother's fight to help me undergo cold turkey. Complete with lengthy descriptions of both the actual drug use (a how-to manual, if you will) then the feelings and symptoms and awfulness of trying to get clean - including fighting with said mother and her eventually locking me in my room and barricading the door for 24 hours so that I couldn't get out and find a dealer. It was called 'chasing the dragon' and I still remember it.

Given that I 've never even had a drag of a regular cigarette, even 30 years on, it really wasn't written from personal experience.

Despite the fact that the school called social services.

Sometimes a story is just a story. As long as she knows she can talk to you about anything, and if you have no other concerns, then I would try not to worry, but keep a close eye.

The last thing you want is for her to feel you are watching her, and questioning her motives for anything.

It could be her own form of art therapy, and forcing her to share that stuff with a stranger could be counter - productive.

I would also say that sharing how you feel when you read it might not be ideal - it could be seen as an opener to conversation, but it could also be seen as a criticism - she shouldn't have done it, as she's making people sad, which is a Bad Thing. Which isn't exactly laying the foundations for open expression of thoughts and feelings.