At my wits end

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Once again iv just put kids to bed and Im sitting down crying my eyes out. Ds is such hard work. As usual it ended with him having a meltdown, kicking me, head butting, screaming. He has about 10 meltdowns a day. I ended up screaming at him and now i feel so guilty.
He is 4 and is to be assessed by a psychologist. We were told he was fourth on list now they say this will be delayed. Im so frustrated with the system.
Sorry Im not lookin for advice just to know others has been through this and survived!

when we were waiting for ds2 to be assessed by camhs they said it would be months , i was at the end of my tether and phoned them up telling them how bad things were after a couple of calls they suddenly had an available appointment and saw him . i think its a case of the squeaky wheel gets the oil .

My ds has different problems but I have been at my wits end, called his pead and had appointments called forward. Make some calls tomorrow

When you try to shift the appointment, if you get the brush-off, follow up by popping in rather than phoning.

A full-on demo of the behaviours outside the department can work wonders.

I feel everytime ot or speech therapist see his behaviour they are thinking its my parenting skills. I have three children and the other two are well enough behaved for me to know this is not my fault yet they keep makin comments towards me. Will phone them later

Ignore what you feel they think. You are imagining all possibilities whichay not be true. Look at your facts. Taking everything into account is your sons speech ok? If not then the fact is he needs help. Stick to your facts, I'm sure people think all sorts about me but really it's not what I'm interested in. My sons disability is a fact and I stick to that