Does anyone have any experience of their child having a sever anxiety attack? I don't know how else to explain it..he is in an autism class in school and was doing great all year. He goes to after school 3 days a week. On Monday he was in the after school all day as school was off. He cried to coke home and was collected. Since then he has said things that are not making sense- I want my real mammy and Daddy, where's my mammy, when can I see her- asking this to me - his mother, talking to himself and trying to process information or previous conversations. Can't go to school and just so sad. We brought him to a&e and psychiatrist said it was sensory overwhelm and shut down. Has anyone experienced this before? It's so intense and out of character. I'm so sad and scared for him. He has improved since Tuesday but I'm just bewildered that this could happen.....