Social anxiety

[Lostmum29]

Looking for some advice on how to help my dd13. It has recently come to light that she is struggling with social anxiety (not extremely but enough to need some support). She has always been introverted but she seems to be getting more uncomfortable talking to people she doesn't know well, so much that she feels ill. Does anyone have any advice on what I can do to help her??

Hi I am completely new to mumsnet and i have signed up today for the very same reason as yourself, my daughter is 16 and has been suffer with anxiety since she was around 12 she was referred to CAMHS and was diagnosed with being on the autism spectrum
She has seen many counsellors but none seem to of helped as she just cant communicate with them and sits in silence.
I just want her to enjoy life but at the moment she is very isolated and struggles with day to day life.
I dont know what to do to help her :-(

My DD also suffers severe social anxiety which has now developed into eating problems aswel..she is severely underweight as a result to this. She attends camhs and is receiving a little CBT, unfortunately her weight needs to come up 1st to get full benefits from this therapy. It may be something worth looking into

One of mine suffers with this. It was brought on by school and was starting to affect life outside school. Student support services at school were quite good as they gave her a "safe" place to go. Also some CBT helped but we had to go privately as she doesn't qualify for CAMHS despite self-harming The best thing though was being there for her (I know if sounds cheesy) and listening to her/talking to her. This included taking the odd day off school. I have had to change my working hours to accommodate her and it's exhausting but worth it.
Letting her know there are other options has also helped like moving schools/home ed etc. All ideas that she dismissed eventually but giving her control over her life has helped.

I have found that in our area camhs have been fantastic but other areas not so great. It def depends on where u live. Really hope u get the support you need, it's an awful condition and extremely hard to deal with