I could do with some advice.
This afternoon we had a call from our 14 year old asking to be picked up because he was drunk. We collected him and he was in a state. After cleaning him up I’ve sat with him and established that this is not the first time.
He has been complaining for a while about how busy and noisy his head is. This has stopped him getting to sleep as he can’t switch off. Tonight between tears he said that drinking is the only way to calm his brain and that he hates his head any would do anything to make the noises stop. This was hard to hear and I had no idea it was this big of a problem.
He said me he wanted to tell me about the drinking but was scared of being in trouble, I asked what he was scared of as the worst that would happen is being grounded, losing phone etc be said me stopping him seeing his friends that’s his biggest fear.
I intend to call the dr tomorrow but my question is what to do about him seeing his friends. He has some nice ones but the ones he seems to drink with are a bit more rough around the edges, I would prefer he didn’t see them of course but I don’t know if I should ground him, stop him seeing them or just for now concentrate on helping his head get sorted?