My DD has just turned 13 and is really suffering from anxiety and depression... She recently took an overdose of paracetamol, which was a bolt out of the blue, and has been self harming for what seems like the past six months, scratching herself etc.
She saw a crisis team after taking the paracetamol, but as she had taken a low dose, had told me what she had done, and seemed okay, they discharged her as she was no longer kn crisis... we are waiting for a referral request from the GP for Cahms and ADHD testing.
I try to give her as much privacy as I can, but I looked through her snapchat last night and she was asking for advice on how to kill herself... I'm at my wits end, and at a loss of what to do or say to keep her safe.
She is constantly missing school due to anxiety, she feels like everyone is judging her and staring at her, she lies on her messages to her friends, telling people that I or her dad are shouting at her, calling her names etc, she lies about being with boys or things she is doing.
She is an only child, and I have a very open relationship with her, so she does talk to me, but it is almost as if she is pretending her life is more traumatic than it has been and that she is doing a lot of things for dramatic effect.
Please don't take that as me dismissing things, even if she was doing all of this for attention, its destructive to her and thats a problem that needs addressing jn itself.
I guess I'm just hoping to hear some friendly voices/advice etc on how best to help her through this.