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Help for my daughter

Emily's mum

Hi I'm looking for help for my daughter who has asd. She's 24 but still very childlike and was a sweet girl, always kind and friendly. Over the last couple of years there's been a lot of stress in the family, at the time my daughter seemed to cope well but in the last couple of months she's changed and now I'm very worried. She told me she hears voices. There horrible to her apparently. She has also become very violent. She tried to strangle her sister and she screams and shouts if you go into her room or into her space. And the last couple of days she's not recognizing me or the family or where she is. She thinks she's in a prison and we're her guards. And she says that demons are after her. Is all this part of her autism? How can I help her through this? I'm just really worried and don't know what to do. Please help.

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  • Oh wow you do need immediate assistance. I would contact a clinical psychologist asap (private if you cannot get help from the NHS) and get some kind of anxiety medication to start which hopefully she'll only need temporarily. 

    Knowing so little about her overall health and other hyper sensory issues, it sounds as if she's either been holding a great deal of stress in and now it's manifesting in ways which confuse reality and fantasy or something genetic or...

    If you're religious there's possible another side to this. When children are raised in an environment where they learn pieces of gigantic concepts (angels, demons, miracles, G-d), or if they have a bent toward Physics or Philosophy, without proper knowledge and understanding, the broken bits of knowledge can become incredibly warped and take on a life of their own. A demon is an entity created by myths and stories and religions which embodies chaos and sadism. So, 2 things, either there are these darker systems or forces (like the force of gravity) of chaos and sadism in very small seemingly inconsequential and 'invisible' things happening from others around her and her heightened senses (emotional/psychological) and most likely heightened ability to use her imagination is creating a waking dream (a picture is worth a 1000 words). OR she desperately needs to become much more grounded in her understanding of whatever you may ascribe to. If it's christianity, she should read the Bible itself and work out how the information has been skewed. Same with any other "Manual". 

    Most importantly she needs to feel loved and not terrorised. Protected and not abandoned. It may be as simple as re-wiring her perspectives on what 'demons' are and how much 'power' they have. It could be something more. But some sort of medication to help her feel less terrorised and able to focus until she can redesign her perspectives can be temporarily useful. 

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  • Oh wow you do need immediate assistance. I would contact a clinical psychologist asap (private if you cannot get help from the NHS) and get some kind of anxiety medication to start which hopefully she'll only need temporarily. 

    Knowing so little about her overall health and other hyper sensory issues, it sounds as if she's either been holding a great deal of stress in and now it's manifesting in ways which confuse reality and fantasy or something genetic or...

    If you're religious there's possible another side to this. When children are raised in an environment where they learn pieces of gigantic concepts (angels, demons, miracles, G-d), or if they have a bent toward Physics or Philosophy, without proper knowledge and understanding, the broken bits of knowledge can become incredibly warped and take on a life of their own. A demon is an entity created by myths and stories and religions which embodies chaos and sadism. So, 2 things, either there are these darker systems or forces (like the force of gravity) of chaos and sadism in very small seemingly inconsequential and 'invisible' things happening from others around her and her heightened senses (emotional/psychological) and most likely heightened ability to use her imagination is creating a waking dream (a picture is worth a 1000 words). OR she desperately needs to become much more grounded in her understanding of whatever you may ascribe to. If it's christianity, she should read the Bible itself and work out how the information has been skewed. Same with any other "Manual". 

    Most importantly she needs to feel loved and not terrorised. Protected and not abandoned. It may be as simple as re-wiring her perspectives on what 'demons' are and how much 'power' they have. It could be something more. But some sort of medication to help her feel less terrorised and able to focus until she can redesign her perspectives can be temporarily useful. 

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