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Anxiety / panic attacks help !!

Sunlover77

Please help my 13 yr old son seems to be having panic attacks at school at home - anywhere really . It's been getting worse for the last 18 mths 

I've tried talking to him about it he says he's not worried about anything he doesn't understand what it or what he's really feeling.

He sometimes feels sick and it's put him off eating or drinking and will sometimes go all day without eating .

 I have no idea what's triggering it ! I dunno how to fix it for him . He gets really upset he loves school .

He says he gets hyperactive ( heart racing) 

the only way he seems to be able to deal with it is completely shutting down !

Any suggestions or help would've great as now he's missing school Surprised(

thanks x

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  • My son started having panic attacks at primary school age. I told him that I get them too and explained what they are. I showed him books and articles and we looked them up on the web. Once he understood the biological logic behind them they stopped being such a big scary monster and he could look at them rationally. Of most help to us were peoples "real life" accounts - text books and GPs can be a little too clinical. It worked for us, he still gets them sometimes but he'll come to me and say he's getting that "wierd feeling", we can have a chat about it and mainly it gets sorted. CAMHS  recommended medication for this and for his autism - with hindsight I am happy to say that we declined this. Funnily enough, after putting panic attacks into perspective for my son, my own all but disappeared! 

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  • My son started having panic attacks at primary school age. I told him that I get them too and explained what they are. I showed him books and articles and we looked them up on the web. Once he understood the biological logic behind them they stopped being such a big scary monster and he could look at them rationally. Of most help to us were peoples "real life" accounts - text books and GPs can be a little too clinical. It worked for us, he still gets them sometimes but he'll come to me and say he's getting that "wierd feeling", we can have a chat about it and mainly it gets sorted. CAMHS  recommended medication for this and for his autism - with hindsight I am happy to say that we declined this. Funnily enough, after putting panic attacks into perspective for my son, my own all but disappeared! 

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