Not sure how much more i can take

I'm sorry for the rant guys and girls but I'm not sure how much ,more i can take. My 16 year daughter has asd and over the last year her anxieties and depression have spiralled massively. Obviously this has been made worse with the lock down which in the beginning she was so out of control and unable to sleep I had to make the decision to send her back to school and put her on melatonin. 

Then I found out she had confided in a family member she was self harming ( something I kick myself for for not noticing the signs ) I immediately contacted the gp who sent another referral of to the paediatricians and notified the school but each of the,m sent me a letter to say because she is seeing a cbt there isn't much more help than what she is already GETTING! 

I attend her cbt meetings every week something the school and the counsellor thought would help her open up but every week is the same old s##t she will refuse to go in and then once we have taken forever to get her in she says everything is horrible ... like how she feels is horrible going to school is horrible.  There is never anything positive come out of the meetings. 

It's sole destroying listening to your child say her life is ***, she worries constantly about everyone and anything and will often say we don't understand her but it's not that we don't try but we walk on egg shells around her especially now that I know she could self harm her again.

It seems no professional will help her or us has a family because her behaviour is down to the asd but I feel now I am letting her down because she no longer a little girl that I can hug when things are bad these days I have to wait and be there when she wants or feels the need for cuddles 

Take care people

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  • Hello , I empathise completely.  My daughter wasn't self harming but was suicidal. It is so hard and seeing your child self harming is very painful. Maybe she is still in need of hugs? What you can do is continue to reassert that you are there for her, so she could go to you for anything. Maybe try to de-dramatise the self harm so she could come to you without feeling guilty, if you see what I mean. For what I know CBT is not very helpful unless the therapist makes huge adaptations for ASC.. 

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  • Hello , I empathise completely.  My daughter wasn't self harming but was suicidal. It is so hard and seeing your child self harming is very painful. Maybe she is still in need of hugs? What you can do is continue to reassert that you are there for her, so she could go to you for anything. Maybe try to de-dramatise the self harm so she could come to you without feeling guilty, if you see what I mean. For what I know CBT is not very helpful unless the therapist makes huge adaptations for ASC.. 

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