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Teen son with autism, adhd, depression and epilepsy

Caring dad

Hi everyone 

just reaching out.. 

I am not sure where to turn next, my son is 17. He has the following diagnosed conditions; autism. ADHD, depression and epilepsy. He’s not had an easy life, but we are at rock bottom, somehow we kept him in mainstream school but he has now left school mid way through his alevels. He was being billed for being weird, he has now not left home for over two weeks, incredibly depressed and will not leave his bed. He had been on a range of drugs, personally I do not think they have helped, he had been on sertraline  for years, and topirimate for the last two years for his epilepsy. He has lost most of his hair on top, and his specialist and psychologist would not acknowledge he was loosing his hair. He had not eaten a proper meal for over two years, he is skin and bones. He hates me and will not take any advice from me, I suffer with my mental health also and had a breakdown about 6 weeks ago. 
not sure what I am hoping for from posting on here, my wife said to mr I need to accept that he will Kill himself soon and his age expectancy is much lower. I just feel hopeless and alone 

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  • Your family is having a hard time. My daughter, who has ADHD, anxiety, panic attacks and other problems, dropped out of doing A levels due to stress. She took about 6 months to recover, then looked around for non-A-level courses and decided on a 2 year art course. She found doing a single subject in a different setting from 6th form college a big improvement. She got into Cambridge Art School and graduated recently with a 1st class degree. Things can get better.

  • in reply to Martin

    Fantastic to hear how well your daughter is doing. I’ve come to the forum as I have no one to talk to about this, the more I talk to my wife the more stressed she becomes. My friends don’t understand, it genuinely had made me feel a bit better listening to the positivity 

    thanks 

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