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My mental health

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I have a beautiful, amazing autistic son aged 7 who is in a crisis right now.  He hits, kicks and punches us daily.  He is screaming from the minute he opens his eyes until bedtime.  He is tormenting the family pets.  A few days ago my body just shut down.  My brain stopped working and I couldn’t understand anything anyone said.  I couldn’t understand simple instructions suddenly, I started being sick and got diarrhoea, and couldn’t eat.  I’ve now been referred for mental health support for myself.  I feel like such a bad mum right now but when he starts screaming now I literally get tummy pain, feel sick and my brain is shutting down.  What’s going on? I’ve been dropping off to sleep all of a sudden too.  Can’t stop crying.  How did it get to this?  Anyone else been here?  Did it get better? 

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  • That's great that you've been referred for mental health support. Why not search online for ideas to help with your stress? You could type stress busters or stress relief into a search engine and see what webpage suggestions you get. You could try meditation - there are lots of free resources online. Have a look at some of the forum posts on this site for meditation. Lots of people find it useful to keep anxiety at bay.

    Do you have anyone who could look after your son for a while to give you a break?

    Good luck.

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  • That's great that you've been referred for mental health support. Why not search online for ideas to help with your stress? You could type stress busters or stress relief into a search engine and see what webpage suggestions you get. You could try meditation - there are lots of free resources online. Have a look at some of the forum posts on this site for meditation. Lots of people find it useful to keep anxiety at bay.

    Do you have anyone who could look after your son for a while to give you a break?

    Good luck.

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