Hi,
This is my first post and I'm really struggling.
Our son was diagnosed nearly a year ago. He is 10, nearly 11, and has always suffered with anxiety. In the last 6 months he has struggled to get to sleep on a daily basis and wakes repeatedly in the night and then struggles to get back to sleep.
The GP has been wonderful. We are on the waiting list for counselling and we started melatonin last week. It's not working, yet anyway.
For the last 6 months I have been going to bed at 8pm and sitting with him whilst he falls asleep because his anxiety causes him such discomfort if I am not there. My husband and I don't get to spend any time together and my younger daughter feels hugely left out and that I am not spending any time with her.
He is very unhappy and wants his old life back and I desperately want to help him, but I just don't know what else to do. I bought a weighted blanket which he refused to try last night because of the heat.
Has anyone had any experience of this? I am feeling so low and so helpless. He is tired, and I am tired.
Lauren
