That’s the question, do I? My partner think I do. He thinks I’m not coping and my mental health is deteriorating. I share things on Facebook and he thinks they are a cry for help. He tells me that social media has been proved to damage the mind. These comments make me doubt that I […]
Christmas is always a tricky time for our kiddo, most celebration days and times are stressful. We no longer celebrate most of the days – Mother’s and Father’s Day, birthdays, etc because it gets too hard. Our kiddo wants those days to be perfect – 100% perfect – and if any emotion than pure happiness […]
We have a short term plan. Our boy is going to work through an anxiety programme, one on one with his Explore lady. He talked to her about it last week and they’ve agreed that he will do 20 mins a week. Small steps. He told her he was happy with that. She told him […]
Our initial meeting with Explore went ok. We will have a plan in a couple of months. It will incorporate our homeschooling goals too. The first thing to tackle will be enabling our boy to feel secure enough to leave the house and go places. This impacts everything – our boy’s social life, our social life, […]
It dawned on me this morning that I’m looking at things the wrong way. We have our first appointment with a behaviour support/therapy agency in a couple of weeks, so I’ve been thinking a lot about what we want to achieve with them. Facebook has been offering lots of those “memories” photos lately too. That has […]
Yep, it really has! Only 6 months since we found out what our boy is dealing with and why life is so tricky for him. It feels much longer! Yes, it does feel much longer, but it’s also reassuring that it is only 6 months because that means that we’ve come a really really long […]
I think the meds may be making a positive difference. We are one week in. What do I see? A boy who is generally calmer, is using his manners without any reminder, and he’s telling me he loves me again 🙂 His sleeping has been ok, a couple of blips but nothing major at this […]
We haven’t really made much progress recently. Anxiety levels are relatively stable so long as we don’t do much, or go out much! There are a few things that seem tolerable sometimes, so long as there are not too many people and it doesn’t take too long. Behaviour therapy is still not started. Honestly, an […]
Some days are just so hard. I really thought that our boy was more settled, but since we had a houseguest for a few days it feels he’s just gone backwards. Today he’s been crying and asking why anyone even exists. The world will end one day, everyone is going to die at some point, […]
The boy is still not quite back to our pre-visitor state. Tonight I was meant to go out for a drink with the boy’s dad, but right at the last minute he asked me to stay home. His dad has gone out still – which is good, but our boy is still a bit wired. […]
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