Hi I wondered if I could have a private post please ?
My 17 year old daughter is autistic and very young for her age. Shes a beautiful soul and sadly anxiety has begun to make her so unhappy.
She’s overthinking anything that’s said to her and last night I was up with her for 5 hours with different worries and anxieties. Some being about war and other things beyond my control. Well anyone’s really.
I try to validate her worries and reassure her with love and understanding but I m exhausted and although I have asked our gp for a mental health evaluation it’s going to take weeks until appointment. Can anyone advise how best to support her. I’m so worried about her. She can be talking normally one min and be really distressed the next. Thanks for any support offered x
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I also get him to write the worries down as the more I engaged with him about his worries, the worse it gets.
Whatever I said, it was never right and just made it worse. So in the end I stopped spending hours with him going over them, the more I fed into it the more he spiralled.
Are you able to send her to a psychologist? She will receive therapy and an evaluation to see if medication will help 💚
Has she tried anxiety medication and therapy
My son is on meds and sees a therapist