It is happening right now so I will apologize in advance if I am not entirely coherent.
To summarize. Nothing will set off our 8 year old daughter. She will immediately start freaking out, in the past she has drawn blood - repeatedly on her father, beaten the **** out of him and me, at times. For example. Today, we were calling the vet to get the results on one of our cats. She flips out, starts screaming "YOU DONT WANT ME TO CALL GABBY!" "YOU ARE NOT ALLOWING ME TO HAVE A SLEEPOVER" and always "YOU HATE ME." Every dance move we have to de escalate her does not work. She becomes an absolute feral animal and begins to destroy our house. I can't believe the neighbors haven't called CPS with how loud she is.
Recently we have found out that her friend has to calm her down at recess. So I guess it is spreading.
She has seen a therapist who did not find out anything useful, she has seen a psychiatrist who did not have anything to say as far as treatment.
Our son is graduating high school, I guess that would put stress on her.
She is my child but there is something missing in her. I have spent so long trying to figure out the riddle, to keep her from hurting herself (she will pound her head on the floor or punch herself) and us and our home and her brother and the rare animal grabbing.
She is 8. We live in a house of mouse traps, all set to go off.
In the physical sense, she has low iron, ferron in her blood. She is a vegetarian. She takes melatonin once in a while to sleep. She is healthy, very very dry skin. She is well liked among the girls. She has sleep apnea. She sits up at night while asleep.
She comes home and wants to kill us, we love her, I love this child, I have taken the blows emotionally and on my body for years. I don't know what to do. Our lives crumble as our emotional well being erodes.
It becomes, how much do we have to take, endure for her, how far do we need to go? Sleep is my only respite. But then she climbs into my bed (we share a room, working on her sleeping in her own bed at the moment, we are earthy granola types).
Thanks for reading this, our sense of humor pulls us through but man my hands are shaking,
Rose
To summarize. Nothing will set off our 8 year old daughter. She will immediately start freaking out, in the past she has drawn blood - repeatedly on her father, beaten the **** out of him and me, at times. For example. Today, we were calling the vet to get the results on one of our cats. She flips out, starts screaming "YOU DONT WANT ME TO CALL GABBY!" "YOU ARE NOT ALLOWING ME TO HAVE A SLEEPOVER" and always "YOU HATE ME." Every dance move we have to de escalate her does not work. She becomes an absolute feral animal and begins to destroy our house. I can't believe the neighbors haven't called CPS with how loud she is.
Recently we have found out that her friend has to calm her down at recess. So I guess it is spreading.
She has seen a therapist who did not find out anything useful, she has seen a psychiatrist who did not have anything to say as far as treatment.
Our son is graduating high school, I guess that would put stress on her.
She is my child but there is something missing in her. I have spent so long trying to figure out the riddle, to keep her from hurting herself (she will pound her head on the floor or punch herself) and us and our home and her brother and the rare animal grabbing.
She is 8. We live in a house of mouse traps, all set to go off.
In the physical sense, she has low iron, ferron in her blood. She is a vegetarian. She takes melatonin once in a while to sleep. She is healthy, very very dry skin. She is well liked among the girls. She has sleep apnea. She sits up at night while asleep.
She comes home and wants to kill us, we love her, I love this child, I have taken the blows emotionally and on my body for years. I don't know what to do. Our lives crumble as our emotional well being erodes.
It becomes, how much do we have to take, endure for her, how far do we need to go? Sleep is my only respite. But then she climbs into my bed (we share a room, working on her sleeping in her own bed at the moment, we are earthy granola types).
Thanks for reading this, our sense of humor pulls us through but man my hands are shaking,
Rose