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Suicidal ideation in a 'tween -- anyone seen something like this?
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<blockquote data-quote="Andy" data-source="post: 375649" data-attributes="member: 5096"><p>My difficult child was turning 11 years old when things started for him. He would have scary dreams about people/things trying to hurt him. He aquired self harm thoughts. He was fighting his body every day - his body would tell him to hurt himself (in ways which could lead to death) and sometimes to kill me. Like your difficult child, he felt comfortable telling me about it. It got to the point that he felt he could no longer fight this battle. He did not want to hurt himself or die (he has a faith in God that told him it would be a sin to kill himself).</p><p> </p><p>I took him to a children's psychiatric hospital and asked for an evaluation. He was admitted on the spot for two weeks.</p><p> </p><p>difficult child was given the diagnosis of deep anxiety but more importantly was given tools to use to start to control the thoughts. Medications helped also. We then worked through how to recognize the start of a bad thought and how to battle it at that point. The next step was to look for triggers. A very large one for my difficult child is lack of sleep. Sometimes there are not triggers - it just comes on. So, difficult child had a PRN for panic attacks. He used the variety of tools from breathing exercises to writing down how he saw things going/how he felt, to positive imagery. He worked very hard to master these tools.</p><p> </p><p>No matter what your difficult child is struggling with, he needs to get help to fight it. The tools he gets now will help throughout life. We have been told that there is a chance that difficult child could be faced with this again as he grows but hopefully his tools will keep it from getting out of hand like this first time.</p><p> </p><p>I would agree with taking him in for an evaluation to see what the doctor thinks. </p><p> </p><p>Be very thankful that he does bring these things to you. I counted that a blessing each day of our fight. What if he didn't tell me? I would never know why something had happened (like if he followed through with jumping out a moving car or jumping from the 3rd floor balcony of the Mall of America).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andy, post: 375649, member: 5096"] My difficult child was turning 11 years old when things started for him. He would have scary dreams about people/things trying to hurt him. He aquired self harm thoughts. He was fighting his body every day - his body would tell him to hurt himself (in ways which could lead to death) and sometimes to kill me. Like your difficult child, he felt comfortable telling me about it. It got to the point that he felt he could no longer fight this battle. He did not want to hurt himself or die (he has a faith in God that told him it would be a sin to kill himself). I took him to a children's psychiatric hospital and asked for an evaluation. He was admitted on the spot for two weeks. difficult child was given the diagnosis of deep anxiety but more importantly was given tools to use to start to control the thoughts. Medications helped also. We then worked through how to recognize the start of a bad thought and how to battle it at that point. The next step was to look for triggers. A very large one for my difficult child is lack of sleep. Sometimes there are not triggers - it just comes on. So, difficult child had a PRN for panic attacks. He used the variety of tools from breathing exercises to writing down how he saw things going/how he felt, to positive imagery. He worked very hard to master these tools. No matter what your difficult child is struggling with, he needs to get help to fight it. The tools he gets now will help throughout life. We have been told that there is a chance that difficult child could be faced with this again as he grows but hopefully his tools will keep it from getting out of hand like this first time. I would agree with taking him in for an evaluation to see what the doctor thinks. Be very thankful that he does bring these things to you. I counted that a blessing each day of our fight. What if he didn't tell me? I would never know why something had happened (like if he followed through with jumping out a moving car or jumping from the 3rd floor balcony of the Mall of America). [/QUOTE]
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