HI, my 17 yo daughter is having real problems with sleepiness. She cannot get up of a morning is always feeling sick in the mornings - this has been happening for several years now. She is having loads of time off school and is in Year 12 - final year of Senior High School. She is inattentive at school and has difficulties with memorising school work and always finds it hard to concentrate. We have tried several strategies such as same bedtime etcc but she complains of not being able to get to sleep even when she does go to bed at a reasonable hour. We have mentioned it to our dr but she just dismisses it and does not understand how problematic & debilitating it has become. Has anyone had a simile experience and is there anyting else I can do? Or is there another specialist that I can investigate?
Cheers from a very distraught and helpless mum! :-):-)
Cheers from a very distraught and helpless mum! :-):-)
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My daughter had the same problem it all started early though about second grade. As the years went on and the school atendance officer thought I was just a slack mom I started to think all sorts of things you know try and figure it out. She missed 52 days in third grade she was a rock in bed dead tierd I thought this is bad what if there was a fire thats how tierd she was, and I could not figure out why. She was allways concidered shy and I thought she just did not want to go but this was way past that. As this went on till high school I have had lots of nasty thoughts and looks from school officals towards me. I guess they thought I did not care this ran me ragged. I took her to the doctor several time and then insisted one day I was not going to leave utill they figured out what was wrong. I as a mom had my own ideas but wanted reasuerants. I had noticed her shyness elevating she allways had a stomach ache and felt sick well after 6 years and a councler we found she has generlized anxiety and depresion this can cause tierdness, mood swings lack of eating sort of zombie like just kinda floats around easily distracted and very sensitive and like I said many forms this list could go on and on. Wow when you hear this kinda of diagnosis your heart just sinks and you think what did I do wrong? But don't you need to stay strong for you kids. Treatment has been slow because now shes a teen and dosent want to hear what might be wrong and feels like an outcast. Anxeity can come in many differnent forms. I know no parent wants to hear a diagnosis of such problems but I decided not to try and fool my self/ not saying you are/ this was my feelings. I decided to treat it that way its not easy I hope when she gets older she will relize things. After all who does not have Anxiety in these days we are living. I tell my sweet girl that being a little shy is good because she is the one who is considering peoples feelings and is not one of the obnoxious ones who have to allways be seen or heard to feel good about them selfs ,and she is one who sees things before anyone else does.
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