My lovely DD1, 9.5, physically v. ahead of class mates, has been having what I guess are hormonal surges every month or so for a few months. A day of crying, not knowing what is wrong, feeling awful, and then it passes. Yesterday, after crying for about an hour in car (bad timing, long journey back from the GPs), she told me she wanted to hurt herself as a distraction from the way she was feeling. We talked about healthy (sport), safe (tv, a good book, going into the garden for a shout), and unhealthy (self-harm etc. but I only alluded to this) ways of dealing with the way she was feeling and ended up having a cuddle on sofa infront of horrible histories, but I'm really in shock.
She's usually very calm and, I guess, 'together', and she has quite good insight into her mood swings but she's so young and do far ahead of her friends that I don't think she can really talk to them about all this. How can I help her?
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turningitaround · 13/05/2013 07:26
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