Intrusive thoughts are overwhelming DD

[Notcontent]

I recently posted that I think my 8 year old dd may have aspergers. I don't know. I have just started on the road of getting professional advice.

Something that has started happening in the last two months is that dd keeps saying she has worries about bad things she has done, usually at school - e.g. Saying something inappropriate to a child, snatching something, being given a warning by a teacher. She goes on and on about it. Often just before going to sleep. Tonight she said that if the worries don't get out of her head then she doesn't want to go away on holiday. This is a holiday at a place she adores!!!

Does anyone have experience of this kind of thing.

[KOKOagainandagain]

Ds1 had a bespoke NLP cd that included (i think) a story of a hippo (?) writing down and posting worries.

[KOKOagainandagain]

Characteristically he would only talk about these worries about things that had happened when he had chance to process them - just before going to sleep or as soon as he awoke. It's hard to understand the delay but the worries are there all the same and ime they are compounded by difficulties in understanding and also last longer - DS1 will still cry over an imagined slight - he thought I called him ... 'Fluffy bum' - when actually I said 'don't sit on the new stair carpet because you will get a fluffy bum' - 8 years after the event.

[Tinted]

Could you try Dolls for your DD as well as CBT and/or mindfulness for children?

[Tinted]

Sorry, this is the link I meant to post for the Worry Dolls
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worry_doll
The idea being that the child tells the doll the worry and the doll takes the worry away as the child sleeps. It's one of those things that either works or is rejected out of hand.

[Notcontent]

Thanks very much for all the helpful comments!