My son tried to kill himself yesterday. He is only 16.
Having taken an enormous number of nurofen during the day, he calmly came home and "decided to have an early night" and took himself upstairs to bed. It was only because a friend of his called us during the evening that we found out what had happened, and thankfully got him into hospital.
He has been suffering from depression for a few years now and cutting himself with increasing regularity, and now seems to have hit rock bottom. We were very careful never to have too much medication in the house for fear something like this may happen, but he is now of an age where he simply made a few visits to a few pharmacies, and collected what he wanted.
He had seen a psychiatrist in recent weeks, and had been referred for a course of CBT, for which we were still waiting for an appointment.
He is now seeing someone in a day or so.
I wondered whether anyone has any experience of something similar with teenage boys? Does CBT really make a difference, or is this the way that he will be now for the rest of his life?
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LittleMissWobbleBelly · 17/04/2013 14:38
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