Hi
My son started having panic attacks at school and then wouldn’t go to school. He couldn’t get out of bed and he cried when I tried to get him out. He stopped being able to go to sleep. He never brushes his teeth unless he is going somewhere and he doesn’t like showering. Does this sound like the start of a mental illness to you? Anyone out there start to get these sort of symptoms early? He is nearly 13.
Any help appreciated.
H
No it doesn’t.
Please don’t make him think so.
If you’re in doubt, take him to a psychiatrist. If it’s prodromal it’s good they catch it earlier.
Might just be a normal teenage kid reaction though, the not showering and not brushing his teeth.
Well my psychosis started when I was 12-13, and then so did my son’s.
That’s all I can say. But I’m glad you’re paying attention and hope you’ll get him some help. I would think the first step would be to talk to his teachers at school and see if anything is going on there for him to have resistance to going…? Talk with his pediatrician and then go from there.
Good luck and God bless!
If I was your parent when you were age 13 and took you to a doctor and he said sz. I would have called the doctor the nut.
Sz. Doesn’t manifest til 20s.
That’s not always true. I had symptoms when I was 7, and again when I was 14.
Character flaws personality defects no proof a child is schizophrenic
I have an autoimmune disease. I had panic attacks. Stress related. It may not be Sz but psychosis symptoms. Talk to a pdoc . The moderators typically say folks can’t be diagnosed here on the internet.
We’re not trying to prove anything here Daze, but not dismiss it either. We can’t diagnose him, we can help his mother.
One of the best ways of parenting is knowing what to overlook.
What to let change happen.
If a parent comes here about a young person I automatically feel the parent has no ground with the child and wants remedy.
Don’t cut off the kid’s legs because he refused to walk.
That’s what my mom did with me and look how well that turned out.
I’m not looking for an argument with you Daze, this stops right here. You have no authority over motherhood to say “No, overlook it, it’s probably nothing”.
So you wanted on meds at age 13
I don’t know if I had gotten on meds or not, but my teens and young life would very much benefit from me having my dx sooner and dealing with it, instead of selfmedicating with booze and drugs.
Yes, actually, I prefer the meds.
Sz has tendencies early that are very natural and normal compared to others
for instance the person prone to developing an illness later is driven to smoke pot that causes it.
What happens too often with overly critical parents who want to correct everything is a child who hates them and hates himself and actually does end up with problems.
maybe he’s just fed up with school or maybe he was getting bullied, it could be a lot of things, have you tried having a talk with him to try and find out whats up,
maybe try and empathise with him and ask him if he is feeling ok, ask why he’s not going to school and spending time with his friends, ask him if there is anything you can do or if there is anything he wants to tell you, keep it light,
its all i can think of is just try and talk to him, if that doesnt work then maybe be a bit more firm with him,
i havent ever cared for children before though so i am just going on what i knew as a kid, i had a mum and dad though and it was like good cop/bad cop lol it worked though i guess but later i developed sz, no fault to my mum or dad though.
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Worse than that is parents that overlook their kids mental health issues.
@hippogal I’m sorry your thread took a wrong turn, you should definitely take him to a counselor, at least.
Hi all
My son has a psychologist and a pediatrician working with him and I guess if they think he has a chance of a mental illness they’ll pick it up. I simply wondered if this was how anyone elses illness started, I am not jumping to conclusions about it at all. For me I had no obvious signs of the illness starting apart from a few voices…then paranoia and voices immediately after my second son was born. Please don’t worry @Daze I am not putting him on meds unless I am really certain and have a diagnosis from a pdoc and so far I haven’t been referred to one. It may still turn out he is just having problems coping with school.
H
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