My carefree child developed generalised anxiety disorder
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One in ten children in the UK suffer from mental health problems.
This time last year, our happy-go-lucky third child departed for secondary school. Confident, carefree and smiley, she was eager to join her older sister.
Within months, she had developed generalised anxiety disorder (see below) and it’s only now, 12 months later, that we are on the road to getting our daughter back.
When you have a baby, you are overwhelmed with an overload of information. Feeding, sleeping, weaning, walking, potty training – the list of things to master is endless. But there’s info out there and it’s easy to chat, sometimes even to strangers, about what worked for them and what may help you and your baby.
But when your child gets bigger, and you are faced with something around which there is still a huge amount of stigma – it can be a lonely, frightening and altogether scarier affair.
This week Dame Sally Davies, England’s Chief Medical Officer, published her annual report. What she had to say rang ...
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