Hello,
I have a 13 year old daughter. Last year, we finally managed to got her onto an emotional counselling programme, and have also scheduled her to see a paediatrician. The process is agonizingly slow, and in the mean time my wife and I continue to experience a lot of worry and anxiety. We know that there is something wrong with our daughter and we could really do with some help.
It seems that, no sooner have we dealt with one problem than another surfaces. For example, my daughter frequently chews paper and also her clothes. We've just about msanaged to sort that out, through constant prompting. However, tonight, we found that she'd shaved some of her eyebrows off.
Although we've tried so hard to expand our daughter's world, by introducing hobbies etc, she resists this and tries to keep her world very small. At the moment, her life revolves around compiling photographs on the computer of various male actors she fancies. Also collecting DVDs of every film they've starred in. If a DVD gets so much as a little scratch, she gets very stressed by it.
I'd appreciate any advice on this forum. For example, how to get a diagnosis (it seems extraordinarily difficult). Also, do things get easier if/when a diagnosis is made?
