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02-09-2019 07:45 PM
02-09-2019 07:45 PM
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sounds tough atm. I do hope seeing the dr has helped your daughter.
im not one for social events to so can relate to your daughter on that level.
im one who runs and hides or leaves early or hides in the corner 😏
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02-09-2019 08:14 PM
02-09-2019 08:14 PM
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Yeah @outlander. She does find social settings exhausting.
Turns out she's got a bacterial secondary infection. (Sinusitis) So she is genuinely unwell, and is now on medication to clear that up. She so often goes to doctors or the hospital with "aliments" which either test negative, or are reported as being much worse than medical examinations would suggest they are, so it's hard to tell when she really is sick. She seems to be unconsciously reliant on other people caring for her, which is very difficult to balance.
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02-09-2019 08:18 PM
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02-09-2019 09:21 PM
02-09-2019 09:21 PM
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@outlander, she certainly has anxiety. A psychiatrist has diagnosed Factitious Disorder, which is pretty much somatic (psychological not physical in origin) pain and illness at an unconscious level. i.e. she has no self insight into what's happening, and genuinely believes the pain or illness is physical. She even really experiences the pain/illness, but it's like the signal is working in reverse, with it originating in her brain and being felt in her body, rather than bodily pain sending the signal to her brain.
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03-09-2019 09:18 AM
03-09-2019 09:18 AM
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I do hope that she will be able to learn more about her condition and manage it abit better
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03-09-2019 09:45 AM
03-09-2019 09:45 AM
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Yeah @outlander, it sounds like yours is much more connected to anxiety. Being able to see what's happening is such a big help towards dealing with it. And that's a big part of why we're not seeing improvement with our Older Daughter. Until she can see what's happening, it's not possible to do anything much in the way of therapy. CBT for example involves "cognition".
Something I've found is that anxiety definitely increases the perception of pain. Things that might not be too awful normally gets caught up in a kind of feedback loop, not helped by the automatic tensing up that happens under stress. And yeah, another thing with our girl is that she frequently seems to overstate her pain levels. The level of pain (out of 10) that she says she's feeling doesn't match up with how she's reacting. I don't think I could carry on a conversation of any sort while experiencing 8-10/10 pain, let alone an unrelated conversation about how her latest craft project is progressing. That's sort of "having trouble speaking" level pain??
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03-09-2019 09:49 AM
03-09-2019 09:49 AM
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ah I see, its hard to determine what sort of pain she really has is she over states. I have had some pretty severe pain and I can barely get any words out let alone hold conversations.
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03-09-2019 10:39 AM
03-09-2019 10:39 AM
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@outlander, I can't see ACT working because she feels like too many things are outsie of her control, including and especially her SH behaviour.
I could see the possibilities with EMDR, but again, there's a lot of things that she would class as traumatic, so going that way would be a very very long process and traumatic in itself. Maybe down the track, but I don't know if she'd handle it at present.
We're all in the uncomfortable position of really not knowing how to move forward unless she starts to take ownership and control of herself, even in small ways.
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03-09-2019 10:48 AM
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03-09-2019 10:56 AM
03-09-2019 10:56 AM
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DBT might be closer to the mark.