Good morning. It is Friday, 8:30 am and my mom came to the house and took our 6-year-old to school since DH has had to leave early this week for work. Both Ewen and Amira are still asleep. I'm sitting in bed on the laptop, letting them sleep because Amira was up in the night a couple of times and I want Ewen to have lots of time not twitching, which is only when he sleeps. He did fall asleep last night at 9:45 though so I think now we are going on 11 hours! That is good since he was up the night before at 3am and didn't go back to sleep after that. Both kids will be home with me today too since I told Ewen he could start school on Monday, and Amira's tutor's daughter is sick. So I won't be getting much work done I suppose today. Ewen has CBT this afternoon too which is good. I don't know if bringing down his medicine dose to 3.5 ML's will ease his tics or not. I look up sudden panic disorder online and I can never find a match of exactly what happen...
What do you do when your brilliant, confident, happy 10-year-old suddenly plunges into a frightening downward spiral of debilitating panic attacks? This blog is a mother's journey about a family working it's way back from a crisis, to some kind of happy normalcy.