Dd has been in therapy for about 2-2 1/2 years for what has been called anxiety disorder. We all thought she was doing well and had moved away from the raging and panic attacks. She is now almost 12, and yesterday had a very severe episode of . . . I'm not even sure what to call it. She was basically accusing herself of having done something really awful (I don't really want to say what) to another person. When the other person was asked about it, that person denied it vehemently. We called a crisis session with dd's therapist, who believes that nothing actually happened -- but rather that dd, feeling guilt over an original action, had morphed that into something much worse and BELIEVED that it had actually happened.
Immediately after the "confession", dd was hysterical, screaming, pacing, and sobbing -- we were very concerned for her physical safety. Within a half hour or so of this event, dd was what I call manic -- talking very rapidly, jumping topics, nearly oblivious to the bomb she had dropped on us. Dh and I looked at each other and thought, WTF?
Dh's family has a strong history of mental illness in the females, though primarily undiagnosed. We believe both sisters have bi-polar or schizophrenia, along with his mother, grandmother, aunt and at least one female cousin. Because their conditions are undiagnosed and untreated, we feel they are a threat to our family so we do not associate with them and dh is fuzzy on the onset details.
Is there a pattern of onset for these types of disorders? I had heard that puberty can trigger this, and dd has developed quite a bit over the last 3 months or so. Does this sound like something along those lines?
Immediately after the "confession", dd was hysterical, screaming, pacing, and sobbing -- we were very concerned for her physical safety. Within a half hour or so of this event, dd was what I call manic -- talking very rapidly, jumping topics, nearly oblivious to the bomb she had dropped on us. Dh and I looked at each other and thought, WTF?
Dh's family has a strong history of mental illness in the females, though primarily undiagnosed. We believe both sisters have bi-polar or schizophrenia, along with his mother, grandmother, aunt and at least one female cousin. Because their conditions are undiagnosed and untreated, we feel they are a threat to our family so we do not associate with them and dh is fuzzy on the onset details.
Is there a pattern of onset for these types of disorders? I had heard that puberty can trigger this, and dd has developed quite a bit over the last 3 months or so. Does this sound like something along those lines?
