Hi, my son has mental health problems and has been under the Early intervention team for a couple of years now. He is calmer with a depot injection which he gets every two weeks but he still has his problems. He becomes nervous surrounded by people, for example, on a full bus, he will start to laugh to himself. He is very vulnerable and he needs alot of support from me. His depot injections are aripropazale and sertraline. He is very childlike for his age. Autistic traits have been suggested and he is on a waiting list but he was absolutely fine at school. All of this started in recent years when he had horrendous anger outbursts, involving smashing things etc. Has anybody else experienced similar. I always wonder about his future.
Janet,
the routine and structure of school may have enabled him to cope and mask. When he left school and the structure that provided things might have started to unravel. A diagnosis of autism may enable him to get the support he needs.
Melly1