My Beautiful Boy

Do you ever feel like that?  You have a couple of reasonably good days and you just start to feel like you’re getting somewhere and then things just take a nose dive for the worse again.  It’s school holidays here and I must admit the kids bedtimes have been all over the place and I think they are all a bit tired and I’m sure Coreys behavior is 10 times worse when he’s tired, as with all kids I guess.

We had a terrible, terrible day today.  Derek had to work this morning which he doesn’t usually do on Saturdays and boy was I glad he only worked half the day.  I was in tears by the time he got home, it is just so incredibly hard when things just seem to get worse and worse instead of better.

I have given up on the gluten free diet and I

I’m not sure whether I have done the wrong thing by giving up, but it was just too hard.  I was really starting to think that sugar was effecting him but today was really bad and I don’t think he had any sugar today.  I am really at a loss to know if there is anything like food causing his behavior it is just so hard to pick.

I don’t know if I already wrote about it but someone suggested to try fish oil tablets and so I went out a bought a bottle of 125 capsules and within a week the kids had eaten the lot of them.  I was giving them the recommended 2 tablets a day and they were on a high cubpoard in the kitchen (not that that stops them) and they got to them at some stage and ate them all.  Not one of them would own up to it either.

School starts in a couple of days and I know that is going to be a nightmare.  He is always worse once he’s had a break, I can almost guarantee that he wont go on Monday.  I am still working my way through the Fed Up book although I got behind with it as I lost if for a couple of weeks.  I searched the entire house and couldn’t for the life of me find it but eventually I did under my bed – I have no idea how it got there.  Anyway, that book has a list of preservatives to avoid in foods so I’m thinking I may go down that road of avoiding the preservatives listed in the book and see how we go there.  I am also going to cut down the amount of sugar.  The psychiatrist said that the diabetic diet is a really good one to be on and it is one that everyone can benefit from and talked about how a healthy diet and lifestyle can all play a role in behaviour and anxiety.

We had an appointment with Dr Callary last week which Corey wouldn’t even go to.  He went to the clinic but stayed in the waiting room he wouldn’t go into to talk to Dr Callary, so it was just a session on my own with him.  He did bring up medication but I really don’t want to go down that road if I can avoid it, although I have to admit that his behavior lately and in particular today makes me think that might be our only option.

I am trying some EFT at the moment on myself and a little on him.  I think it’s helped me a bit but I can’t see any changes with it in him as yet.  I will keep trying though, at least if it can help me then that might rub off on him a bit – you never know.

Well take care and thanks for reading
Sheryl

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