Been a while....

First of I am sorry about the long delay between posts but have made a decision to update more regular from now on, just that things were going pretty well.

Well what a year... what has been happening quite a lot. Chris had been back at school full time since term 3 with a part time teacher aid. At the beginning of term 3 he decided he wanted to go to school alone, which was not a good move, he started deteriorating and beginning of term 4 we reinstated her.

Chris's tics up until the last couple of weeks have been hardly there, you would not even notice them. Just lately in the last couple of weeks his facial tics have returned. Right now he is not doing well after such a positive year, he has been having a hard time at school with bullying and being bullied.... and things have got pretty bad. He has been having a few night terrors again and his sleeping patterns are all out of kilter. He has also started self harming again and not just at home but also the school.

We are really beginning to think Chris may have bipolar. He fits the bill perfectly and his mood swings are so up and down and he changes so quick, he is going through changes of depression then he will hit a high. Right now he is going through a state of depression and like I said above he is self harming again, he is talking about wanting to commit suicide as he feels it would be better than living right now. Needless to say we are keeping a very close eye on him right now.

His OCD is still bad but has not got any worse, well most days anyway. Next year he is going to college and he is going to Otumoetai College to there Special Needs Unit, where they have like 1 teacher and 2 teacher aids to about 8 students. I think this will be perfect for him he has had 2 transition days and really enjoyed them. He is still going to respite which is great and his High and Complex needs application has been stalled a long story.....

Anyway just a quick update for now and I am hoping to be back at least once a week from now on :-)