Hi
I'm Laura, I have 5 children.
Harley 14 (lives with father)
Isla 9 (lives with father)
Max 5
Archie 4
Logan 2
The 3 youngest boys live at home with my partner Lee ( their father). He also has 2 older children who live with their mother (Jamie 16, Katie 14).
Me and my partner have for the last 4 years had to deal with social care, police, rubbish landlord and mental health problems.
There is a massive story behind this but will try keep it short.
Basically me and Lee have had a few arguments in the past 6 years we're police have been called on 3 occasions because me and Lee when we argue get quite loud. 1 occasion was just last week. We now believe its because we may have ASD and or ADHD.
Our 2 boys max and archie have both been diagnosed with ASD after a 3 year struggle with social care and "neglect".
Regrettably we have made some massive mistakes ourselves turning to drugs through bad times (crack/cocaine) but we worked well with everyone who supported us but through social care doing their job incorrectly I lost my 2 eldest children to their father.
As I'm sure alot of your parents/individuals have come across these symptoms and said to yourself omg that's what I've got or I do that aswell.
Well that's very much myself and Lee.
We have been on lots of different anti depressants for anxiety and depression but after a while they stop working. More so with Lee.
The GP can see that Lee has ADHD and has started the process of the referral but it was only last Dec.
We got signed off social care in 2021(1st "domestic abuse"), had them again in 2022 for 3 months (2nd time) and got no help and now because of our police call out the other day means we are going to get social care again.
For 2 whole years (2019 - 2021) they betrayed us big time and since then me and my partner have been a mess.
We have had to be strong to fight for our boys and prove them wrong and now my mental health is getting worse.
especially with the boys behaviours ( swearing tantrums, fighting, throwing, sensory needs etc).
Me and Lee need our diagnosis so we can be on the right medication so we can be in a better place to parent our boys better. ( Not that we doing a bad job but it can be stressful)
Is there any advise out there or anybody in a similar
I do apologise for the long introduction lol, this is the first time I've actually spoke up due to my current anxiety issue.
I welcome any questions too
I'm Laura, I have 5 children.
Harley 14 (lives with father)
Isla 9 (lives with father)
Max 5
Archie 4
Logan 2
The 3 youngest boys live at home with my partner Lee ( their father). He also has 2 older children who live with their mother (Jamie 16, Katie 14).
Me and my partner have for the last 4 years had to deal with social care, police, rubbish landlord and mental health problems.
There is a massive story behind this but will try keep it short.
Basically me and Lee have had a few arguments in the past 6 years we're police have been called on 3 occasions because me and Lee when we argue get quite loud. 1 occasion was just last week. We now believe its because we may have ASD and or ADHD.
Our 2 boys max and archie have both been diagnosed with ASD after a 3 year struggle with social care and "neglect".
Regrettably we have made some massive mistakes ourselves turning to drugs through bad times (crack/cocaine) but we worked well with everyone who supported us but through social care doing their job incorrectly I lost my 2 eldest children to their father.
As I'm sure alot of your parents/individuals have come across these symptoms and said to yourself omg that's what I've got or I do that aswell.
Well that's very much myself and Lee.
We have been on lots of different anti depressants for anxiety and depression but after a while they stop working. More so with Lee.
The GP can see that Lee has ADHD and has started the process of the referral but it was only last Dec.
We got signed off social care in 2021(1st "domestic abuse"), had them again in 2022 for 3 months (2nd time) and got no help and now because of our police call out the other day means we are going to get social care again.
For 2 whole years (2019 - 2021) they betrayed us big time and since then me and my partner have been a mess.
We have had to be strong to fight for our boys and prove them wrong and now my mental health is getting worse.
especially with the boys behaviours ( swearing tantrums, fighting, throwing, sensory needs etc).
Me and Lee need our diagnosis so we can be on the right medication so we can be in a better place to parent our boys better. ( Not that we doing a bad job but it can be stressful)
Is there any advise out there or anybody in a similar
I do apologise for the long introduction lol, this is the first time I've actually spoke up due to my current anxiety issue.
I welcome any questions too