I feel like I’m losing my mind!
I have a son who turns 4 this month and every day is a battle from the second we wake up to when he goes to bed. Everything I do is not good enough for him and he doesn’t want to be at my house ever, he’s constantly asking to go to other places even if we’ve literally just got home then throws a complete meltdown which can last for hours. He’s ripped 2 doors of the hinges in rage, throws everything in his sight, hurts himself and me and destroys my house. It’s like a switch flipped when he turned 3 and turned him absolutely insane. He’s on the pathway for an autism/ADHD diagnosis but in the UK the waiting lists mean that I’m going to be waiting years for anything to be done.
Where is the support? How on earth are single parents supposed to cope with this kind of behaviour every. Single. Day. It’s impossible. I wake up absolutely exhausted every day because I know that it’s guaranteed that he’s going to start with the tantrums and destruction the second he doesn’t get his own way. I don’t know where my sweet little boy went, he’s like a completely different child now and I’m starting to feel like he’s going to be like this forever, I’m so tired and overwhelmed, I’m sick of shouting, I’m sick of him destroying my house, I’m sick of the constant battles, I just want it to stop.