This needs to be higher in the thread, you're very right. Experienced trauma and symptoms of PTSD at a young age are frequently misdiagnosed as behavioral disorders because it's more difficult to get the emotional symptoms from children. I assume it's because they don't have the language to talk about it. Based on this post alone, I would assume a trauma disorder is more likely than anything else.
And you did catch this very young, you've already made steps to get her - and the other children, and yourself - out of the situation, and steps to get treatment too. You're doing everything right. It's a rough patch, to be sure, but you're doing well. You're there, and you care, and that is going to be the best thing you do for her.
Procrastn8ngArtst t1_izeu5om wrote
Reply to comment by WateryTart_ndSword in TIFU by not paying attention to my daughters mental health sooner, by [deleted]
This needs to be higher in the thread, you're very right. Experienced trauma and symptoms of PTSD at a young age are frequently misdiagnosed as behavioral disorders because it's more difficult to get the emotional symptoms from children. I assume it's because they don't have the language to talk about it. Based on this post alone, I would assume a trauma disorder is more likely than anything else.
And you did catch this very young, you've already made steps to get her - and the other children, and yourself - out of the situation, and steps to get treatment too. You're doing everything right. It's a rough patch, to be sure, but you're doing well. You're there, and you care, and that is going to be the best thing you do for her.