Hi my 7yr old son has recently started showing signs of fairly constant anxiety, mostly at school.

He's dyslexic and potentially has autistic traits.

Looking back it's something that's been bubbling for a while, but he clearly struggles to explain it and so it had manifested in different things he's appeared to have issues with, such as specific games at break times or certain lessons.

But as it's gotten worse I'm now realising that he just has this underlying sense of anxiety that I don't think he can explain other than to say he is scared of school, and when questioned about it he will point out some thing or someone, but that changes all the time.

Lately he has started to express this and will say he just can't explain how he feels but doesn't want to go to school.


It's so heartbreaking to not be able to understand and help him, or know the best course of action. School are good and have him in counselling each week with a kind of play therapist, but not sure it's having much effect. 

We're just coming to realisation we should speak to doctor, but wary of them just going down the medication route. 

Anyone with similar experience would love to hear your story