After approximately 2 and a half years, our 14 year old daughter is continuing to struggle. It took far too long to access appropriate professional based help from the RCH and other services to start helping our daughter and our family with her school refusal and anxiety. The primary school was slow to help and was piece meal in the end. With the years passing by the anxiety and poor self esteem from falling out of life and entering teenage years without friends,a social connection, denial and anixety and fear about trying harder than ever before to be open minded about seeking quality support from our GP and youth professionals, things don't seem to really shifting for Her. Such a critical stage of life for Her and am now extremely concerned about the future,her development and sense of purpose in life. We all feel isolated from friends and have lost some along the way, while trying to embrace any positve opportunity to chip away at this vicious cycle of anxiety,avoidance of school and now most social events or opportunities.... What ideas do people have to offer to help in such a situation? Youth services have tried,and walked away because the lass is now too anxious to take the first steps towards freeing herself from this complex and difficult situation ... View more