[Vicky.]

I know theres a lot of parents on here, and I am hoping (sorry!) that some of you might have been through this before. And as such might be able to help.

My daughter..appears to have been possessed by a demon. I am not even exaggerating either. All day everything is a huge tantrum, endless screeching for seemingly nothing. She used to sleep fine on a night and now we have a breakdown that quite literally lasts hours. last night we had a bunch of really high pitched screaming that woke James up (who is sleeping fine) and eventually she was making herself retch with all of the kicking off and we seemed to have no option but to bring her back downstairs...where she climbed into her carseat and dropped off immediately...woke a few times through the night but was relatively easy to settle. But this is NO good longterm.

I have no idea why this has happened. Nothing helps, not us lying with her, cuddling her, leaving her alone, sitting in her room but not near her, nothing at all.

It just seems to be screaming, all day, most of the night, with short breaks of maybe 20 mins or so inbetween it all. It is affecting James, as he sees her whining all of the time and copies...and I swear I am at the end of my tether with her...I am SO close to snapping it is unbelievable, and I know that would be the wrong thing to do but come on, its been over a week of this now and nothing is helping at all. Its got to the point where I have asked my mother to take her for a few days as I really can't deal anymore, I am still recovering from an operation and I feel on the brink of a breakdown to be quite honest. Me and Gavin both have constant headaches, James is becoming a nightmare because of what hes learning off his sister, and its just ****ing ridiculous.


To make everything worse, our health visitor arrived yesterday and was moaning about a bit of mess...saying that its a sign of neglect. I have today put in a formal complaint about her and have requested no further health visitor involvement.

So yeah, any suggestions would be appreciated greatly.