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Hi,

I'm really hoping someone can offer some advice. My youngest child, a daughter has just turned 13. In the last 6 months or so she has turned into the child from hell. She is refusing to go to school, stealing money and cigs, drinking, taking pills (I think, as she took some of my medication that is a controlled drug), and possibly self harming. Today my eldest son came home and told me she is now bullying someone at school. I had hoped in the early days that this was a phase and she was copying others but I have since found out that she is a leader not a follower. She has been in hospital as she drank so much it almost killed her. The police have brought her home on more than one occassion. Then last week she turned up at school drunk, so I was informed not by the school but the education dept. I'm at a loss as to what to do, I ground her, she jumps out of the window. I take her phone, she steals it back when I'm asleep. I try to talk to her and she swears at me. The last couple of days have been hell, she asked to go out I said no as she had refused to go to school. She launched a cup at me then threw other things at my door, breaking all of them. I have no idea what to do. I have contacted our local cams dept (they are child phycologists) they have not got back to me dispite several calls. I have tried social services, they to have not got back to me. I feel there is nothing out there that can help and I'm terrified that she will really hurt herself or someone else. I feel as though I'm going insane and can't think what I've done to make her treat people like this. I have 2 other children, both boys and older, it is effecting all of us. Any advice is welcome.