7 yo female with asperger's, visions of decaptitated body parts

Hi Forum,

I'm hoping someone can present me with some ideas of a remedy for my daughter. Her name is Sophie. She is a much wanted child, the 5th pregnancy after 4 miscarriages.

She is 7, born in August, was born by emergency c-section. Has struggled with gastric reflux and constipation her whole life. She was breastfed for 21 months and also drank toddler milk. She is very attached to her bottle still, and it is often the only way we can get her to sleep because of the visions she has.

She was medicated as an infant for reflux and has taken medication for constipation. She currently takes Zantac 50mg for reflux.

She also takes 6 mg melatonin for sleep. She has never slept, often going 72 hours without sleep. She has had a lot of osteopathic work done.

She is kept awake by vivid images in her head of body parts, often a decapitated head, bloody lying in a toilet bowl. It can be any body part, often it is just a huge eye, or a foot separated from it's body. It is always bloody.

This prevents her from toileting as normal and may contribute to her constipation as she will not spend long periods of time in the toilet.

She cannot be alone because of the visions and because she often feels someone is behind her.

She loves children and dogs. She loves to draw, and is very advanced art wise for a 7 year old. She has excellent penmanship. She loves playing Barbies and being mum to her dolls.

She is terrified of spiders, be it drawn or real. She is of good humour, enjoys slapstick comedy, loves to laugh. But she is struck with such terror she often cannot make eye contact or speak. She said often her head hurts because of the visions. She actually calls them 'visions' herself, so that is her choice of word.

She prefers to draw the things she sees and write down the words than to speak them. However, she is upset having to discuss them as you can imagine it is terrifying to such a young child.

She needs to be held after speaking about the visions or drawing them. She likes to rock gently, as though she were an infant.

She does not have the visions at school when she is in the company of her friends, but at home is the worst.

She was treated by an experienced homeopath for her reflux and non sleeping as a baby, however nothing really worked because we couldn't speak to her so just went by symptoms we saw.

I do not feel happy with the homeopaths available to me at the moment. So, rather than anxious mum looking up remedies, I thought I'd turn to the wisdom of others.

She has a gap between her front teeth, freckles and often wears glasses with a slight magnification for reading. She loves Pepsi/Coke, chocolate, sushi and buttered popcorn. She likes having very cold drinks.
She really dislikes mint and onion.

She is a perfectionist and loves to be read to, cuddles and visiting the mall.

This photo is from a couple days ago.

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