3 year old scared of her imaginary friend. what do i do?

[ifyouseeher]

My daughter has recently gotten some imaginary friends. I wouldnt be concerned about it but she often gets very frightened by one in particular and spends a lot of her time being clingy as a result. Sometimes she can sit for as long as an hour talking to him before becoming very agitated, shouting at him for pushing her and bursting into tears. She also puts on a completely different voice sometimes and tells me to go away, even if I'm minding my own business. She's become afraid of the dark since the arrival of her "friends" and I'm not really sure how to manage this. i dont let her watch television at all and she will only watch very specific childrens programmes when she isnt at my house so i dont know where she could have picked this up from.

i'm just not sure how long i can carry on watching her be so obviously in distress so any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[psychicRod]

Her  imaginary friends are spirits i'm sensing that there's 3 of them 2 females and an older male child.
The male is the one she is scared or he appears to have been a little sick and twisted before death like a mild case of psychotic bipolar.
id suggest to you to either bring in a light worker and have them ill say her as thats who i feel the light worker will be, have her get them to go to the light i don't feel you will need a minister as they aren't evil they have just not been able to cross over for some reason.
non believers will see this and carry on but spirits are very real and kids animals and psychics like me can sense and see them.

[Andres47]

Yes, these imaginary friends may be spirits. I don't know what to tell you but prob keep an eye on your child. Perhaps consult w a priest. I would not let my child sleep alone. Very scary situation.

[Omgo]

I don't have children to give you advise but my ex moved in with me in 2008 and her them 3 year old said something the following morning after his first night there about an old man and a baby bothering him in his room and I chalked it off as his imagination. I was not a believer but after living in a home infested with ghosts for 5 years I have stories for days and I have come face to face with them. All of my friends and family who did not believe me are now 100% they exist. I lived there for 1 year completely alone and I was never afraid until one night I almost crapped myself and ended up sleeping in my truck. My exes son would have mysterious marks on his arms and legs and he would always say it was the old man. If I hadn't seen for myself that the old man was real I would have thought my ex was beating him.

[KatiePlatie]

It sounds like a hallucination to me! It could be related to seizures. I'd bring her to A&E to have her checked over. My son had been hallucinating for a while when he was younger. It was benign, just to do with the fast growing brain. It's also related to autism and ADHD and can ever be bought up by sleep apnea. Definitely get her checked.

[Ace1069]

I also agree about other worldly. When I could hear my then 2 year old daughter's imaginary friend speaking to her in a distinctly adult voice, it was time to move. No more imaginary friends after that. I find the pinching leaving marks incredibly disturbing.

[FaeryeWolfMom]

I don't know if either of you are checking back in for answers to this thread, but two possibilities came to mind. One is that their "friends" are more than imaginary and could quite possibly be otherworldly even if you yourself do not believe in that sort of thing. The second, and there have been more and more cases of children being diagnosed younger and younger, that they may schizophrenic. I would suggest an appointment with a therapist that specializes in it to rule it out and hopefully discover what is really going on.

I wish you both good luck and please let us know how things turn out.

[Ajsmum]

I know this is an old thread but did you ever figure anything out? My sons imaginary friend is the same. He's always fighting and arguing with 'Her', it keeps him awake at night, he sometimes cries because 'she' said something mean and now 'she' has started hurting him. I'm really worried by his state of mind, he's nearly 5.

[ifyouseeher]

does anyone have any suggestions? today she had several pinch bruises on her arm that match her little fingers that she swears are the work of 'Pinny'. I can't understand why she should be acting out like this. she gets 98% of my time and attention, i'm not sure what else i can do.

[ifyouseeher]

we do a lot of roleplay, princess dress up etc plus i also do a lot of colours, shapes and numbers games with her. she 'helps' with household chores as well. :)

she has 4 friends who often come to play but i've noticed that she's definitely more comfortable around adults. she can be very shy around children her own age and when they start to invade her personal space she lashes out, which is why i have to watch her vigilantly when she's playing.

[margypops]

What does she do at home for play if there is no TV do you read a lot to her .It is possible that more sociable interaction would help, has she friends who come to play ?

[ifyouseeher]

she goes to stay and play, but even then i'm constantly nearby so i'm monitoring her interaction with other children (she can be quite aggressive with other children, so i have to be on hand to step in.) i know that its pretty normal for children to have imaginary friends, i'm just concerned about where her head's at if "he" is so aggressive with her.

[margypops]

I would not feed into it she may be playing to the audience, so let her say what she wants to .it may be a god idea to speak to her pediatrician and see what he thinks ,Does she go to day care or pre school ?