Hi
Thanks for the update.
Did your son do the art therapy at Mind?
Try and encourage keeping in contact with friends, even on line.
Your son will need help with anxiety itself before dealing with school. Is there any chance you can home school and connect with any local home schooling groups?
I can't offer specific advice but I'd be seeing if you can find someone who deals with anxiety and cognitive behaviour therapy and also consider medication for anxiety to perhaps help ease your son forward. Keep encouraging him to interact with others and if he is housebound, try the drives and eventually a drive where he gets out and gets a drink at petrol station etc. It might sound simple vut when our kids get stuck in the house it is hard for them to re connect with the outside world, let alone school.
Try and keep up his self esteem by doing things with him inside or outside the home that doesn't mention school. School education is nt everything. Home schooling or on line schooling seems to be the answer for some kids despite the isolation. What the professionals want is our kids to go back to school and have a normal life but nine times out of ten it is not normal as they still miss school and feel isolated and as a resul their self esteem plummets.
It must be tough for you. If your son seems ok in himself, that is a good sign.
Let us know how things go.
Take care,
Linda