I'm sorry- I wrote all about her 'symptoms' that I left out the fact that she had both a stroke and a brain injury as an infant. As with most sufferers of a brain injury, behaviour is very much affected. Add to that all the trauma she has faced in her 7 short years- 2x open heart surgery, a tracheostomy, 70-80 general anaesthetics, numerous hospitalisations, 10 houses she has lived in while at home not to countthe various caregivers she has been with- 1 for 18 months, the death of her brother, her dad and me splitting (very acrimonious until recently), me in hospital for 4 months a couple of years ago, something like 1000km away from her etc etc etc. So she has been thru far too much already. She has also had sleep issues since the day she was born!!! At least she is now getting a decent amount of sleep, as well as getting to sleep very quickly. That is helping the mood out a lot. Thanks to all for your advice and thoughts. Roll on psychological input for her. Until then I will make the most of my slightly quieter girl for a while!