Hi I know that this was originally a November post but I also have two daughter who do the same sorts of things. Aged 10 and 8, they are two very sensitive lil beings so every now and then we introduced mental health days where they could stay home from school and just hang out..say once a month. Its worked well for us, that combined with special Mummy and or Daddy time where we do something just the two of us. It seemed to give them more control of how they were feeling and stopped the trying to fake being sick thing happening. HTH

Jo