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How to Help Your Child Overcome Anxiety

February 18, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

Sometimes children act as if they don’t have a care in the world, and other times they may be overwhelmed with anxiety. Although children are not presented with the stresses of adulthood, they do feel anxiety in the same way. Solving these issues is not something to be taken lightly.

How Children Form Anxieties

It may help to understand why children form anxieties in the first place. Perhaps you can change certain aspects of their care that will make it less likely for them to develop anxieties in the future.

Children can become anxious and fearful in situations where they’re taught to feel that way. They’re also very intuitive and can pick up on the emotions of others. If you’re acting fearful and afraid in a certain situation, they may learn to have the same behavior without even realizing it.

Children can also learn anxiety from media sources such as television, movies, or video games. For example, TV shows and video games that are meant for older children or adults often contain scenes of suspense, horror or violence that can severely frighten a young child. As a result, they can develop many anxieties from it. [Read more...]

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Child Anxiety Attacks

September 20, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Just like adults, children can also experience fear, anxiety and apprehension. These are normal emotional experiences that a person feels regardless of age. However, if anxiety becomes irrational, recurring and severe, and anxiety attacks happen without any apparent reason, and the reaction is disproportionate to the problem at hand, it can be a cause of concern. This is why on the first signs of problem, have your child get proper diagnosis by a health professional to be able to rule out any possible causes and determine the right treatment to be applied.

Since anxiety attack is a type of anxiety disorder, it is important to know what happens to a child who is suffering from such disorder. To be able to identify it, here are the following symptoms:

• Frequent feeling of fear and panic
• Bed wetting
• Tantrums and excessive crying
• Fear of making mistakes
• Fear of getting embarrassed
• Avoidance of certain activities such as school event and summer camps
• Nightmares and night terrors [Read more...]

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It Might Not Be Hyperactivity

September 28, 2008 By admin Leave a Comment

Sometimes children get fidgety, jittery and they don’t want to be away from mom and dad. Some of that is normal, of course, and part of growing up. But excessive anxiety is not normal and needs to be addressed. Kids are unfortunately frequently diagnosed as having something else like hyperactivity or ADD. That’s because they have trouble concentrating in school, talk rapidly and have trouble socializing. These are the same symptoms of anxiety.

The point of telling you this is so when you talk to the school counselor or teacher, you want to do a lot of investigating. Anxiety has causes even if they may be complicated. Your child’s anxiety may be due to a problem with another student and he or she doesn’t want to tell anyone. Or it could be they’re having emotional problems about school or home. It’s too easy to label a child with ADD today. When that happens the real problem is not solved when it could be anxiety.

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