Children can experience the same anxiety disorders that adults experience. In fact, because of stress from school, social pressures and extra curricular activities children can be especially vulnerable to developing anxiety disorders.
Besides that, there is another type of anxiety children can experience. This is called Separation Anxiety. This occurs when children experience a lot of anxiety when separated from their parents. They may be worried about the health and safety of their parents, have trouble sleeping alone, experience extreme homesickness, and get sad or depressed when separated. Separation anxiety can be developed anytime before age 18, but it’s most common for seven to nine year olds.
Besides separation anxiety, children can also experience anxiety related to school. Every kid doesn’t want to go to school once in a while, but when they regularly insist on staying home, they may be experiencing anxiety. Common causes are:
- Separation anxiety
- Stress about performance
- Anxieties about making friends
- Fear of teachers or other students
- Using school bathrooms
- Being called on in class
- Changing for gym
Especially for children, it’s important that you choose the right therapy and mental health professional. Take care to choose someone with experience in treating children and make sure you have a good overview of the treatment plan. Successful treatment takes time and energy, and a supportive, understanding and accepting attitude is paramount.
With stressful times like these, pressure coming from school and other daily life activities, anxiety relief has never been more important.
Take care,
I was reading through some of the posts and I was wondering if you practice these yourself or are you getting these from a book? I do a lot of reading and practice myself and I just wonder if you are a freelancer or you really know that of which you speak. I know all of us as consumers have to be wary of what we read on the internet and take heed that not everything intelligently written is good for us. This is not meant to undermine the mission of your work, but in simpler terms are we not just reading in blind faith? And that’s if we believe? And if we believe, it’s because we have already done our homework in these areas? I know this is not a substitute for medical advice and should be taken with a grain of salt, like “things to make our day go better”, since there are no credentials. Can you see my curiousities with an open mind? I think it is overall interesting and “eye-opening”. Doing my own research does validate some of what you say but I suppose since this is such a litigious society, you can not support your sight with credentials. However, thank you for exposing the masses to knowledge that may otherwise have gone unknown.
~Madeline
Hey Madeline,
Thanks for your great comment, a curious mind is a wonderful thing and i’m glad you are curious! Like you said, my main goal is anxiety awareness. I’m not a professional psychologist or medical doctor. And don’t worry, i’m not just getting this out a book. I take this very seriously and do much research myself. I use what I learned during my studies about the human mind, psychology and hypnotherapy and what i know from past experience.
About blind faith, with medical doctors and psychologists its often the same. Its amazing how little psychologists actually know about the workings of the human mind. I’ve seen it myself. If you think about it, when you go to the hospital, you trust what the doctor tells you, but he or she is not perfect and doesn’t know everything. When i hear some stories people tell me about their experiences i get pretty frustrated. Sometimes you can’t get around it, but i believe the person who should take care of your health is always yourself.
The things i write about here, either work for you or don’t. I just want to help as many people as i can, and bring awareness to everyone.
I’m glad you wrote your comment, its always nice to have some feedback, especially by someone who does her homework