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Topic: Is Your Child Suffering from Anxiety Disorder?
Child Anxiety
Is Your Child Suffering from Anxiety Disorder?
Child anxiety is very common indeed, but also very successfully treated. About 1 - 2% of children suffer from child anxiety before they reach adolescence. Child anxiety may be accompanied by depression, sadness, withdrawal, or the unrealistic fear that a family member might die. Child anxiety attacks are not only possible, they are probably happening more than doctors realize. This condition seems to especially effect teenagers and can persist into young adulthood.
Fear of strangers, or stranger anxiety is not usually displayed until an infant is at least 6 months old. Before 6 months of age most infants do not recognize the difference between adults. Fear of being alone, is afraid of the dark or afraid of certain animals may be reflections of events with bad memories.
Separation anxiety disorder and specific phobias are more common in children about 6 to 9 years old. Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and social anxiety disorder are more common in middle childhood and adolescence; panic disorder can occur in adolescence, too. Separation anxiety often means children are afraid to be alone, sometimes following their parents around the house, balking at going to school or even having a baby sitter. Generalized anxiety disorder patients are often characterized as "worrywarts," worrying about the future and the past to a problematic degree.
CBT is not the only therapy, it is just the best researched therapy. We know children who receive it generally make improvements. CBT aims to help children change how they think and how they behave in order to help them overcome their anxiety problems.
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