3 different types of children’s anxiety symptoms

Anxiety disorders take control over a person, and make him helpless, and feel, lonely. The situation becomes worse with children since they cannot distinguish fears that can be overcome.

An In-depth look in to different aspects of children’s anxiety

(1) Separation anxiety is the earliest type of children’s anxiety observed between 18 months to three years. They cling to their mothers and cannot sleep in their rooms. It is really a fight when the child reaches the school going age. Patents should manage the problem before that stage.

(2) During the school and grade school, children are the victims of social anxiety disorders. It is a kind of separation anxiety and the child is unwilling to go to school in fear of social interactions. Here children anxiety is more focused and the child is afraid of recess, the bus or the cafeteria. Many times there is a teacher or a class bully as the root cause of the anxiety which should be properly evaluated before any intervention.

(3) Different and many aspects of the child’s life are involved in general anxiety disorders. It reaches its acme at the ages of seven to eleven years. Here it is an excessive worry of something which is trivial and silly for others. Children are more worried about their looks, sports and punctuality and cleanliness.

Particular phobias affect children and they are afraid of something or other when young. Any phobia lasting for more than six months and affecting the child’s daily routine should be viewed very seriously.

Medications, for children’s anxiety should be the last resort. They can overcome anxiety symptoms and conditions with the help of proper anxiety counseling and cooperation at school and home. They can thus spend their lives happily and without care for which they are eminently qualified.