Many people often misinterpreted anxiety and fear, wherein the fact is that these two common emotions are just the same. Children with anxiety exhibit symptoms that are also present when fear is being felt. Parents must be alert at observing these symptoms in order for them to resolve while it's still earlier. There are times when the parents overreact on what their children's response on anxiety. Instead they are being comfort; they punish the child which is the worst thing to do when handling the symptoms of anxiety in children.
A child with anxiety often manifested with physical symptoms such as intense and irrational fear, headaches, nausea and vomiting, abdominal discomfort and muscle tensions. These symptoms can be an indication of other medical conditions. Parents are still responsible of noticing these symptoms for prompt management. Children with anxiety disorders often have behavioral symptoms as manifested by nervousness, jittery, irritability, inability to concentrate and hypersensitivity for no apparent reason. These symptoms are true in children with generalized anxiety disorders where they always wrap up with irrational fears and unrealistic worry about day to day life. With these symptoms manifested by children with anxiety, it can affect their lives in many aspects. Even if the children experiencing anxiety may realize that his emotions are overwhelming, they'll still have the hard time to cope their stress and tensions. Managing and controlling their exaggerated emotions are seem very difficult to do so since they are not yet capable of thinking what are the ways to handle their own problems.
This problem is also present in adult when anxious but mostly children are demonstrating these symptoms. Also, a child may have poor school performance and/or hesitate to go to school because of fear that he will be discriminated by his classmates and teacher. This behavioral problem is common among children with separation anxiety who are experiencing intense fear of being separated from their parents or caretaker. A child may afraid to participate in classroom activities and would rather to spend time alone in studying the academic subjects. This is a tough problem when dealing a child who is not open to tell his problems or what has been bothering with them. Parents may find it difficult how to handle the child's anxiety for he is keeping his own life issues.
For children with phobias, the feeling irrational fear is the always the symptom. A child becomes panicky when exposed to something that he is most afraid of. This can be object, animal, person or life events. With the tremendous fear he felt on a particular situation, he is likely to avoid it. A child's phobia is enough to cause him to manifest physical symptoms like heart palpitations; sweating; trembling; shortness of breath or even a feeling of being smothered as though one can't breathe; chest pain; dizziness; a fear of losing control and sane or even dying.
If your child is suffering from theses symptoms you may refer him to the nearest psychotherapist or pediatrician for you to be guided on what are the different approaches and therapies to manage and handle the anxiety of your child.
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Michael Workinstiney is a professional father who likes to write a lot about fatherhood and parental coaching. He likes meeting parents old and new and train them proven and effective ways of raising their children.
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