Kids With Anxiety

Wouldn’t it be more exciting and fun if children could just sail through their life worry-free and happy? That would be mean a lot to both parents and kids. But that doesn’t stop moms and dads from getting worried and scared about their kids’ levels of anxiety attacks. In fact, according to the latest report by Kinark Child and Family Services in Ontario, 70% of Canadian parents talked and discussed about their kids’ future regarding emotional and physical well-being. These Canadian parents have good reason to get worried and scared: Anxiety disorders are the number one psychological health crisis amongst children and adolescents today.

As we all know, the faces and challenges of growing up can be quite complicated for some kids.  There are those bully fights, friendship problems even pressure in sports competitions to ever-mounting homework. These kids are normally bound to experience uneasy from time to time. A small number of tummy upset right before her piano recital may assist your child to be more focus as the increased adrenalin on her body can improve her show. But when those uneasy emotions become too deep or it happen over and over again then that is the time you need to seek medical attention.

“This type of psychological problem becomes an actual problem when it starts to interferes with your child’s sleep and daily activities such as in school work or playing with his friends,” says Jennifer Kolari, a Toronto child and family psychotherapist and initiator of Connected Parenting. If this is the case of your child, she says then now is time to get familiar with the warning signs and symptoms of your child’s suffering.  The most common signs include fast breathing, heaviness in his chest, clinginess, unexplained tummy aches.  Knowing these signs can help him to gain control on it before it fully controls him.

You have to get familiar with all of these common warning signs and symptoms before they shoot up into real kind of fright, Kolari says, for the reason that at this point, you will have a hard time talking with your child out of it. “Once this anxiety sense starts to kicks in then the thinking part of his brain might shut out any fresh and positive ideas.”

Knowing the warning signs and symptoms of anxiety in kids will not only help you get the right treatment and method that would help your child but it will also prevent your child to have severe anxiety attacks.  However it is essential that you get medical help once you notice those symptoms and signs persist.  Therapists and doctor will then run some tests on your child to determine the level of his anxiety before he gives your child the right kind of treatment that would help him feel better again.