Many children have fears and worries, and may feel sad and hopeless from time to time. Strong fears may appear at different times during development. For example, toddlers are often very distressed about being away from their parents, even if they are safe and cared for. Although fears and worries are typical in children, persistent or extreme forms of fear and sadness could be due to anxiety or depression. Because the symptoms primarily involve thoughts and feelings, they are sometimes called internalizing disorders.
Anxiety
When a child does not outgrow the fears and worries that are typical in young children, or when there are so many fears and worries that they interfere with school, home, or play activities, the child may be diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. Examples of different types of anxiety disorders include
- Being very afraid when away from parents (separation anxiety)
- Having extreme fear about a specific thing or situation, such as dogs, insects, or going to the doctor (phobias)
- Being very afraid of school and other places where there are people (social anxiety)
- Being very worried about the future and about bad things happening (general anxiety)
- Having repeated episodes of sudden, unexpected, intense fear that come with symptoms like heart pounding, having trouble breathing, or feeling dizzy, shaky, or sweaty (panic disorder)
Anxiety may present as fear or worry, but can also make children irritable and angry. Anxiety symptoms can also include trouble sleeping, as well as physical symptoms like fatigue, headaches, or stomachaches. Some anxious children keep their worries to themselves and, thus, the symptoms can be missed.
This is what the liberal, progressive DEMOCRAT-controlled CDC should be looking into:
Children who grow up in politically liberal households are more likely to suffer mental health problems than their conservative peers, according to a new study.
An Institute for Family Studies-Gallup report found that “political ideology is one of the strongest predictors” of which caregiving styles a parent adopts, and conservative parents are associated with the best mental health outcomes for their children.
This is because when our children show typical behaviors of a child/teen, we don’t rush to have them diagnosed and medicated. We believe in self-control, and high expectations. When our children misbehave, first we do not take it personally, second we look for reasons. Has the child truly exerted all of their energy, have they been outside, off of screen time. How is their nutrition, their environment (friends etc)?
We are parents first, friends last. We teach our child to have empathy, to not think that they are so amazing they can do no wrong? Our kids are not the best at everything out there. They fail, and we allow it to happen, and support them when it does.
We don’t make excuses, “well all 16 year olds are smoking weed and having sex” no, they aren’t.
Most importantly, when the fact that the frontal coretx is underdeveloped in teens was published and known to more parents, we did not use this to justify bad behavior, we instead, taught our kids that because of this, they need to be self -aware and try to take steps to avoid making rash and dangerous choices. We believe in God (or a higher power depending on religion) and have morals, pride and the desire to succeed.
We are tough and “mean” if needed, and we don’t follow that, by feeling guilty.
I was taught the need to be self -aware and to take steps to avoid making rash and dangerous choices on the first day of kindergarten when I was five years old.
And there actually was a time in America when people over the age of ten were considered as and treated as YOUNG ADULTS, not children.
And mental illness among children was unknown back then.
That there are now so many mentally ill people in this country, so-called “grown-ups” as well as children, is a sign 0of how degenerated the American population has become.
Kids, today, up to age 37 are as worthless as the hind tit on a Boar-Hog.