Anxiety has become a very common thing for millions of people all across the globe. Now more children are in need of anxiety treatments at an increasing rate.

It has now become very common that when children grow up, they tend to worry about a number of things very deeply and this results in anxiety. ‘Anxiety Children’ can happen at any age. Often when a child begins school for the first time or when they score low grades, exams or relate to other children and adults. There seems to be a growing trend to medicate children without exploring all the safer and more healthy options of anxiety treatments.

There are many children who suffer from excessive shyness and they find it very difficult to adjust to new situations. Children do not always have the ability to voice their feelings and they also do not know how to cope with the situations that create fears and anxiety for them.

It is very common for a child to have fears for like ‘monsters under the bed’. And, while some children get out of this kind of fear on their own, others find it very hard.

Anxiety can be a serious problem at a young age, and when it is not handled with good anxiety treatments, it affects the child’s future happiness and physical well being.

Child Anxiety Attacks Symptoms -
These symptoms are the same as an adult. Fear is the most common symptom for a number of different kinds of things. There are many physical symptoms to this disorder in children like racing heart, difficulty in chest, numbness, stomach pain, diarrhea, nausea, headaches and shortness of breathe.

Effects of Child Anxiety -
There are many negative effects aside from panic attacks symptoms.  A child may refuse to go to school (school anxiety). They have very poor concentration and an inability to learn things. Children often get anxious due to different social situations that they find hard to adapt to and they tend to isolate themselves which can lead to larger anxiety disorders.

Child Anxiety Disorders – Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), GAD, Social Anxiety Children, Acute Stress Disorder, and Adjustment Disorders.

How Parents Can Help with Child Anxiety?

There are many wonderful anxiety treatments for children. A child with “normal” stress or anxiety can learn yoga, Thai Chi, Qigong. If they give these a chance they will thank you for the rest of their life. Children love experiencing a relaxed quit mind. If we remove the importance on winning, athletic activities that build hand to eye coordination are good anxiety treatments. Sports like gymnastics, ballet, karate and most team sports with a caring coach build their confidence for handling life’s emotional challenges.

A parent can ask the child’s doctor to recommend a therapist that can support his/her emotional aspects. Please be discerning about putting children on drugs with heavy side affects. Get a second opinion if you need to. Taking drugs for their problems could be a child’s future mind set for “how to handle problems”. If you do go with a prescription, make sure it’s temporary. Doctor’s will later instruct you on properly taking your child off medications slowly. Medications will take away the symptoms but do not eliminate the cause of anxiety. Combine working with a good child therapist by asking your doctor to refer one to handle what causes anxiety for your child.

Create a program for ” how to handle upsets.”

1.) It would been nice to have had a system for handling emotional upsets when we grew up. Like a system where you let go of upsetting events rather than establish deep life long fears.  This could be the anxiety remedy that is most rewarding for you both. Before anxiety gets “out of control,” work with your child’s imagination to come up with ideas to handle worries. They may decide to “throw worries in the toilet” or some other idea that excites your little one, thus creating their own anxiety treatments. Also check out the Panic Away program for children.

You can help your child establish a plan like this and assist them to enjoy stronger mental health and happiness.  Different kinds of therapies are used to eliminate the root cause of the problem i.e. fears that are causing children anxiety. Read about Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for your child which can give you a system for handling life upsets that carry on for your child after the therapy is complete. See our Anxiety Store for resources.

Anxiety treatments tips for parents-

2.) Parents can help their anxiety affected child in a lot of ways. If you can join your child during previously stressful events, they could feel safer and not have to run from those situations. For example, if a kind dog frightens the child,  pet the dog yourself until your child feels comfortable enough to pet the dog.  Same goes with school bullies. Make the teacher aware of the situation so she can be on the look out and discuss a plan for responding to bullies with your child. Ask how the bully makes them feel. A child needs to get more comfortable with expressing uncomfortable feelings.

3.) Be careful not to have major arguments with your spouse in front of your child. You may not know it, but stress created because of such environments in the home directly affects a child’s mind. Find time where you can sit together and listen to your child. Be careful not to judge their fears as “wrong” (fears are very “real” to them) and concentrate on letting them express their fears by listening to them.

4.)Practice not making your child wrong. We think we don’t but we often do without realizing it. When your child tells you what they did or said to a bully. Listen. Ask if that took care of the bully problem. If “no” – suggest another way for the future rather than say “You should have…”. Get the picture? Don’t make them feel they were wrong.

5.) There are huge results from anxiety treatments that call for no sugar for children suffering from anxity. Too much sugar works like a bottle of vodka for children. It makes them hyper, shaky, moody, highs and lows and then depressed and angry.  They eventually think that’s the way life is…moody, highs and lows.Parents that feed their children a stack of pancakes and then ask their child, “why are you acting this way” should read some of the hundreds of studies done on child nutrition.

It can be a constant battle saying “no” to sugar cereals, and sugar snacks, but the resulting happiness and the evenly balanced kid will be worth it. Saying, my child doesn’t have a problem with sugar is not responsible. There are no doctors or nutritionist that suggest sugar for better health.

6.) Assure them that things will turn out okay, and find examples in their life where they worried about something and yet it turned out okay. Try to make them secure at home and everywhere they go. Support them to find an exercise/sport/hobby they really enjoy.  Don’t judge their choice. Take them to recreational parks and other entertainment places but be sure not to connect “feeling worried” with getting to go to a fun park- as a reward for worry. That way they don’t learn that “being worried” gets them rewarded.

7.) making time regularly to sit and support your child through life’s stressful challenges and comforting them with your kindness and love could be the best medicine in anxiety treatments for children. see our Anxiety Store for resources to support your child.

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