It’s not just the adults, but even children suffer from an anxiety disorder or Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD). A child suffering from anxiety disorder will be worrying a lot about one thing or the other. Be it relationships with friends, family issues, marks in class, sports performance and more.
Anxiety up to a certain level is alright but if anxiety is consistent and keeps on increasing and spreading across areas of life, its time to consult a doctor for the same. Your child could be suffering from Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD).
It is known that between 5% and 10% of the people suffer from anxiety disorders and its more common with kids having ADHD.
Symptoms
Kids with generalized anxiety disorders experience too much of fear or worries often to an immense extent. As a result they are not able to concentrate, are restless, fatigued and suffer from frequent urination, stomach aches as well as sleep difficulties.
The stress and tension are of chronic nature and do interfere and affect various areas as well as the quality of their life.
At times even the child might be able to understand the excessive anxiety issues, but might not be able to control or manage it.
Diagnosis
One of the criteria around the diagnosis of GAD is, the experience needs to last for around six months at least. A trained mental health practitioner will assess the child and work with the child around his/ her anxiety disorders.
Well, apparently GAD is more likely to affect children who have undergone challenging situations in life or have been maltreated are at a higher risk of GAD. Challenges like humiliation, cruelty, and abandonment are a few triggers that already affect adults, then children would obviously be, isn’t it? Even puberty could bring in stressors besides consistent difficulties in relationships socially as well as frustrations and school performance issues as well. Treatment plans are based on diagnosis and differ from individual to individual.
*Sourced from the Internet
