Overcoming Anxiety

Stress, Anxiety and Their Causes in Children and Teens

September 19th, 2007

Anxiety and stress in children and teens is as prevalent as it is in the case of adults. the high stress modern lifestyle and work culture of today force parents to neglect their children and parents are not emotionally available to their offspring’s which spurs stress and anxiety disorders in their children. One of the reasons could also be parents not able to cope up with the stress of daily life and they themselves could be suffering from some sort of an anxiety disorder. Stressed children often are found to be emotionally unstable, aggressive in nature are very shy and do not enjoy most of the times the activities which are otherwise enjoyable. Anxiety disorders and excessive levels of stress often affect a child’s performance.

There are some general [points that both parents and a child can go through to cope with stress and anxiety

1. There has to be a good level of communication between the child and his parents about the happenings of life. the child should be free in expressing his thoughts and parents must try to give out some possible solutions to the child’s problem and make him note it down somewhere so that the child can develop and apply these strategies to cope with similar sort of situations some time later.
2. It is very important to encourage a child so that he develops a positive attitude towards things and is confident about the things he does.
3. Parents should never overburden their children and let the child cope with the pace of life in a natural way and not expect the child to come first in all the aspects of life.
4. Parents should set good examples of conduct and behavior for their children.

Adolescence Stress

Children in their adolescence period grow up physically very fast but their mental growth is not in proportion to their physical growth and hence they have many problems such as an identity crisis, to make choices about the good and bad things of life, choices about drinking, sex, smoking etc. children are often ill equipped to handle these situations of life.

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