What are the manifestations of anxiety disorders in young children?

Anxiety disorders not only cause great psychological harm to patients, therefore** anxiety disorders should not be hesitated, there are many harms of anxiety disorders, it will not only endanger people's health, but also cause other physical and mental diseases, such as high blood pressure, heart disease, gastrointestinal diseases, etc.

It should be fully recognized that anxiety disorder is not an organic disease and has no direct threat to human life, so patients should not have any mental pressure and psychological burden; Learn how to correctly deal with various emergencies and enhance psychological defense. Cultivate a wide range of interests and hobbies to make you feel open-minded and cheerful.

To build confidence in overcoming the disease, the patient should firmly believe that what he is worried about does not exist at all, and that the disease is completely okay with the appropriate **; Where possible, seek the attention and support of family, co-workers, and the organization to address specific issues that can cause anxiety.

Xuanwu Hospital Wang Hongxing What are the symptoms of anxiety disorders.

Childhood anxiety disorder is a common childhood mood disorder, with fear and anxiety as the main clinical manifestations, this fear has no specific direction, but always feels that something ominous is about to happen, as if a catastrophe is coming and panic all day. Mood disorders are the main symptoms of anxiety disorders in children, often co-occurring with symptoms such as fear and obsessive-compulsion, accompanied by autonomic symptoms and motor restlessness.

The anxiety manifestations of different children differed in three aspects: subjective experience, restless behavior, and physiological response.

In general, children with anxiety are mostly restless and irritable, and they are "unhappy children" and "difficult children".

Young children: Due to imperfect language development, children with anxiety cannot express their anxiety and panic well, and young children are crying and are not easy to comfort; Older children can express fearful inner experiences, but they often complain about their parents and their surroundings for small things, and are always unhappy and dissatisfied.

Timidity and fear: More anxious children often have timidity and fear at the same time, such as not daring to walk on the dark road, not daring to stay alone indoors, walking back and forth restlessly, not feeling at ease, and repeatedly checking.

Sensitivity to changes in the environment: anxiety increases when the environment changes, such as children who become more likely to cry, get angry, and have a reduced appetite after changing the environment.

Sleep disorders: such as difficulty falling asleep, light sleep, restless sleep, easy awakening, night terrors.

Disorders of excretory habits: such as bedwetting, diapers, etc., and some anxious children are entangled with their parents.

School-age children: anxiety can be manifested as restlessness in class, inability to sit still, irritability, easy to conflict with classmates and teachers, low learning efficiency, decreased academic performance, some dare not speak in public, dare not face each other face to face problems, red faces, helplessness, sweating, not fluent in speech, and some anxious children are manifested as refusal to go to school, skipping school, running away from home, and wandering.

Autonomic dysfunction: The physiological response phenomenon of anxiety disorder in children is more prominent, and at the same time as the anxiety attack, the sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves are excited, resulting in autonomic dysfunction symptoms (such as chest tightness, palpitations, rapid breathing, increased blood pressure, early awakening, dreaminess, etc.).

Children under 6 years of age show persistent or recurrent fear and/or avoidance of strangers, accompanied by normal selective attachment to parents or other familiar people, and fear and avoidance of seeing people beyond the normal limits of the child's age.

Psychological counseling is the use of psychological theories and methods to help clients discover their own problems and their root causes, tap their own potential, change the original cognitive structure and behavior, and maintain mental health.

Finally, choosing a suitable psychological counselor is an important guarantee for the effectiveness of psychological counseling, so please choose carefully.