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Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Children with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) experience repeated fears and worries and find it difficult to control and overcome them.
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Panic Disorder
Characterized by recurring panic attacks and anxiety that may lead to more and escalated panic attacks.
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Child Separation Anxiety
When a child suffers with excessive anxiety regarding separation from home or from people to whom it has a strong emotional attachment (mother, father, siblings, grandparents etc).
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Social Anxiety Disorder
Fear of being embarrassed in social situations such as speaking in class or eating in public. Typical age of onset is 13
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
A result of a traumatic event that leads to a psychological trauma.
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Obsessive - Compulsive Disorder
Characterized by intrusive anxiety producing thoughts, repetitive behaviors or by combining these two - thoughts (obsessions) and behaviors (compulsions).
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Dental Anxiety - Strategies to relieve anxiety
Dental anxiety is commonplace among c hildren. Nearly 20 % of school age children are afraid of dentists .Treating child ren with dental anxiety presents a real challenge to dental clinicians.
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Causes of Anxiety Disorders
You may be asking yourself, “Why does my child suffer with panic attacks? Is it something hereditary or is it the way my child is brought up? |
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