What are the symptoms of anxiety disorders in children?

Anxiety disorder is the most common disease in our lives and often occurs in adults. The pressure from work and life is often the cause of anxiety. But many people wonder why children who should be carefree also suffer from anxiety disorders? In fact, there are quite a few children suffering from anxiety disorders nowadays. So what are the manifestations of anxiety disorders in children?

Childhood anxiety disorder has a very serious impact on the child's growth. It not only affects the child's psychology and interpersonal relationships, but also places a heavy burden on parents. What are the symptoms of anxiety disorders in children? 1. Children have been excessively worried about certain events and activities, such as academic performance, for most of the time in the past 6 months. 2. Children often feel restless or nervous, which is one of the easiest symptoms of childhood anxiety. 3. Frequent fatigue, difficulty concentrating, blank mind, irritability, muscle tension, sleeping problems: difficulty falling asleep, unstable or uneasy sleep. These are all signs of anxiety in children. 4. The content of the anxiety and worry is not characteristic of other disorders. In other words, children's anxiety and worries are not about bacterial infections, panic attacks, public embarrassment, weight gain, serious illnesses, etc. To sum up, the above are common manifestations of childhood anxiety. Since children are generally young, they do not care much about their own behavior, and will not tell adults even if they suffer from anxiety. Therefore, as parents, you must do a good job of prevention in this regard. Once you find that your child has the above abnormalities, you should consider taking your child to the hospital for treatment in time.

Children with anxiety disorders should pay attention to the following: In summer, they must eat light food and not too greasy food. Eating too greasy food will make the body fat and the mind easily fatigued, which is not good for the disease. Therefore, they cannot eat fried, grilled, sweets, etc.; they cannot touch too cold food, otherwise the various organs of the body will not be able to bear it. They can eat some things that can relieve heat and calm the nerves, such as chrysanthemum tea, honeysuckle tea, mung bean soup or fruits with high water content. People with cold stomach can drink more boiled water. People with weak body can eat some white fungus, lotus seeds or lilies, which can replenish qi; don't exercise too vigorously at ordinary times, you can do soothing exercises, which are good for the body. Tai Chi, Qigong or Yuanji dance are all good meditation exercises, which can relax the muscles and promote blood circulation. Good for children's diseases.

As people's life pressure continues to increase, the number of people suffering from anxiety disorders is also increasing. Many children are also troubled by anxiety disorders due to heavy academic workload, increasing pressure from their parents' expectations. Therefore, parents should create a relaxed environment for their children, not put too much pressure on their children, and communicate more with their children so that their children can grow up happily.