Anxiety is normal but some of us have more anxiety than others. It can affect the way we think and how we play or interact with others. It can be overwhelming looking at different resources, but please take your time finding the ones that work for you.
To help keep your body and mind focused and clear, try this Two Step Program.
Here is another great link: My Care Path
Here are forms that can help your healthcare provider assess your child for underlying Anxiety or Depression.
rstanding emotional dysregulation can help parents and children.
Super brain yoga is excellent for improving concentration and fatigue. Especially good for uniquely wired children. Have them do it often in the day. Shown to improve connections in the corpus callosum – the connection between right and left brain.
Here is a link to a series of videos that help manage small Children in Distress.
http://anxietycanada.com/MindShift-CBT
Understanding Eating Disorders in Adolescence
Complex trauma and PTSD in children
There are also books – Taking charge of ADHD by Russel Barkley
Recommended books for children:
Books for parents with children with anxiety.
Taking charge of ADHD by Russel Barkley
Freeing your child from OCD by Tamar Chansky
There are many resources on this website to help for anxiety and stress. Step 2 is very important. Also have a look at Stress Anxiety and PTSD and Complex PTSD.
Medications can help depression. They have a small risk of increased suicide thoughts, but children who really need antidepressants are safer taking them than not taking them. A number of years ago when we discovered this risk of suicidal thoughts with anti-depressants, we stopped using them in children and for the next couple of years, the rates of completed suicides skyrocketed all over the world and we went back to using them.
Medications.
Learning ventral vagal breath is very important for concentration and anxiety.