Karen Young

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 084: Karen Young of Hey Sigmund Talks About Anxiety in Kids · 21 Nov 2017 podcast

Often kids with anxiety will be depressed.

There'll be a lot of what ifs.

So, mom, what if you're late to pick me up?

What if I go to the party and no one wants to talk to me?

What if something happens to you on the way home?

So, there's a lot of what ifs and there's a lot of, you know, they'll want to talk about this sometimes and that's their brain thinking ahead.

Anxiety happens.

Anxiety is a brain that lives a little bit too much in the future or a lot in the future thinking about the what ifs.

So look for the physical symptoms.

Look for the kids who will ask about the what ifs.

Now, sometimes they can be the life of the party.

They might be the class clown.

And that's another way to that can mask anxiety.

Another thing is to watch for really aggressive outbursts or meltdowns or tantrums.

Now, the amygdala, which is the.

one that kickstart the anxious response is in charge of emotion.

So when it's at high volume, when it's anxious, other emotions will be at high volume too.

So these might be the kids who just get really aggressive and it doesn't seem like there's much of a trigger or the kids who just want to burst into tears.

What that is, that's the amygdala driving that and that's happening with anxiety.

So if you control the anxiety...

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