Signs & Symptoms of Child Anxiety

Video Transcript

"I'm Dr. David Thomas. I'm a Practicing Psychotherapist with the Whitford Thomas Group in Tampa, Florida; here to discuss the signs and symptoms of childhood anxiety. Childhood anxiety is not uniquely different than adult anxiety. If there is a primarily difference, I would say it's in the area of acting out behaviors. Adults will tend to isolate and, and avoid a lot of behaviors. Although you oftentimes see that with, with children as well. But sometimes with children what you'll see is a more of a behavior disorder; a behavior acting out or you'll tend to see them kind of display oftentimes angry type behaviors which in fact they're very anxious. Children will oftentimes avoid as well. So often you'll see them wanting to; tend to create ailments symptoms; stomach ache, nauseous, flu-like symptoms before they go to school or before doing things that they viewed to be very difficult or, or anxious provoking. Other symptoms you'll oftentimes see with children is, as again, similar to adults just headaches and muscle aches with no clear reason for the ache; sleeping disorders, you, you tend to see with children where they have either, their sleep is disturb; meaning they have difficulty going to sleep or they wake up frequently or sometimes just sleep a lot. You know, sense of doom; a lot of fear, kind of unfounded fear; you see with childhood anxieties. Again, not much different than what you see with, with adults. Probably the primary difference is you tend to see a little more avoidance behavior and some acting out behavior. Well hopefully this information I provided you regarding childhood anxieties has been helpful. From Tampa, Florida, I'm Dr. David Thomas."