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Dealing with high anxiety in 6yr old

ellasmum

Hello,

My daughter is almost 6 (friday infact!) and is awaiting assessment for possible Aspergers or ADHD....She has lots of symptoms of both, so not sure how that works!?

Currently our biggest problem is her massive anxiety levels, she gets so stressed out about lots of things, which really dont know how to tackle it! her current obsession is about getting locked in places!? she is terrified of lifts, automatic doors, just shutting a door to a room which has a lock on it gets her panicking! she has huge seperation issues with me too....

She has awful trouble getting to sleep at night, which is making things worse as she is overtired and so uncooperative and highly strung the next day!

Any suggestions on how we can help her??

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  • Thanks for your reply Hope,

    I also suffer from OCD and had CBT for it, can it be used for children? guess they must have similar things for children.

    Its quite confusing for us, as we dont yet have a diagnosis so we see this often bossy, loud little girl who literally doesnt stop talking suddenly withdraw and becoming obsessive, nervous, panicky.. We are careful not to push her into things as I know how hard that can be. I try to talk through 'worse case' scenarios with her, to try and help her think through situations when she is calm and can see things more clearly.

    Hoping her assessment doesnt take too long to come through, then at least we will be better equipped to support her!

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  • Thanks for your reply Hope,

    I also suffer from OCD and had CBT for it, can it be used for children? guess they must have similar things for children.

    Its quite confusing for us, as we dont yet have a diagnosis so we see this often bossy, loud little girl who literally doesnt stop talking suddenly withdraw and becoming obsessive, nervous, panicky.. We are careful not to push her into things as I know how hard that can be. I try to talk through 'worse case' scenarios with her, to try and help her think through situations when she is calm and can see things more clearly.

    Hoping her assessment doesnt take too long to come through, then at least we will be better equipped to support her!

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