Children Living with Anxiety Often Don’t Get the Help They Need - Healthy Tips
Heather Matz began noticing symptoms of anxiety in her daughter when she was just 4 years old.
By the time her little girl started kindergarten, she was struggling with leaving her mom every day.
She’d also cry at the end of most days when Matz picked her up.
After a series of medical issues, the anxiety Heather’s daughter was experiencing became severe.
Today, Matz told Healthline that her now 12-year-old’s anxiety “affects her sleep, her eating, her emotional state, and her physical health. She regularly has an upset stomach, abdominal pain, headaches, and insomnia. She gets worked up easily, cries regularly, and struggles with self-esteem.”
Matz’s daughter isn’t alone in her experience with anxiety.
According to a recent report released by the Child Mind Institute, anxiety affects 30 percent of children and adolescents at some point in their lives.
The institute reports a 17 percent increase in anxiety among young people over the last 10 years. And the National Institute of Mental Health reports that of those who have anxiety, 8.3 percent experience severe impairment as a result of it.
“It’s hard, because you don’t want to overdiagnose this generation with mental health conditions,” Seattle Children’s Hospital pediatrician Dr. Cora Collette Breuner told Healthline.
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