Tag: #children #anxiety
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I Need You to Understand Why I’m So Sensitive to Everything
So please, have some understanding for me when I say I need some space. I often make the mistake of holding out too long, pushing myself too far and ending up over the emotional edge because I didn’t stop and recognize what my body and brain were trying to tell me before it was too…
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Alexithymia: The Emotion-Processing Dysfunction That Makes It Hard to Identify Emotions
The article:https://themighty.com/2019/10/alexithymia-cant-identify-emotions/?utm_source=newsletter_mental_health&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_mental_health_2019-11-09&$deep_link=true At some point in our lives, most of us have answered the question, “How are you?” with an honest, “I don’t know.” It’s natural to struggle with knowing how we really feel from time to time. Sometimes life is going so fast that we don’t have a moment to slow down and check in with…
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Children use those phrases to say they are anxious
Source: https://themighty.com/2017/12/anxiety-as-a-child-kid-signs-phrases-code-words-anxious/ As children, it can often be difficult to effectively communicate what we’re feeling. We might think whatever’s going on in our head is “normal,” so asking for help never even crosses our minds. Or maybe because we didn’t quite understand what was going on, we did the best we could in those moments…