What are the symptoms of dissociative anxiety disorder in children?

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Dissociative anxiety disorder in children is a common emotional disorder in childhood. When leaving home or relatives, there are paroxysmal tension, inexplicable fear and anxiety, often accompanied by dysfunction of autonomic nervous system. What are the symptoms of dissociative anxiety disorder in children? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

What are the symptoms of dissociative anxiety disorder in children?

For dissociative anxiety disorder, pediatricians should treat the disease from the perspective of developmental process. Normal dissociative anxiety first occurs at 6-8 months of age. After 3 years old, when children understand that the separation from the person they are attached to is temporary, the normal anxiety disappears. Therefore, children should be cautious in the diagnosis of the disease before 5 years old, Children 30 months ago were not diagnosed.

Separation anxiety disorder is characterized by children's anxiety when they are separated from their relatives. Most children are not willing to leave their relatives because they have no reason to worry that their relatives will leave and have dangerous or unexpected accidents,

If children do not go to kindergarten or refuse to go to school, they will cry or struggle even if they are forced to enter school. Some children will have symptoms of autonomic nervous system dysfunction, such as vomiting, abdominal pain, headache, etc. the course of disease lasts for months to years.

matters needing attention

Pay attention to children's mental health, provide mental health education consultation for mothers, eliminate bad factors in family environment or family education, overcome parents' weakness or neuroticism tendency, provide parents' biofeedback therapy (relaxation therapy), help children relax all over the body, cooperate with games and music therapy, and promote children's physical and mental health development.