Family history is known to be a contributing factor to anxiety disorders. If someone in your family struggles with anxiety, your child is more at risk for developing an anxiety disorder. While adults learn to manage their anxiety, childhood anxiety tends to be intensified. As...
Our society often uses fear and anxiety interchangeably, although this is not always appropriate. Anxiety and fear may be interrelated, but these feelings arise for different reasons. While fear can be an adaptive response to stress, anxiety can lead to depression, low self-esteem, and unhealthy...
Very few people look back on their middle school years fondly, as it is a difficult transition socially and academically. Going from specific classrooms to class changes opens the doors for new relationships and cliques to forms. Most middle schoolers are concerned about “fitting in”...
Anxiety and depression are characterized by self-doubt and hopelessness for one’s future, which impacts one’s ability to be make concrete goals about what they want in life. It is hard enough for your anxious middle school daughter to trust that she can make it through...
While anxiety is a normal response to stressful events, a main source of anxiety for teenage girls is being anxious about being anxious and feeling like they are alone in their experience. Girls suffer more from depression and anxiety than boys because they tend to...
Because she will cause no trouble in and outside of home, a daughter with social anxiety disorder may go under the radar for a very long time. Due to the very nature of the disorder, it may take years before she is diagnosed. Shy and...
Most middle school aged girls, at one time or another, harbor some fear of rejection from their peers. They might be bashful or backward in social situations, or express worry that they in some way do not measure up to the most popular girls in...