Parents' Key to Preventing Children Anxiety Attacks

By Garyl Hany

One of the most painful things that parents feel is when they see their child suffering from anxiety attacks for a couple of minutes or even a few hours. This hurts more since parents would want to protect their children from the pressures of life like stress and worry. Sadly though, children are also prone to panic attacks. But unlike panic disorders in adults, panic attacks in children are different.

There must be different reasons why children suffers from panic attacks and it is imperative that parents know these reasons as this is the only way that their children's anxiety attack can be treated. You can do this by assessing your child's behavior and determining events that might have caused your child's change in behavior.

Parents may want their children safe from stress and worries. Sadly, there are situations or events that can still pressure and stress a child without the knowledge of the parent. And because of pressures and tensions, a child can experience anxiety attacks.

Unfortunately though, there are also parents who are the reason for the pressure and the tension that children feel. Some parents want to brag about their kids. And this actually put more pressure to the child to please their parents by becoming the best of everything just so their parents have something to brag about. Due to competition from other parents, they would actually demand so much from children without realizing that they are actually robbing the childhood years of their children.

Instead of enjoying their time as a child, free from worries, children spend more time practicing, studying, etc. Though practicing and studying are good but what is not good is that children spend too much time practicing and studying that they actually don't have time to play anymore. And most of all, because children want to please their parents, too much practicing and studying can actually instill to the child that he or she is unwanted unless he or she is the number one in class, the best athlete, or whatever best title the child can ever have.

And because children are still very innocent, they will usually keep their feelings from their parents, in turn the children fails to cope with the pressures and tensions that they receive from their parents. And by keeping these lonely feelings, children built up more tension and thereby developing anxiety attacks.

These built up tension and stress lead to children having episodes of intense fear for no specific reason but are triggered by physical reactions that are very severe. Though anxiety attacks in children are also caused by trauma in their life or painful events in the past, leading to the development of phobia to certain things associated with the trauma.

Though not all anxiety attacks are due to trauma or stress, panic disorder can also be due to genetic. Usually children with relatives that has suffered from panic attacks are actually more prone to having anxiety attacks themselves. Or this can also be due to their biological make-up wherein chemicals in their bodies may have negative reactions to their nervous system, thereby signaling the brain to react with anxiety attacks. Or this can also be due to diseases.

So if you want, as a parent, to prevent your children from having anxiety attacks. It would be best if you spend more time with your children instead of pushing your children to do something they don't want to do. And most importantly, give the understanding, care and support that your child needs. - 29881

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