“Please Make it Go Away” – An In-Depth Look at Anxiety Disorders in Children

by Karen Gaskell

Anxiety is a normal response to stressful situations. Feeling a little nervous can keep you on your toes and encourage you to perform at your best. In contrast, a clinical anxiety disorder is unbearable, debilitating and leaves you feeling out of control. A child or teen has a 1 in 7 chance of developing an anxiety disorder.

“Please Make it Go Away” – An In-Depth Look at Anxiety Disorders in Children -- examines the mountainous impact that anxiety conditions like obsessive compulsive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, separation anxiety disorder, social phobia, post traumatic stress disorder and selective mutism can have on normal childhood development. Anxiety disorders prevent a child or teen from living life to the fullest. Fortunately treatment is available for kids with severe anxiety problems.

Only the most credible medical experts including the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychology, Anxiety Disorder Association of America, International OCD Foundation and Selective Mutism Foundation were referenced when compiling “Please Make it Go Away” – An In-Depth Look at Anxiety Disorders in Children.

16 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 11, 2012