Often a child’s emotional state manifests in symptoms associated with the body, such as migraines, stomachache, or panic attacks. This happens when children have become so split off from their real feelings that they have overloaded their body with unexpressed emotion. They may have become so overwhelmed in the role of pleasers or overachievers—or, in contrast, as rebels and “bad children”—that they finally collapse, with their body bearing the brunt of the collapse.
