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February 1st, 2010
Symptoms of a stressed child

Everyone experience stress at some time in their life. Adults are normally able to analyze their feelings as being stress-related while, children is a different story all together. A child can experience severe anxiety over things that seem trivial to parents. Behavior that drives parents up the wall can often be tell-tale symptoms of a child that is stressed.

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Physical symptoms

  • Eating habits that change. For example lack of appetite or overeating.
  • Headaches.
  • Stomach aches. It could be a vague complaint of pain or severe symptoms like diarrhea or vomiting.
  • Difficulty breathing.
  • Tiredness.
  • Sleep disturbances like nightmares or grinding their teeth while asleep.
  • New or recurrent bed wetting.
  • Stuttering.
  • Other physical symptoms without physical illness.

Behavioral  or emotional symptoms

  • Anxiety.
  • Phobias such as fear of the dark, fear of  strangers or fear of being alone.
  • Separation anxiety (unwillingness to let you out of their sight) or clingy behavior.
  • Worries.
  • Uncommunicative or withdrawn.
  • Nightmares or crying in their sleep.
  • Inability to relax.
  • Anger.
  • Tantrums.
  • Whining and crying.
  • Inability to control emotions.
  • Unwillingness to participate in activities at school or home.
  • Stubborn behavior can be a child’s effort to gain some control over his world and circumstances.
  • Regression to behavior that is typical of  when they were younger.
  • Destructive behavior towards themselves or others. Pulling out their own hair or hurting others.
  • Poor concentration is one of the first symptoms of stress and creates a negative cycle when it comes to school work and academic performance,
  • Forgetfulness is normally due to the brain being so overloaded with stress that is struggles to retrieve data.

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