Children, like adults, are prone to depression. According to psychologists, children suffer from nervousness more often than adults. And neuroses adults, as we all know from childhood.
What experiences fear baby?
One of the first fears that appear in children aged 7-8 months is the absence of the mother. The child feels upset when mom goes somewhere, even briefly. In 2-3 years, the child is the fear of pain, doctors, as well as fear of fabulous images, representing the evil. Fear onto the pot may have crumbs in 2-3 years. This is considered normal fears for this age group.
What fears are symptoms of nervous disorder?
Phobia is an intense, unrealistic fear, which can interfere with the ability to socialize, work and interact with people and objects in everyday life. It is bound to a specific object, person or situation. Phobia is fear that has become obsessive. The child becomes insecure, silent or, on the contrary, short-tempered and aggressive. On the one hand, he understands the groundlessness of his fear, and with another - just can't get rid of it.
Phobias can be different. The most common - claustrophobia (fear of enclosed spaces), sociophobia (fears associated with communication), nosophobia (fears of various diseases).
As you know, dear parents, in this example, the phobia is already a symptom of neurosis. The development of neurotic fears in children can be caused genetically. Therefore, parents with anxiety and doubtful character traits should be particularly attentive to their children. No less important, and good, friendly atmosphere in the family. For the mental health of the child is not only how parents treat him, but their relationship to each other. In order for the child entrenched fear, not mandatory scandals, it is important that the mother was constantly nervous.
How to help your child?
Neurotic fears sustainable. They are accompanied by palpitations, fever, chills, insomnia, loss of appetite. It is very important at the first such manifestations to address to the psychologist or the psychotherapist. 3-month rate is usually sufficient to mind the baby came back to normal.
But! Before writing the child on reception to the psychologist, talk to him. If the child understands the groundlessness of its fears and wants to get rid of them, it's all right, most likely case in which the ordinary neurosis. But if the kid is convinced that he has a real reason to fear (for example, they swear under their bed lives the monster that every night strangling them) and at the same time the child is really to face the symptoms of fear - pallor, palpitations, then perhaps everything is much more complicated and we are talking about the so-called delusional fears.
Signs and causes of phobias
The child becomes suspicious, constantly notes the hostile attitude on the part of others, is trying to defend against them. Such fears are particularly dangerous and require immediate treatment to a neuropsychiatrist. And, the sooner you seek help, the more likely that in the future the child will be in order.
All the fears of a child derived from the environment in which he lives. Very often we as parents nurture them. Psychologists know that the fears of darkness and loneliness often appear and reach painful acuity in those children whose mothers alarming. Children are sensitive enough to catch maternal anxiety, perceive it as sound. Children's fear in this case is reconsidered anxiety of the mother. On the contrary, if the mother is confident and optimistic, her children are less and less likely to suffer fears.
Strong fears suffer the children who grow up in the hands of several women at once: not only mothers, but also grandmothers, aunts. Less and less fears vulnerable to those kids who have a permanent children.
Provokes children's fears and increased parental care. Excessive concern adults unwittingly emphasize the weakness and vulnerability of the child. Sometimes children makes timid inconsistent educational policies parents, their constant fluctuations, uncertainty in the rightness of their actions. The child in this case may not perceive their parents as a secure base.
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