I really don't know what to do. My DD is 6 and is suffering from really bad anxiety. She gets so anxious about everything. She worries that we will get locked in the car or a toilet cubicle, she worries that if we are going out for a meal that there will not be enough room for us all to sit, if she needs cream on for a skin complaint she cries and hides, if she needs her nails cutting she gets really upset and so on. She is reluctant to go to school/swimming/dancing and I have to hand her over to a teacher as she cries and wants me to stay with her. When I try to talk to her about it she just says that she misses me and gets scared when I'm not there.
Her teachers say that she is fine and very happy within minute of me leaving and she is almost always disappointed when I come to collect her! Every week she comes home from dancing saying that she really enjoyed it and won't worry next week, but she does.
The only time she seem happy and relaxed is when she is at home playing with her toys or colouring in, or playing out with the children on our street.
I'm not sure who to turn to in the first instance for help. Is this something a GP could help with, or the school nurse? Any advice would be really helpful I just want my happy girl back. She seems so sad.
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Anxiety in 6 year old DD
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toffeefee · 23/06/2013 21:29
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