Hi everyone - long time lurker and first time poster so please be gentle!! ;)
My daughter has always been a sensitive soul - she gets very emotional, sometimes for no reason but just recently she seems to have got a lot worse. We've noticed that in the last 2-3 weeks she has developed what seems to be a nervous habit of shrugging her shoulders and lifting up the back of her top. I have told her not to do it (although Ive stopped this now as I think im making it worse) but I dont even think she realises shes doing it. When I first noticed it, it seemed few and far between but the last few days it's happening every minute or so (sometimes more frequent).
I dont have any other concerns with her development or behaviour - in fact I'd say she was pretty advanced for her age, but to see her like this is really upsetting as I feel shes anxious/stressed out about something and its manifesting itself as a tic.
Does anyone else have experience of this in a three year old - I've tried to chat to my daughter about it and tried to reassure her but I dont know whats wrong and she at the age where shes still struggling with understanding emotions etc.