Hello 🙂
Looking for some advice/reassurance about our five year old daughter. She's started with some health anxiety which we're struggling with. I'll give you some examples (none are rational but she's 5!)
'There's an eye lash in my belly'
'There's spider web on my hands'
'There's rubber in my belly'
'I've touched myself with my nail, is there a scratch?'
It doesn't stop at herself though. She's also worried about things happening to her teddies like a broken eye or them getting a hole in (which hasn't happened but she's convinced has).
She's struggled with homeschooling and I think it's manifesting this way but we don't really know how to help her. We've tried reassuring her but it doesn't help. She will go on about it all day sometimes. I don't want this to turn into a bigger problem 😞
I'm hoping when she goes back to school it will help. She's usually such a cheery, no worries kind of child and we hate seeing her like this.
Any advice or just reassurance that this is normal would be great.