DS10 read couple of world war2 books in recent couple of months (War of the Worlds, The kingdom by the sea - robert westall) and "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy " and its been 25 days he stopped reading ( we stopped giving these books at first instance of anxiety/fear), but he is still worried about fighter plane sound passing by , any kind of noise, brightness difference in Sun etc. We have been counseling him ( parental counseling telling we also had these fears when we were kids etc.) but looks like he has taken all this really to heart. His fears are below ( he starts crying and thinks that these will really happen )
- Earth will be destroyed ( concept in "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" where they destroy earth to build some space Over-bridge or something like that).
- What if "if Earth stops rotating".
- What if "If Sun dies"
- What if another courtly declares war and throws Atom bombs
- What if terrorist attacks his school.
- What if "If he gets lost and bad people catch him"
- what if "if he forgets some musical notes in his Piano Exam"
- What if he gets some disease like "cancer"
- Last Piano class he forgot one note and he got anxiety attacks thinking he has got "meningitis" ( he studied about diseases recently in details in his science curriculum).
etc..
I thought it will get over but looks like there are always some new new kind of worried/fear keep bothering him once we talk about one and give our reasoning but at times he doesn't get convince and keep getting same fear ( he will get some disease) and says "he is still not convinced with our reasoning". These things mostly happen in evening/night time and because of that his sleep is getting disturbed as he sleeps around 11-11:30pm as we keep talking to him and counseling him( can't make him sleep forcefully once he starts crying ). he at times gets cold/hot flashes, a li'l high pulse , some nerve pain, stomach pain etc. because of all this stress. Has any child gone through this ? pls. advice what to do ? is it because of some deficiency or signal of some other stress ?I am really worried as it is making his normal day-to-day life so miserable. We miss school at times as he would have slept very-very late in night ( 2-3 emergency visits because of all this).